The concept of the “Soundscapes” includes all of the sounds in
one’s environment and focuses not only on the sounds itself.
Instead, it focuses on the interrelationships between person and
activity and place, both in space and time. Soundscape also include
influences on the acoustic environment through auditory sensation,
its interpretation, and the responses to the acoustic environment
in context. The conceptual framework of Soundscape describes the
“process of perceiving or experiencing and/or understanding an
acoustic environment, highlighting general concepts and their
relationships: context, sound sources, acoustic environment,
auditory sensation, interpretation of auditory sensation,
responses, and outcomes” (International Organization for
Standardization, ISO 12913-1:2014 Acoustics Soundscape Part
Definition and Conceptual Framework, ISO, Geneva, 2014). With
soundscape, one achieves a deeper understanding of acoustic
environment and its effects on people. The ISO standard
12931-1 on soundscape provides an important, and rigorous,
distinction in the use of “Soundscape.” But, it is recognizable
that some individuals, particularly planners, designers, lay
persons, and even those primarily interested in management of the
acoustic environment through environmental noise control, will find
it convenient to use “Soundscape” as a synonym for the physical
acoustic environment. When it comes to noise management and urban
planning, soundscape research has the potential to promote healthy
urban environments by sharing and incorporating the significant
knowledge of all concerned parties. Understandably, this shows that
the communication with regard to noise management has to be forced
to guarantee that the specifics of Soundscapes (i.e., the relevance
of perception) are seriously considered alongside the whole. This
book will bridge the gap between soundscape theory and practice and
therefore it will be different from our earlier
publications as “Soundscape and the built environment” (ed. by
J. Kang and B. Schulte-Fortkamp CRC Press, Taylor and Francis
Group, Boca Raton, Fl 2016) and also from the respective
Special Issues on Soundscapes in 2012 in The Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America (ed. by B. Schulte-Fortkamp and J.
Kang), and also the Special Issue in Acta Acustica 2006 *(ed. by B.
Schulte-Fortkamp and D. Dubois), and the E-book on
soundscape This volume will be driven by the difficult
process of standardization of Soundscape and its evaluation
procedures. The main goal of the proposed volume is to present and
review the developments in Soundscape, reflecting the
standardization procedure and the diverse inputs. the
needs in management and planning in urban acoustic environments,
the book will also focus on the difficulties, as well as the
solutions, in interdisciplinary grounded communication, that is, on
the one hand, related to science, but on the other to application,
that needs guidance.
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