Wired for Silence

di K Balachander (Autore)

KBC LLC, 2026

Noise is the only major pollutant America agreed to stop regulating. Particulate matter got a federal agency. Lead got a threshold. Secondhand smoke got a compliance regime. Sound got an annoyance survey — and then, in 1981, the office responsible for it got defunded. The law that created it is still on the books. It just has no one left to enforce it, and it quietly bars states from stepping in. This book asks what fifty years of silence has cost. Not metaphorical silence — the actual absence of a federal noise policy, and the exposure–response curves that have piled up in its place, linking traffic noise to hypertension, heart disease, fragmented sleep, and children who can't hold a sentence in their heads long enough to read it. Two fields have been building the case in isolation: acoustic ecologists mapping soundscapes from national parks to the ocean floor, and epidemiologists tracking populations exposed to decades of highway and runway noise. Neither has the full picture. This book audits both — endpoint by endpoint, testing dose-response, reversibility, and mechanism — to show exactly which claims about noise and the brain hold up, which don't yet, and who is sitting on the data that would settle it.

• Autore: K Balachander
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: KBC LLC
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237440188