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Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Noise Pollution in Residential Areas of Ranya (2024–2025)
Shamal Star Ahmad, Sakar Muhammad Hassan
Currently, noise is considered a part of environmental pollution problems due to increasing factors, sources and negative results, it should be given importance. We obtained some neighborhoods in Ranyia as a sample at different seasons of the year, according to working days, holidays during periods (day, night), and compared the samples with local criteria. We noticed that the noise level residential areas had exceeded the local criteria. However, we found that noise level was different comparing one neighborhood to another one. Having stated that, the highest level observed was in Sara neighborhood in the city center and the lowest level was in Bitwan neighborhood in the outer part of the city. Climatic Influence including seasonal climatic conditions played a significant role in noise level fluctuations. Spring, characterized by more favorable weather, corresponded with increased human activity and mobility, thereby resulting in elevated noise levels. Conversely, winter conditions were associated with reduced outdoor activity, leading to a notable decline in noise levels. At the end of our research, we have come to find that in order to stop noise pollution levels and their impacts from getting worse and to help lower them, we have come up with several suggestions, such as raising awareness among people, monitoring and enforcing noise laws and rules.
Volume 9 · Issue 3 · June 2022A Geographical Analysis for the Environmental Consequences of the Tourism Activities in Dukan District
Shkur Selam Saleem, Luqman Usw Omer
The aim behind writing this research is to point out the environmental issues of the area which has resulted from the tourism activities, that is to say, it is to indicate the type and size of the environmental damage. In this respect, suitable solutions for environmental issues resulted from the tourism activities in the district have been suggested. In the research, it has been found that tourism activities are one of the forms of environmental issues and pollution in the area. This is due to the burden of the tourism activities in some particular areas of the district, sometimes it has become a threat to the environment of the destruct, the pollution of the tourism sites by solid, liquid and food waste and littering of visitors which caused land, and visual pollution by leaving various waste types in the streets and view of the tourism sites in the district. In addition to that, the issue of noise pollution by the deficiency of traffic system, congestion and overcrowding, the narrowness of the streets in the season of tourism caused noise pollution. Above all, some other environmental issues which resulted in tourism projects ,such as agricultural land losses which is only during(10 ) years approximately(6253) dunams converted for tourism purposes.