Noise Pollution and the Enforcement of Environmental Laws in Addis Ababa: The Practice and Challenges
| dc.contributor.advisor | Muleta PhD, Shiferaw | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shibeshi, Mekonnen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-24T09:45:00Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T08:42:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-07-24T09:45:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T08:42:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Nowadays, along with air and water pollution; noise pollution also hits the public life and creates problems to the normal life. Noise: which implies to ‘unwanted sound’ or ‘sound that is loud, unpleasant or unexpected, has an impact on human health and environment. According to WHO standards, noise level beyond 90 decibel damages to health and ontological (ear diseases) effects. It is a distracter that prohibits us from performing at optimum ability, reduces the quality of life, and in cases, it may cause irreversible loss of hearing. The primary objective of this study is to assess the main sources and impacts of noise pollution and examine the implementation of environmental pollution control laws in Addis Ababa. The central issues of this study is identifying whether the regulatory organs regulating noise pollutions are properly enforcing the relevant laws or not. The subjects of this study were environmental experts those working under the regulatory organs at various governmental levels including those working in Federal FECCC, AAEPA and each sub city environmental protection office in Addis Ababa. Data were collected by using a structured survey questionnaire and analyzed by descriptive methods. The findings of the study show that different sources have contributed for generation of noise pollution. These include: noise level generated from night clubs, bar, restaurants, religious places, industry, vehicles and so on so forth. The findings also indicate that the noise level released from night clubs, bar and restaurants are beyond the permitted standards. Sounds released from religious places with microphone are very high and noisy. But most of the complaints are associated to night clubs, bar and restaurants. The regulatory organs take only the administrative measures such as giving of warning notice sealing, relocating and so forth. No polluters brought to the court either in civil or criminal suit based on environmental pollution control proclamation number 300/2002 or criminal law of Ethiopia’s the results of this study have shown | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/21976 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sound, Noise, Noise pollution, sources of noise, effect of noise | en_US |
| dc.title | Noise Pollution and the Enforcement of Environmental Laws in Addis Ababa: The Practice and Challenges | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |