Descrizione
This paper describes the methodological approach used for the assessment of odour annoyance employed in a case study carried out in a village in the Province of Modena involving the integration of a number of different techniques. These included the active participation of the local population with the completion of questionnaires combined with the use of sensorial instruments such as electronic noses and staff trained on-site. The methods used, although with inevitable differences, demonstrated a high degree of convergence in the evaluation of the level of annoyance and the temporal distribution of critical periods, identifying odour levels exceeding (although only slightly) the limits to odour emissions laid down by the German legislation taken as the reference threshold (exceeding 10% odour-hours).
