**3.2 Challenges in developing countries in the field of environmental noise governance and guidelines to overcome them**

The objective of environmental noise governance is to facilitate law implementation and enforcement and inform, educate, train and strengthen stakeholder participation in all aspects related to environmental noise and the prevention and reduction of environmental noise exposures and the corresponding health and environmental impacts. To achieve this objective, governmental authorities can implement the individual issues of this process in collaboration with other stakeholders. As indicated above, local circumstances with respect to background noise levels and cultural and social conditions must be considered. The estimation of the costs and benefits of ENM as well as the provision of human and financial resources are indispensable ingredients of good governance.

In developing countries 'challenges' to achieve this include:


'Guidelines' for overcoming the main challenges of environmental noise governance include [16, 19]:

