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Approaching Sonic Devices from a Multicriteria Sustainable Approach to Enhance the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems

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In the Art of War, Sun Tzu has quoted: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. Based on those sayings, this chapter aims to highlight the aspects of noise and vibration by reference to their impacts on living beings, how damaged might they be, depending on physical and psychophysical conditions of beings and environment; and to question, based on a multicriteria sustainable approach, the concepts of noise repellants, sonic non-lethal weapons, and other devices generating the soundscape scenarios over human health and other non-human species. This research is the result of many insights developed from different approaches brought together for the creation of a new research group addressing vibration, sustainable management, and strategic planning, with special emphasis on sonic devices under a defense approach.

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  1. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Associate Professor Level 1, Technology Center, SAGE-COPPE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Gueiros Teixeira Suzana

  2. Former Titular Professor at Mechanical Engineering Program – PEM - COPPE - Current Professor at the Urban Engineering Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Jules Ghislain Slama

  3. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – COPPE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Luiz Pinguelli Rosa

  4. Former Military Police of Rio de Janeiro Officer - Commander, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Carlos Eduardo Milagres Pereira

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  1. College of Law, Economics and Social Science of Agadir, Center for Environment, Human Security & Governance (CERES), Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco

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  2. JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo & Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Suzana, G.T., Slama, J.G., Rosa, L.P., Pereira, C.E.M. (2021). Approaching Sonic Devices from a Multicriteria Sustainable Approach to Enhance the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems. In: Behnassi, M., Gupta, H., El Haiba, M., Ramachandran, G. (eds) Social-Ecological Systems (SES). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76247-6_12

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