Metadata checklist for authors delivering metadata for graphs 
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Information	
	Owner of the graph(s)
(Please copy and paste this section to match the number of graphs if the metadata information is the same for each graph)

Organisation name: EEA
Contact person:, Colin Nugent, Birgit Georgi
Address (delivery point)*: <Type in adress>
Address (email): colin.nugent@eea.europa.eu ; birgit.georgi@eea.europa.eu
Address (web site):www.eea.europa.eu 

Graph
Title: Perception of noise (all sources) as a problem in European cities versus road noise (major source of environmental noise) levels reported in the urban agglomerations correlated to processes of centralisation (red) / decentralisation (blue) / no change in the density gradient (green) of population in cities
Geographical coverage:  selected cities of EU27
Footnote*:   <Type in footnotes, if any>
Abstract: The left diagram shows a ranking from relatively less noise problems perceived down to cities with highly perceived noise problems (dataset 2). The right diagram shows in addition the reported noise data under the Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC (dataset 1). The colour of the city names indicates if the population moves rather towards the centres or to the edge or develops similarly in the centre and the edge (dataset 3)   Keywords: urban environment, noise, transport, perception, quality of life
Theme (EEA): urban environment, noise, transport 
EEA management plan year*: 2010
EEA project code or ETC implementation plan code*: 2.6.1
Link to the original delivery (e.g. on CIRCA)*: http://noise.eionet.europa.eu/     

Copyrights
Does EEA have the copyright to publish 
the graph in reports?                                          Yes:   X            No:   
Does EEA have the copyright to publish 
the graph as a pdf.doc on the web?                     Yes:   X            No:   
Does EEA have the copyright to publish the 
underpinning data on the EEA Data Service?       Yes:   X            No:   

	Datasets retrieved from:
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Source Dataset 1
Name: NOISE – Noise Observation and Information Service for Europe
Organisation/source name: EEA
Contact person*: Colin Nugent
Address (email)*: colin.nugent@eea.europa.eu
Address (web site): http://www.eea.europa.eu/ 
Production year: 2010
URL*: http://noise.eionet.europa.eu/ (In case data comes from the EEA Data Service please provide the EEA Data Service URL)
Other relevant information*: <Type in information>

Source Dataset 2
Name: Urban Audit Perception Survey, 2005
Organisation/source name: DG Regio
Contact person*: Corinne Hermant
Address (email)*: Corinne.Hermant@ec.europa.eu 
Address (web site):<Address - web site>
Production year: 2005
URL*: <Type in URL> (In case data comes from the EEA Data Service please provide the EEA Data Service URL)
Other relevant information*: <Type in information>

Source Dataset 3
Name: Urban Audit database
Organisation/source name: EUROSTAT
Contact person*: Teodora BRANDMUELLER
Address (email)*: Teodora.BRANDMUELLER@ec.europa.eu
Address (web site): http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/ 
Production year: 2001, 2004
URL*:  (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/region_cities/introduction Other relevant information*: <Type in information>