strategic approach to noise action planning?

Airports are required to manage noise impact owing to a requirement for them to obtain a social license to operate from the public, and to comply with legislation such as the ICAO Balanced Approach and Environmental Noise Directive. The latter requires the development of noise action plans to help direct noise management strategies over long-term periods, however their success in this regard has been called into question. On the basis that noise is, at its core, a business challenge like any other, this paper investigates approaches and frameworks to strategic planning and decision making from the strategy and business literature, to identify core aspects that may be of value to the action planning process. In so doing the paper identifies several opportunities for noise action planning, and subsequent noise management measures, to be enhanced, and calls for additional research to further explore the potential for such approaches to be developed and applied in the future.