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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Optical Light Pollution
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Front Matter
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About this book
The effects of light pollution on flora, fauna -including humans and their widely varying night-time activities- are often subtle and need extensive field studies to be quantified in a sensible manner.
Some of the highlights were:
The presentation of the 1st world atlas of artificial night sky brightness (Cinzano et al.); the article by the International Darksky Association on their world-wide efforts to curb light pollution (Alvarez del Castillo et al.); the laws controlling light pollution implemented in Spain (Diaz et al.) and Chile (Sanhueza et al.), an overview of the work on radio frequency protection of sites (Cohen et al.) and the excellent introduction to the topic from the Chilean point of view (Daud).
Related topics in the book are light pollution education, aircraft contrails, space advertising (with an added document provided by the relevant UN commission), and an experiment on involving the population of an entire country in measuring sky brightness, by using the internet and the media.
The text is aimed at professionals from a wide range of disciplines related to lighting and its effects on the night-time environment in the broadest sense of the word. Lay persons interested in this emerging multi-disciplinary field can also find much of interest in this book.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Light Pollution: The Global View
Editors: Hugo E. Schwarz
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0125-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1174-0Published: 30 April 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6242-0Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0125-9Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 306
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Ecology, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry