Strathfield
Draft Vision 2020 Submission
Light Pollution
Resources
Adelaide
light pollution with examples of good lighting practice
by Martin Lewicki 2003.
Adelaide, South Australia
Bankstown City Council
Public
Lighting StrategyPDF (2.8Mb)
Index
PDF (851k)
Attachments
1-3 PDF (4.2Mb)
Attachments
4-7 PDF (2.4Mb)
ABC Catalyst Program
16
October 2003
Modern
living is causing a plague of breast cancer in the Western
world. Scientists don’t know all the reasons why, but
researchers in
America are investigating a disturbing possibility. Perhaps artificial
lighting can cause breast cancer.
Google
Directory of Light Pollution Web Sites
Dark Skies For Northern
Ireland
Why Does IT Affect Me
NASA
- The Fading Milky Way
Night light linked to rise
in child leukemia
2004
International Scientific Conference on Childhood Leukaemia
Dr. Barry Clark,
OUTDOOR LIGHTING PRINCIPLES FOR
AUSTRALIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Astronomical Society of
Victoria
http://www.asv.org.au/lpoll/olp.rtf
Stephen M. Pauley MD FACS
Lighting
for the human circadian clock: recent research indicates that
lighting has become a public health issue 2004Medical Hypotheses (2004)
63,
588–596
http://www.darksky.org/links/pauleylhh.pdf
Dr Barry Clark
Lighting and Crime
http://www.asv.org.au/lpoll/lppage.htm
Dr Paul Marchant
What works? A critical note on the
evaluation of crime reduction initiativesCrime Prevention and Community
Safety:
An International Journal, 7(2), 7-13, 2005
In
this paper, Dr Marchant shows that the usual method of conducting and
analysing crime prevention trials is likely to give a biased result,
favouring the intervention and giving an exaggerated measure of the
reliability of the result. This is because of regression to the
mean and because the usual variable used in comparisons, the
number of crimes, generally includes multiple crimes committed by
individuals. For the second reason, a necessary condition
for such before-after comparisons to be valid is that they need to be
done on a large number of pairs of control and treated areas rather
than on just one pair as is almost universal current practice.
For these reasons, the results of virtually all existing trials,
including the Painter trials at Dudley and Stoke-on-Trent and the
evaluation of street lighting effects on crime by Farrington and Welsh,
appear to be biased and unreliable.
Dark Campus Programs
Reduce Vandalism
and Save Money, http://www.darksky.org/infoshts/is054.html
The Marine
and Coastal Community
Network
http://www.mccn.org.au/article.php/id/372/
NSW National Park and Wildlife Service
Recovery Plan for the
Mountain
Pygmy-possum(Burramys parvus)
http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/pdfs/recoveryplan_mountain_pygmy-possum.pdf
Bryant W. Buchanan
Observed and potential
effects of
artificial light on the behavior, ecology, and evolution of nocturnal
frogs
http://www.urbanwildlands.org/abstracts.html
Winslow R. Briggs
Plant photoreceptors: proteins that
perceive information vital for plant development from the light
environment
The Urban Wildlands Group
http://www.urbanwildlands.org/abstracts.html
Declaration
of Stuttgart
Declaration of Genk
This note from Fabio Falchi in Italy
I'm happy to tell you that two new laws against LP are now enforced in
Italy. They are the Umbria and Abruzzo regional laws. Both impose a 0
cd/klm
light intensity limit at and above the horizon (Fully Shielded) for all
new
fixtures, private or public alike, over all their territories (no
zoning, an
old concept). One of them in particular (Abruzzo region) introduces a
new
step in controlling LP by imposing a maximum growth in the
municipalities
electric consumption for external lighting. The maximum yearly growth
is 1%
of the consumption at the law enforcement. This is a major step toward
what
should be the zero growth of a sane ecosystem. In fact, up to now we
focalised our forces to have better and less polluting fixtures, but
the
less polluting fixtures of all is the not installed one.
This limit on the consumption is a spur to a better global efficiency.
If I
need more lights for a new street, and this will exceed the 1% limit
growth,
I should intervene on some old and less efficient fixtures to lower
their
consumption.
Up to now in Italy there are 13 regional laws over 20 total regions. 5
laws
impose FS fixtures all over their territories, 1 imposes FS over all
their
territory for the great part of the implants, 3 have a 3% upward flux
ratio
limit, 1 has very high limits based on a standard norm developed by the
Italian institute of norms, 3 are only declarations of intent, with no
number or limits. The best thing of all is that the most respected laws
are
those with the zero limit!
Clear and dark skies,
Fabio Falchi
INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY
ASSOCIATION
http://www.darksky.org