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The Importance Of Artificial Lighting

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Artificial lighting plays an important role in the industrialized society. Technology advances has led to rapid expansion of the usage and applications of artificial lights, for security, recreation and beautification purposes. However, excessive and intrusive artificial lights have resulted in light pollution that adversely disturb people and the environment (Mizon, 2002). Light pollution is caused by inefficient use of artificial lighting, for examples, situation where lighting is on excessive illumination levels with improperly shielded and completely unnecessary for its location and audience. International Dark-Sky Association found 80% of the world’s population lives under skyglow, meaning public could not experience a natural night (Falchi …show more content…

The primary problem would be to determine the extent to which light pollution was perceived as a problem and how individuals think about environmental problems (Addams and Proops, 2000). And then to identify appropriate lighting ordinance concepts for controlling light pollution, this may be difficult due to lack of assessment of light pollution risks. These two questions uncover the issue of what makes environmental policies socially and politically acceptable to light pollution control. Another challenge facing light pollution regulation and that is how to quantify it. Internationally, there is no single set of metrics because such a set will not meet the needs of all forms of light …show more content…

For example, Building Ordinance (Cap.123) said external lighting installations are building work that requires approval from the Building Authority and advertisements Regulation (Cap.132B) said the court could make order for the removal of any sign interferes with road traffic. This legislation makes more difficult for new external lighting to be established and hundreds of signs are removed every year because of safety issues or abandonment. However, there is regulatory gaps have not been covered to all aspects of light pollution, for example, these does not encourage business to reduce lighting for their billboards and advertising

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