Light Pollution Handbook

• 1 Preamble.- 2 Aim and purpose of outdoor lighting.- 3 What is light pollution?.- 4 Adverse effects of light pollution.- 5 Light pollution and astronomy.- 6 Limiting values for light pollution.- 7 Recommendations.- 8 Vision and visibility.- 9 Visual performance, task performance.- 10 Fundaments of visual and behavioural functions.- 11 Technology and light-techniques.- 12 Effects of outdoor lighting on society and on the environment.- 13 Environmental aspects of light pollution.- 14 Photometry.- 15 Public aspects.

From the reviews: "This is an excellent book, extremely comprehensive and very well done. The authors are very experienced lighting engineers, and thoroughly familiar with lighting and with pollution impacts. I know them both well. they have done an excellent job in producing this volume. Both are leaders in teh efforts to reduce the adverse effects of light pollution on humans and on the ecosystem I highly recommend it." "...it is an excellent reference to most of all aspects of this important topic." (Newsletter of the International Dark-Sky Association, Issue 62) "Light Pollution Handbook (really a two-handbook at 945 pages) is one-stop shopping for nearly every issue related to light pollution."(Planetarian, September 2006) "Authors cover in this more than 900 page book much more than simply light pollution, they provide background information in both fundamentals and different implications of light pollution. ... In summary if somebody has the time to dig deep into the sections of the book, he will find a tremendous amount of interesting data, and especially references to further reading. ... It can be recommended for the expert reader, who would like to find out more on the background of a particular subject." (CIE News, Vol. 81, 2007)