Research in Several Aspects of Outdoor Lighting: Energy, Sustainability, Safety, and Visual Perception
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 28552
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Research focus is mainly on broad challenges for outdoor lighting. Sustainability and sustainable lighting; energy efficiency; environmental and ecological effects; traffic safety, road safety; econometric models; behaviour; and social sustainability.
Interests: The primary research focus is lighting design and spatial experience. A special interest is light distribution and visual perception of spaciousness and enclosure. This provides a new approach for studying the effect of light distribution for the pedestrian’s feeling of being safe.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Guest Editors are inviting submissions for a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of "Research in Several Aspects of Outdoor Lighting: Energy, Sustainability, Safety, and Visual Perception". Sustainable outdoor lighting is a relatively new research area that is attracting increasing attention since much of the currently used outdoor lighting has not been thoroughly evaluated from a multidimensional and more holistic perspective, i.e., covering the ecological and environmental, economic, and social sustainability dimensions. Outdoor lighting produces valuable benefits for human life, health, and wellbeing at night, but might also cause unwanted and negative impacts due to, for example, ecological impact, light pollution, and obtrusive light. Sustainable outdoor lighting should therefore include all relevant aspects that will benefit humans the most while maximizing energy efficiency/savings and minimizing environmental and ecological impacts in addition to the costs.
We invite papers to this Special Issue to cover several aspects of outdoor lighting such as, for example, sustainability and energy efficiency and savings, safety (traffic and road safety, perceptions of safety), and visual perception of outdoor environments.
We encourage studies in a range of disciplines covering quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research.
Dr. Annika K. Jägerbrand
Dr. Ulrika Wänström Lindh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable development
- ecological impact
- energy efficiency and energy savings
- light pollution
- LCA (life cycle assessment)
- economical aspects of outdoor lighting
- traffic and road safety
- reassurance and perception of safety
- human health
- social wellbeing, quality of life, and equitability
- visual perception of the lit environment
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