Sustainable Lighting and Energy Saving

Dear Colleagues,

Lighting has evolved, from a tool to ensure the safety and performance of installation users, through compliance with technical standards and regulations, to become a major discipline which has an impact in energetic, environmental and financial terms. Although the lighting community has fully understood this necessary evolution, and installation designs are concerned with the necessity of decreasing energy, raw materials, and budget consumption, without impairing user safety, we still need to expand our vision of lighting to make it really sustainable. Thus, the physical, psychological and emotional well-being of people, so closely linked to lighting, must be seriously considered in every single design in order to achieve lighting in harmony with people, the environment, as well as their mutual interactions.

The target of this Special Issue is to provide a wide framework to present advances and proposals, but also doubts and open points to which solutions will lead us to real sustainable lighting.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Peña-García
Guest Editor

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