Lighting at the Frontiers of Sustainable Development

Dear colleagues,

According to the Brundtland Report, sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. A deep reflection on this definition makes it very clear that sustainable development goes beyond energy savings to address other important problems like cultural heritage, people's physical and mental well-being or equality and fair access to resources and education, among others. In this wide framework, lighting has become a first-magnitude factor. Indeed, research continuously provides new and unexpected data about the influence of accurate lighting on human well-being, worker ergonomics, impacts on productivity and financial profitability, adaptation to seasonal clock changes, and many other sustainability related topics.

In agreement with these considerations, I have always thought that "life is as it is because light is as it is". As a consequence of this indissoluble relationship between light and human beings and, hence, their activities and way of life, lighting should play a key role in the world to be inherited by future generations. This means that the smart development and utilization of lighting, understood from a total perspective, will expand the frontiers of sustainable development in multiple directions.

This Special Issue, entitled "Lighting at the Frontiers of Sustainable Development", addresses the most important topics in these very frontiers and the way they must be broadened.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Peña-García
Guest Editor

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