ECOLOGY OF THE NIGHT - RESOURCES

GENERAL

Hass, Cliff. “Light Pollution Internet Links”
http://members.aol.com/ctstarwchr/LiteLynx.htm#index.

 “Light Pollution Awareness”
http://svetlo.astro.cz/ctstarwchr/.

Disappearing Stars: How 2,500 Points of Light Have Dwindled to Fifteen
www.space.com/spacewatch/light_pollution_030321.html

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society  —  Dark Skies Protection and Boreal Forest Conservation
http://23120.vws.magma.ca/news/archives/2005/09/dark_skies_prot.php
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ASTRONOMY

Astronomical Society of Greater Hartford “Light Pollution Information”
http://members.aol.com/copernicanview/.

Berry, Richard.  “Light Pollution in Southern Ontario “The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada”.  June 1976.  Abstract available at;
http://www.rasc.ca/light/print/berry.htm.

Haas, Cliff. (2000)  “Where Has the Night Sky Gone, and Why Should We Care?”
http://members.aol.com/ctstarwchr/nightsky.htm.

Pauley, Stephen, MD.  (1999)  “Reclaiming the Milky Way.”
http://cowan.bendnet.com/darksky/ReclaimingMW.htm.

Phillips, Tony  (2001)  “The Fading Milky Way: Light Pollution is a Growing Environmental Problem That Threatens to Erase the Night Sky Before Its Time”
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast01nov_1.htm.

“Saving Dark Skies”  A collection of 5 articles from Sky and Telescope at
http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/darksky/.

Upgren, A.R. (1996)  “Night Blindness: Light Pollution is Changing Astronomy, The Environment and Our Experience of Nature.”  The Amicus Journal. Winter 22-25

HEALTH

Stevens, RG.  “Light in the Built Environment: Potential Role of the Circadian Disruption in Endocrine Disruption and Breast Cancer.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11405333&dopt=Abstract

LIGHTING SOLUTIONS

Batinsey, John.  (1996)  “Light Pollution: The Neglected Problem”
http://www.monmouth.com/~ksears/litepol1.htm.

A version of this article appeared with the same title in the Winter, 1994 issue of ANJEC Report

Outen, Alan (1998)  “Artificial Lighting and Ecology”
http://enquire.hertscc.gov.uk/hbrc/currentprojects/ArtLig.htm.

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (1998)  “The RA.S.C. Light Pollution Abatement Program”
http://www.rasc.ca/light/print/booklet.htm.

“Solving Lighting Problems.”
http://www.beachtobay.org/html/solving_lighting_problems.htm

“Streetlight Retrofit helps City of Calgary Save Energy.”
http://www.darksky.org/infoshts/pdf/is191.pdf

BIOLOGY

Baldwin, D.H.  “Enquiry into the Mass Mortality of Nocturnal Migrants in Ontario”, The Ontario Naturalist 3(1): 3-11, 1965

Bower, Joe (2000)  “The Dark Side of Light.”
http://magazine.audubon.org/darksideoflight.html.

Degraded Darkness (by Ben Harder)

Grady, Wayne.  “Blinded by the Light.”  Explore. Winter, 2002

Harder, Ben  “Deprived of Darkness: The Unnatural Ecology of Artificial Light at Night.”  Science News.  April 20, 2002

Longcore, Travis and Rich, Catherine.  Effects of Light and Noise from a Proposed Wal-Mart “Supercenter” on the Wildlife of Penjajawoc Marsh.  Maine Audubon Society, July 7, 2002

McMahon, John.  “Pulling the Plug on Light Pollution”.  Central New York Environment 24.4 (Aug/Sept. 1999)

Ogden, L.J.E. Collision Course: The Hazards of Lighted Structures and Windows to Migrating Birds.  Toronto: World Wildlife Fund Canada and Fatal Light Awareness Program.

Outen, Alan R.  The Possible Ecological Implications of Artificial Lighting

Hertfordshire Biological Records Centre, 1998.

Simon, D. Vanishing Night Skies:  The Effects of Light Pollution on the National Park System.   Washington, DC: National Parks and Conservation Association, 1999.

Verheijen, F.J. (1958)  “The Mechanisms of the Trapping Effect of Artificial Light Sources Upon Animals.”  Netherlands Journal of Zoology 13:1-107

Weir, R.D.   Annotated bibliography of Bird Kills at Man-made Obstacles: A Review of the State of the Art and Solutions. Department of Fisheries and the Environment, Canadian Wildlife Service, Ontario Region, 1976.

By-Laws/Ordinances

“Index of IAU Commission 50 working group on light pollution” (2003)
http://www.ctio.noao.edu/light_pollution/iau50/

Penasa, David.  “Getting Starting With Outdoor Light Ordinance.”
http://www.darksky.org/infoshts/pdf/is181.pdf

Designing a Light-Pollution Bylaw: Some Experiences and Comments (pdf)
James G. Laframboise

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Bylaws that are applicable to Canadian Municipalities

 

 


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