I'm pleased to report that my first academic policy paper on artificial light at night is now officially published in the International Journal of Sustainable Lighting. A brief thread on the paper and its main argument. (1/n) https://www.lightingjournal.org/index.php/path/article/view/104

There is a diversity of outdoor policies throughout various world legal jurisdictions (review article on that topic coming in a 2021 @IUCN best practices guide...), but many of them fail in their implementation not because they're technically inadequate. (2/n)

Rather, the problem is in how (predominantly, Western) law views nature and the importance of the nighttime environment. Although statutory and common law recognize claims of harm due to light pollution as justiciable, they assume the injured party is a human actor. (3/n)