ISBN: 9780295755205 - transforming night: the history and science of light pollution (weyerhaeuser environmental books) (8 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Who owns the night--and what is lost as we flood it with light, worldwide Darkness has become legible--and contested. Blending archival narrative with on-the-ground ethnography, Sara B. Pritchard traces how four fields--astronomy, remote sensing, conservation science, and ecology--have investigated artificial light at night, turning a ubiquitous convenience into a category of harm. From observatories chasing ever-receding darkness to the satellite images that first rendered a nocturnal planet from space and recent 'Black Marble' maps, Pritchard shows how methods, instruments, and field sites shape what scientists can know about night and light--and what remains unseen.Across these encounters, night emerges not as a backdrop but as an environment in its own right--one transformed by rapidly expanding, brightening illumination in the Anthropocene. Transforming Night chronicles the ascent of 'light pollution,' as well as the new challenge of space-based brightness from satellite constellations, even as dark-sky advocates fight to preserve the starry firmament. Attentive to politics as much as photons, Pritchard brings environmental justice to the fore--highlighting tensions among light poverty, forced illumination, and surveillance and calls for 'beneficial darkness.' She takes seriously Indigenous astronomers' critiques of dispossession and 'astro-colonialism,' asking what it means to site world-class telescopes on sacred land.Sweeping from local parks to planetary vistas, Transforming Night reframes a familiar story of modern light as a history of changing nights--past, present, and possible. It will engage readers in environmental history and humanities, science and technology studies, and the sciences themselves, along with dark-sky activists and anyone drawn to the beauty and politics of the world after nightfall.…

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