นโยบายท้องฟ้ามืด มลภาวะทางแสงและความยุติธรรมทางสิ่งแวดล้อม

Pedithep Youyuenyong

doi:10.14456/psruhss.2024.31

Authors

Pedithep Youyuenyong Faculty of Law, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14456/psruhss.2024.31

Keywords:

Dark skies, Light pollution, Environmental justice

Abstract

Tackling environmental light pollution harms has become a primary goal of the dark and quiet skies preservation. While human-made alteration of outdoor lighting has negative implications for the nocturnal environment across the globe, the concept of addressing the attention on environmental inequality and injustice from non-environmentally friendly outdoor lighting may at first seem ambiguous. In particular, several national jurisdictions implement their laws to monitor dark-sky quality and its impact on short, long- term and cross-cutting economic, environmental and social effects, and develop policies to accentuate public awareness of dark and quiet skies values ensuring adequate compliance monitoring and enforcement mechanisms for combatting light pollution. However, due to the lack of equitable exposure to dark-sky good and environmental harm to classify dark and quiet skies as a human right causes changes in the perspective with which governments and civil society ensure fair treatment of all mankind regardless of race, colour, national origin or income, in the development of right to dark and quiet skies as one of the substantive elements of the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Dark-sky stakeholders might encourage such goals by protecting people harmed by light pollution and maintaining the balance of the natural day-night environment from access to environmental justice for guaranteeing that everyone shall enjoy the right to dark and quiet skies without disturbing.

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