Light Pollution as Part of the Environmental Problems

TL;DR

This paper discusses light pollution as an environmental issue, highlighting its effects like energy waste and proposing educational actions to address it within broader pollution studies.

Contribution

It introduces specific educational initiatives at UTN Argentina to incorporate light pollution into environmental problem curricula.

Findings

Recognition of light pollution's environmental impact

Development of educational strategies to mitigate light pollution

Integration of light pollution topics into environmental studies

Abstract

Unscrupulous outdoor lighting produces a number of effects that are currently included under the term light pollution. Its consequences (e.g. loss of resources by energy waste), are being recognized for some time, as well as the possibility to mitigate this pollution. In the present work, we present some lines of action developed at the Facultad Regional San Nicol\'as of National Technological University (UTN) of Argentina to include the CL as a regular topic of study in the problems of air pollution.