Starlight 2009 La Palma Sesion 1

A Common Heritage
The Right to Starlight

International Initiative in Defence of the Quality of the Night Sky as Mankind’s Scientific, Cultural and Environmental Right

Starlight Reserve

WHERE THE EARTH MEETS THE UNIVERSE International Workshop Session 3
	Intelligent Lighting, climate change and sustainable development Topics • Measuring and fighting light pollution • Guidelines, recommendations and regulations • Best Practices and successful cases • Protection of the sky in urban and rural areas Chair: Richard Wainscoat University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy, USA. Chair of the IAU working group on controlling light pollution.

	LIGHT POLLUTION: PRESENT AND FUTURE OF ITS REDUCTION Fabio Falchi ISTIL (Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute) President of Cielo Buio (Italy) Presentation STHE CANARY ISLANDS’ SKY LAW : EXPERIENCES, FOLLOW-UP AND MEASURES Francisco Javier Díaz Castro - Federico de La Paz OTPC-IAC Presentation A FAITHFUL AND CONTRASTED IMAGE OF LIGHT POLLUTION OF OUR CITIES Carlos Cifuentes Gutiérrez - Javier Calonge Consultoría Lumínica - Spain Presentation IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING DARK SKY SITES IN CENTRAL EUROPE Andreas Hänel Dark Sky Germany. Museum am Schölerberg, Osnabrück. Presentation EXPERIENCES IN LIGHT POLLUTION EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS - IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN OPEN AREAS. Alberto Bañuelos Irusta AAC Centro de Acústica Aplicada S.L. Presentation THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF THE NIGHT SKY AND DARK SKY PLACES Martin Morgan-Taylor School of Law. DeMonfort University. Leicester. UK. Presentation LEGAL CONCERNS FOR STARLIGHT RESERVES AND THE ENVIRONMENT Phil Cameron Space Travel Law Association - STELA (USA) Presentation Statment ACTIVITIES OF THE SPANISH DSA CORNERSTONE PROJECT Fernando Jáuregui Planetarium of Pamplona. DSA Spanish node of IYA2009. Presentation Video - Calar Alto
CONFERENCE SESSIONS WEBCAST
The world Night - V ideo devoloped by Sky Quality Protection Technical Office (OTPC) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC).

			PROGRAMME Where the Earth meets the Universe the International workshop “Starlight Reserves and World Heritage: Scientific, Cultural and Environment Values” was held on the island of La Palma on 9 and 10 nobiembre. Programme
			Workshop Presentations Conference Sessions WEBCAST The presentations are available in pdf format. Conference Session Webcasts will be available soon.
			STARLIGHT RESERVE Guideline Developed by Starlight Initiative (IAC) in cooperation with UNESCO-World Heritage Centre (Initiative Astronomy and World Heritage), IAU (International Astronomical Union) and the support of MaB (MaB Urban Ecology Programme of UNESCO), CIE (International Commission on Illumination), OTPC-IAC (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias) and UNWTO (World Tourism Organization). Document (2.8 MB)
			CONCLUSIONS AND REPORT Starlight Reserves and World Heritage The International Workshop and Expert Meeting ”Starlight Reserves and World Heritage – scientific cultural and environmental values”, held in Fuerteventura, Spain, 10-11 March 2009, was attended by 35 participants and experts from 10 countries.The Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee, Ambassador Maria Jesús San Secundo, also participated in the International Workshop. Report (1 MB) More Information UNESCO-World Heritage Centre
			UNESCO World Heritage Centre Statement statement on the occasion of the International Meeting Where the Earth meets the Universe. 9-10 November 2009, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. Statement
			Astronomy and World Heritage Working Group This website contains information about UNESCO’s Astronomy and World Heritage Initiative and the activities of the IAU’s Working Group on Astronomy and World Heritage. The Working Group is collaborating with The Starlight Initiative to help preserve the natural heritage of the dark night sky. More information ...>
			IUCN's first step toward preserving natural darkness Dark Skies Advisory Group This advisory group was set up in early 2009 within the Task Force on Cities and Protected Areas of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). It is chaired by David Welch, an ecosystem management and protected areas consultant based in Ottawa, Canada. More Information - Statment ...>
			World Heritage Review World Heritage and Astronomy The latest issue of UNESCO's World Heritage Review has been released, with astronomy and world heritage as its theme. The publication includes a chapter "Starlight Reserves and World Heritage: Scientific, cultural and environmental values" e-book ....>
			International Conference: ASTRONOMY AND WORLD HERITAGE: ACROSS TIME AND CONTINENTS 19 - 24 August, Kazan , Russia During the opening ceremony of the International Year of Astronomy, which took place on 15 January 2009, the Director-General of UNESCO officially launched the cycle of activities "Astronomy and World Heritage: across time and continents". One of the main activities of this cycle is the International Conference on "Astronomy and World Heritage: across time and continents", hosted by the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russian Federation) 19 - 24 August 2009. More Information ....>
			Starlight 2009 Sky Brightness on La Palma During and after the Starlight Workshop on 9th and 10th November 2009 studies and measurements at different places on the island could be made by Günther Wuchterl (Austria), Friedel Pas (Belgium), Martin Morgan-Taylor (Great Britain) and Andreas Hänel (Germany). To these, measurements by Torsten Güths have been added, that he made with a Globe at Night SQM-L during a stay on La Palma in August 2009. Repport