i. prologues and statements

CRISTINA NARBONA RU�Z
Spanish Minister of the Environment 

MECHTILD ROTHE
Vice-President of the European Parliament

FRANCISCO S�NCHEZ MART�NEZ
Director of IAC - Instituto de Astrof�sica de Canarias

ANTONIO SAN BLAS �LVAREZ
Director, La Palma Biosphere Reserve

LUIS IGNACIO RAMALLO
President, Spanish National Commission for UNESCO

NATARAJAN ISHWARAN
Director of the Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, UNESCO.
Secretary of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme

EDUARDO FAYOS SOL�
Chief, Education and Knowledge Management,
UN-WTO (World Tourism Organization)

WOLF MICHAEL IWAND
TUI AG

AHMED DJOGHLAF
Executive Secretary - Secretariat of the  Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD)

FRANCESCO BANDARIN
Director of the World Heritage Centre, UNESCO

PETER BRIDGEWATER
Secretary General � Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971)

ROBERT HEPWORTH
Executive Secretary - Secretariat of the Convention on the
Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS-UNEP)

MAGUELONNE D�JEANT-PONS
Head - Cultural Heritage, Landscape and
Spatial Planning Division. Council of Europe

MALCOLM SMITH
President, Division XII, International Astronomical Union (IAU)

ALEXANDER BOKSENBERG
President, United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO
Professor of Experimental Astronomy, University of Cambridge

ARTHOUROS ZERVOS
President, European Renewable Energy Council (EREC)

DAVID L. CRAWFORD
Executive Director. International Dark Sky Association (IDA)

iI. PREFACE and INTRODUCTION

Preface
TERRESTRIAL OUTREACH. LIVING THE STARDOME ON EARTH
JAFAR JAFARI. President of the Starlight Scientific Committee

Introduction
JUAN ANTONIO MEN�NDEZ-PIDAL
Uni�n Latina. Secretary General of the Starlight Conference

Presentation
AN INITIATIVE TO RECOVER THE RIGHT TO STARLIGHT
CIPRIANO MAR�N. Coordinator of the Starlight Initiative

Chapter III
THE IMPORTANCE OF STARLIGHT IN HUMAN CULTURE →

Chapter IV
NIGHTSCAPES, BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT→

Chapter V
THE RIGHT TO STARLIGHT→

Chapter VI
INTELLIGENT LIGHTING AND LIGHT POLLUTION→

Chapter VII
PRESERVATION OF ASTRONOMICAL SITES →

Chapter VIII
STARLIGHT DECLARATION →

Chapter IX
BASES OF THE STARLIGHT INITIATIVE AND ACTION PLAN →

Annex
STARLIGHT INITIATIVE COMMITTEES →