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Investigating light pollution

This Practical Geography suggests some unusual ideas you could use as part of fieldwork on environmental quality. It is a good idea to first read the article by John Hopkins, ‘Lighting up the world?’ on pages 22–24 of this issue.

St Ives at night

To accompany the article by John Hopkins in this issue, I have put together some ideas on how light pollution (especially in urban areas) can be investigated through first-hand geography fieldwork.

This was not a fieldwork topic I had thought about before, and it is an original one. There is very little in print which examines light pollution in the context of AS and A2 geography. The approaches described in this Practical Geography are unlikely to form a single study on their own. You could use them as part of a wider geographical enquiry into place, in particular the various factors which contribute to the overall quality of an environment.

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