[OL-Forum] Digest Number 963

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There are 3 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

      1. lumens per acre
           From: Susan Harder <lookout@hamptons...>
      2. Lighting and crime in the Guardian
           From: "Barry Clark" <bajc@alphalink....au>
      3. Re: Lighting and crime in the Guardian
           From: "Karolyn Beebe" <keedo@merr...>


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Message: 1
   Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:27:10 -0500
   From: Susan Harder <lookout@hamptons...>
Subject: lumens per acre

For those who have established "lumens per acre" charts:

A plan was submitted with 810,000 lumens for about 2 acres, of rural parking lot and two small buildings, next
to a beach area with wetlands.

Susan



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Message: 2
   Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 15:37:19 +1100
   From: "Barry Clark" <bajc@alphalink....au>
Subject: Lighting and crime in the Guardian

OLFers, 

Here's a piece from the Guardian in the UK about lighting and crime:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1089943,00.html

Barry Clark



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Message: 3
   Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 23:38:05 -0600
   From: "Karolyn Beebe" <keedo@merr...>
Subject: Re: Lighting and crime in the Guardian

Excerpts:

The scientist behind the criticisms, Paul Marchant, a statistician at Leeds Metropolitan University, said yesterday that the conclusions of the paper - The Effects of Improved Street Lighting on Crime; Home Office Research Study 251 - were unfounded and based on statistical mistakes. 

"They have all the trappings of the right sort of official information, but they contain major errors. Not only does the paper fail to demonstrate that improved street lighting decreases crime, its figures could equally well show that it increases it." 
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"It may not be too fanciful to make comparisons with our medieval ancestors' measures against witchcraft - tokens hung over the door and so forth," he said. "We know the 'witches' are out there, and we turn to deterrents which we think will scare them off. But we do not know. We do not have the evidence. 

"Meanwhile light pollution has substantial environmental consequences. If any decision is taken to increase lighting, it needs to be taken on the best possible evidence." 

© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003

NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for research and educational purposes. 

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If you would Barry, please post the link to your papers, Lighting and Crime, Parts One and Two.

Karolyn


> OLFers, 
> 
> Here's a piece from the Guardian in the UK about lighting and crime:
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1089943,00.html
> 
> Barry Clark



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