@misc{10481/62661,
year = {2020},
month = {4},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/62661},
abstract = {In the last decades, lighting has evolved from a branch of engineering ensuring safety and
performance in indoor and outdoor installations, to a key discipline interacting with a wide spectrum
of fields and having a deep impact on our daily lives. Although this evolution also applies to other
areas of knowledge, the special features of lighting make its potential and also its limitations different.
It is not the typical field where a well-established mathematical framework allows a departure from
well-defined input and identifying clear effects and conclusions. The reason is that lighting is a field
dealing with the interaction between a physical phenomenon and a physiological and psychological
system, the human being. In addition to the complexity of its basis, the relationship between lighting
and sustainability has become stronger in recent years. This relationship is bi-directional in some cases:
on one hand, advanced societies require more and more complex lighting installations, which means
high energy consumption, use of raw materials, financial costs, manufacturing and maintenance
processes, waste and emissions to the atmosphere. On the other hand, good lighting has an impact on
issues like productivity, well-being, happiness, disease avoidance, safety, and many other qualitative
aspects whose direct or indirect impact on sustainability is remarkable. This work will analyze how
lighting can give answers to questions related to sustainability, not only from the classic topics of
energy consumption and waste management, but from a wider and global perspective. The results of
these works are analyzed, and the basis of the new framework of total lighting, discussed.},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Sustainable lighting},
keywords = {Sustainable production},
keywords = {Resources},
keywords = {Human inducedenvironmental impacts},
title = {The Perspective of Total Lighting as a Key Factor to Increase the Sustainability of Strategic Activities},
doi = {10.3390/su12072751},
author = {Peña García, Antonio Manuel and Salata, Ferdinando},
}