Making Darkness a Place-Based Resource: How the Fight against Light Pollution Reconfigures Rural Areas in France

Dany Lapostolle, Samuel Challéat · 2020 · Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Summary. French rural communities are turning darkness into an economic and environmental resource by fighting light pollution. The paper identifies three approaches: economicizing darkness for profit, protecting it for biodiversity conservation, and integrating it into sustainable development planning. These rural areas become experimental spaces where communities resolve conflicts between different visions of darkness protection, ultimately enabling new development trajectories that balance economic, ecological, and energy goals.

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  journal = {Annals of the American Association of Geographers},
  year    = {2020},
  doi     = {10.1080/24694452.2020.1747972},
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DOI

10.1080/24694452.2020.1747972

Countries

France

Regions

Europe

Categories

climate-and-environment, regional-innovation-systems, policy

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2026-04-28