Hazards, Causes and Legal Governance Measures of China’s Urban Light Pollution

摘要

Urban light pollution, which poses a threat to people’s production, life, and physical and mental health,is becoming increasingly serious and gradually forms a new type of environmental pollution. In orderto further analyse the hazards and causes of China’s urban light pollution and explore its legalgovernance measures, this study reviews foreign literature on hazards and causes of urban lightpollution, summarizes the types and causes of the pollution in China, and provides specific controlmeasures from the perspective of legal governance. Research results in the country and abroadshow that light pollution is caused by development, which has a serious negative impact on the normallife of urban residents. The hazards of urban light pollution are manifested in four aspects, such asdamaging human health, affecting the natural ecological environment, affecting normal operation ofurban traffic, and causing serious waste of energy. Urban light pollution is caused by the lack ofsystematized urban building light source design work, excessive use of electronic products with thedevelopment of science and technology, weak public awareness of environmental protection, and thedelay of laws and regulations. Some legal measures to control light pollution are presented as follows:Perfecting the administrative system and environmental supervision system in legislation, innovatingthe legislation system of light pollution prevention, formulating strict civil liability for light pollution, andfurther formulating a single law on light pollution control. The results of this study have importantreference value for taking measures predictably to avoid the occurrence of light pollution during urbanconstruction design, for the macro-control of urban planning and management departments, and forpromoting the concept of urban environmental protection and energy conservation and sustainableurban development.