Are citizens willing to accept changes in public lighting for biodiversity conservation?

Light pollution has significantly increased in recent years, concert with urban sprawl. consequences for nocturnal wildlife, human health, and energy consumption are numerous but poorly tackled policies. The regulation mitigation of light is possible, requires an important shift the lighting paradigm, including public often managed by local authorities. One main sources reticence authorities to regulate potential rejection citizens changes. In this article, we investigate citizens’ willingness accept transition more sustainable regimes. We use a discrete choice experiment large French metropolis measure relative weight different characteristics – intensity, extinction, colour respondents’ decisions. show that respondents globally open shifts, their preferences terms changes highly heterogeneous. By incorporating socioeconomic variables into our econometric models, characterise profiles regarding This provides practical information environmental planners allowing them match municipalities where need control priority those measures seem socially acceptable citizens.