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

近年来，随着城市扩张，光污染显着增加。光污染对夜间野生动物、人类健康和能源消耗的影响很多，但在城市政策中却没有得到很好的解决。调节和减轻光污染是可能的，但需要对照明模式进行重大转变，包括通常由地方当局管理的公共照明。地方当局对调节光污染保持沉默的主要来源之一是市民可能拒绝改变照明。在本文中，我们调查了公民接受向更可持续的照明制度过渡的意愿。我们在法国一个大城市使用离散选择实验来测量公共照明不同特征的相对权重——光强度、消光、浅色——在受访者的决定中。我们表明，全球受访者对公共照明变化持开放态度，但他们在变化方面的偏好差异很大。通过将受访者的社会经济变量纳入我们的计量经济模型，我们描述了关于照明变化的偏好的主要概况。这为城市和环境规划者提供了实用信息，使他们能够将光污染控制作为优先事项的城市与公民社会可接受的措施相匹配。通过将受访者的社会经济变量纳入我们的计量经济模型，我们描述了关于照明变化的偏好的主要概况。这为城市和环境规划者提供了实用信息，使他们能够将光污染控制作为优先事项的城市与公民社会可接受的措施相匹配。通过将受访者的社会经济变量纳入我们的计量经济模型，我们描述了关于照明变化的偏好的主要概况。这为城市和环境规划者提供了实用信息，使他们能够将光污染控制作为优先事项的城市与公民社会可接受的措施相匹配。