Biodiversity and wind farms in Portugal : current knowledge and insights for an integrated impact assessment process /: current knowledge and insights for an integrated impact assessment process. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Miguel Mascarenhas [and five others], editors.
• Editors: Mascarenhas, Miguel; Marques, Ana Teresa; Ramalho, Ricardo; Santos, Dulce; Bernardino, Joana; Fonseca, Carlos
• Contents: Section I. Wildlife interactions with wind farms.- Chapter 1.- Spatial and temporal dynamics of bird, bat communities and terrestrial mammals on wind farms in the Iberian Peninsula -- Chapter 2 -- Impacts of wind farms on bird and bat communities: Direct Fatality and Indirect Impacts (behavioural and habitat effects) -- Section II. Assessing and monitoring the impacts of wind farms on wildlife -- Chapter 3 -- Assessment methods to determine impacts: an overview -- Chapter 4 -- Vulnerability models to estimate the impacts of wind farms on bird and bat communities.- Chapter 5 -- The indirect Impacts of wind farms: disturbance & exclusion effect on terrestrial mammals populations.- Chapter 6 -- Comparing the performance of the monitoring methods used to determine bid and bat fatalities -- Chapter 7 -- Estimating bird and bat fatality at wind farms: Models to predict impact significance -- Section III. An integrated management approach to reconcile biodiversity and wind farms -- Chapter 8 -- Reconciliation of biodiversity and wind energy: a tiered-based approach.- Chapter 9 -- How to design an adaptive management approach.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 226 pages)
• Subjects: 333.72; Environment; Biodiversity -- Portugal; Wind power plants -- Portugal; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical; Sustainable development; Renewable energy sources; Nature conservation; Biodiversity; Clean energy industries; Natural resources; Environment; Nature Conservation; Sustainable Development; Biodiversity; Natural Resources; Renewable and Green Energy; Science -- Environmental Science; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Nature -- Natural Resources; Science -- Energy; Sustainability; Biodiversity; Environmental management; Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology; Nature Conservation; Sustainable development; Biodiversity; Natural resources; Renewable energy sources; Nature -- Environmental Conservation & Protection; Conservation of the environment; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319603513; 3319603515
• Related ISBNs: 9783319603506; 3319603507
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