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- Provides an insight into the main impacts of Portuguese wind energy facilities on wildlife, in particular birds, bats and wolf
- Offers unique insights into methods and procedures of biodiversity impact assessment in Portugal
- Showcases the adaptive management framework in wind energy industry
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents a review of the state-of-the-art knowledge on the interactions between biodiversity and wind energy development, focused on the Portuguese reality. The volume addresses the particularities of the impact assessment procedures in Portugal, contrasting it with the international practices and presenting its main findings by covering the following broader themes: i) evaluation of spatial and temporal dynamics of wildlife affected by wind farms, including birds, bats and terrestrial mammals (in particularly Portuguese wolf population); ii) the methodologies used to assess impacts caused by this type of developments in biodiversity; iii) the best practice methodologies to implement an adaptive management approach to reconcile biodiversity and wind farms.
The knowledge presented in this book was gathered through the research and development activities developed by Bioinsight company (former Bio3 company) during the last 13 years and partially funded by a R&Dproject designated as “Integrated solutions for biodiversity management at wind farms: reduce and compensate bird and bat mortality” (acronym: Wind & Biodiversity), co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), under the Regional Operational Programme of Centre (Mais Centro).
This volume fills a void in the literature as a book giving insights on the best practices to install and manage a wind farm from a biodiversity management point of view, while establishing a commitment between economic sustainability and biodiversity conservation.
Editors and Affiliations
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Bioinsight, Odivelas, Portugal
Miguel Mascarenhas
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cE3c—Centro de Ecologia, Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Ana Teresa Marques
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Bioinsight, Cape Town, South Africa
Ricardo Ramalho
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Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal (CIISA), Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Dulce Santos
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CIBIO-InBIO, Department of Biology—Pole of Mitra, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal
Joana Bernardino
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Department of Biology—Group of Adaptation Biology and Ecological Processes, University of Aveiro—CESAM, Aveiro, Portugal
Carlos Fonseca
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biodiversity and Wind Farms in Portugal
Book Subtitle: Current knowledge and insights for an integrated impact assessment process
Editors: Miguel Mascarenhas, Ana Teresa Marques, Ricardo Ramalho, Dulce Santos, Joana Bernardino, Carlos Fonseca
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60351-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60350-6Published: 28 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86844-8Published: 17 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60351-3Published: 18 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nature Conservation, Sustainable Development, Biodiversity, Natural Resources, Renewable and Green Energy