Siting solar energy development to minimize biological impacts

Renewable Energy

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 289-298

  Stoms, David M ^a   Dashiell, Stephanie L ^a,b   Davis, Frank W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Defenders of Wildlife   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological condition; GIS; Mitigation hierarchy; Multicriteria analysis; Siting criteria; Utility scale solar energy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; BIOLOGICAL IMPACTS; BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES; CALIFORNIA; ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; ENERGY DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY TARGETS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INSTALLED CAPACITY; LOW CONSERVATION; MITIGATION HIERARCHY; MODEL RESULTS; MODELING RISK; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SITING CRITERIA; SUITABILITY ANALYSIS;

ARID REGIONS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CONSERVATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DESERT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; INSTALLATION; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLAR POWER; UTILITY SECTOR;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874572721     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.01.055     Document Type: Article

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