Environmental Impact Assessments for wave energy developments - Learning from existing activities and informing future research priorities

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 99, Issue C, 2014, Pages 14-22

  Leeney, Ruth H ^a   Greaves, Deborah ^a   Conley, Daniel ^a   O'Hagan, Anne Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; FISH; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WIND POWER;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS (EIA); IMPACT MONITORING; MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY; MONITORING ACTIVITIES; OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESS; RESEARCH PRIORITIES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS; WAVE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84939414974     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2014.05.025     Document Type: Article

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69. Appendix D:. http://www.wavehub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Appendix-D-Intertidal-Bird-Surveys.pdf.
70. Appendix E http://www.wavehub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Appendix-E-Offshore-Bird-Surveys.pdf.
71. Appendix F http://www.wavehub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Appendix-F-Intertidal-Study.pdf.
72. Appendix I http://www.wavehub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Appendix-I-Subtidal-Benthic-Survey.pdf.
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75. Appendix N http://www.wavehub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Appendix-N-Archaeological-Assessment.pdf.