Incorporating the visibility of coastal energy infrastructure into multi-criteria siting decisions

Marine Policy

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 218-223

  Griffin, Robert ^a   Chaumont, Nicolas ^a   Denu, Douglas ^a   Guerry, Anne ^a   Kim, Choong Ki ^b   Ruckelshaus, Mary ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Marine spatial planning; Siting; Viewshed; Visibility; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DECISION MAKING; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SPATIAL PLANNING; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942744690     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2015.09.024     Document Type: Article

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