Conflicts between decentralized renewable electricity production and landscape services – A spatially-explicit quantitative assessment for Switzerland

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue , 2017, Pages 397-407

  Kienast, Felix ^a   Huber, Nica ^b   Hergert, Rico ^a   Bolliger, Janine ^a   Moran, Lorena Segura ^c   Hersperger, Anna M ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

GIS; Land use conflict; Landscape service mapping; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENERGY GAP; FORESTRY; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; LAND USE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOLAR ENERGY; WIND POWER;

DECENTRALISED; ENERGY-POTENTIALS; LAND USE CONFLICTS; LANDSCAPE SERVICE MAPPING; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY; RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SWITZERLAND;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84988012821     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.09.045     Document Type: Review

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