E-Locus - Institutional Repository of the University of Crete

Home Search

Results - Details

Search command : Author="Πουλακάκης" And Author="Νικόλαος"

Current Record: 13 of 43

[Add to Basket]

Identifier

000440915

Title

Εκτίμηση των επιπτώσεων της χωροθέτησης υποδομών αιολικής ενέργειας σε ευάλωτα είδη αρπακτικών πτηνών της Ελλάδας-μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση για την παραγωγή χαρτών ευαισθησίας

Alternative Title

Impact assessment of wind energy facilities spatial planning on large soaring raptors in Greece-methodological approach for sensitivity mapping

Author

Αναγνωστοπούλου, Ασπασία Α.

Thesis advisor

Λύκα, Κωνσταντία

Reviewer

Πουλακάκης, Νικόλαος
Ξηρουχάκης, Σταύρος

Abstract

Wind energy is considered as an environmentally friendly and clean energy to tackle climate change, but without proper spatial planning it can have particularly adverse effects on biodiversity and nature conservation. Greece, as a country with high wind potential, in recent years has attracted a lot of investment interest in the development of wind farms without fully implementing though the appropriate regulatory framework to ensure all efforts to protect biodiversity, resulting in the emergence of a major issue concerning the conflict between energy interests and nature protection. In this thesis, we examine the effects of the development of wind power plants on nine large birds of prey, known for their adverse conservation status either in Greece only or globally, and vulnerable to the effects of wind energy infrastructure. Through spatial analyses, we examined the degree of overlap of wind turbines from any licensing category with sensitivity zones around known nesting sites of all nine species and estimated the overall impact that they will have under the hypothetical implementation scenario of all planned projects. At the same time, we proceeded to the production of different sensitivity maps both based on the known nesting sites of these species and also based on a model for predicting the distribution of these species in Greece. Overall, we found that the percentage of potential impact of wind turbines in the total territories of the study species reaches 64.46%, while for each species separately, the total impact is at least 30% for its territories in total. From the sensitivity maps we found that the total overlap between located wind farms and territories is between 8-10%, while even with the complete exclusion of the study sensitivity zones from the spatial siting of wind farms, Greece's overall energy target is met by at least 4 times. We conclude that given the conservation status of the study species and all the other threats they receive, the development of wind energy in Greece can lead to extremely adverse effects on these species if appropriate measures of proper spatial planning using environmental criteria are not taken.

Language

Greek

Subject

Impact assessment studies

Species distribution modelling

Wind energy facilities

Αιολικοί σταθμοί παραγωγής ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας

Εκτίμηση περιβαλλοντικών επιπτώσεων

Μεγάλα αρπακτικά πτηνά

Μοντέλα κατανομής ειδών

Χαρτογράφηση ευαισθησίας

Issue date