The Renewable Energy Landscape
The Renewable Energy Landscape

Author: Dean Apostol

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-08-19

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1317211022

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Winner of the 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Research Category) Winner of the 2017 VT ASLA Chapter Award of Excellence (Communications Category) The Renewable Energy Landscape is a definitive guide to understanding, assessing, avoiding, and minimizing scenic impacts as we transition to a more renewable energy future. It focuses attention, for the first time, on the unique challenges solar, wind, and geothermal energy will create for landscape protection, planning, design, and management. Topics addressed include: Policies aimed at managing scenic impacts from renewable energy development and their social acceptance within North America, Europe and Australia Visual characteristics of energy facilities, including the design and planning techniques for avoiding or mitigating impacts or improving visual fit Methods of assessing visual impacts or energy projects and the best practices for creating and using visual simulations Policy recommendations for political and regulatory bodies. A comprehensive and practical book, The Renewable Energy Landscape is an essential resource for those engaged in planning, designing, or regulating the impacts of these new, critical energy sources, as well as a resource for communities that may be facing the prospect of development in their local landscape.

Seventh National Conference on Light Rail Transit
Seventh National Conference on Light Rail Transit

Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780309061520

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The 1995 National Conference on Light Rail Transit (LRT), "Building on Success--Learning from Experience", emphasizes the lessons resulting from the maturing of North American LRT systems. The conference adds to the growing body of knowledge and real-world experiences with modern LRT applications. Volume 1, contains 36 conference papers, organized in four parts. Volume 2, contains both conference papers and associated papers presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C.

Birds of Conservation Concern 2008
Birds of Conservation Concern 2008

Author: U. S. Fish & Wildlife service

Publisher:

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781484153673

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The overall goal of this report is to accurately identify the migratory and non-migratory bird species (beyond those already designated as federally threatened or endangered) that represent our highest conservation priorities. Bcc2008 encompasses three distinct geographic scales- North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI), Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs), USFWS Regions, and National- and is primarily derived from assessment scores from three major bird conservation plans: the Partners in Flight North American Landbird Conservation Plan, the United states Shorebird Conservation Plan, and the North American Waterbird Conservation Plan.

Floodplain Management Plan
Floodplain Management Plan

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 9781742935539

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"The Murrumbidgee River Hay to Maude Floodplain Management Plan (the FMP) has been prepared to provide strategic guidance to the NSW Government and landholders who are involved in the management of floodwaters on the Murrumbidgee River (Hay to Maude) floodplain. The vision for the FMP is: an environment where flood risk to occupiers and users of the floodplain is minimised and flood dependent ecosystems within the floodplain and on the downstream Lowbidgee floodplain are sustained by access to floodwaters"--Page 1.