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Landscapes of Marine Energy: An Overview

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Renewable marine energy can be an important contributor to achieving the goal of CO2 reduction for 2050 established by the Kyoto protocol. However, the infrastructures that exploit renewable energy sources have a spatial impact on marine landscapes that must be taken into consideration. This impact determines public perception of renewable energy projects. This study analyses relevant case studies of marine energy infrastructure that have dealt with this impact from different disciplines. The objective of this work is to create an inventory of spatial solutions to the impacts generated in marine landscapes. This catalogue will be a useful tool for decision-making when facing a multidisciplinary process of marine spatial planning related with energy production. In order to be validated, the inventory must achieve the following goals: (i) encouraging multidisciplinary processes of comparison, (ii) enabling Research by design methodology (iii) addressing integration in landscape, (iv) awareness of socioeconomic and cultural values and (v) including data-informed results. Two impacts related to the field of landscape architecture in each collected sample have been considered relevant for this catalogue: visual impact and spatial footprint. Formal features and numerical indicators visually describe these impacts, as well as the innovative strategies that these projects propose to deal with them. These features are: element configuration (“anatomy”), stability systems and dynamic systems. They are represented by synthetic drawings. The chosen indicators are: energy output, distance to shoreline, sea depth, area of device, and height of device. These are included in a radial chart. In addition, a label with basic identification data has been attached to each sample. The quantitative information in the catalogue makes the different projects comparable, while the graphic representation give a qualitative point of view about the spatial consequences of this data. Both are necessary to promote future multidisciplinary marine energy projects.

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Cueto-Mondejar, D., Castellano-Pulido, F.J., García-Píriz, T. (2020). Landscapes of Marine Energy: An Overview. In: Monteiro, J., et al. INCREaSE 2019. INCREaSE 2019. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30938-1_34

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