Energy and the natural heritage
By: edited by Colin A. Galbraith and John M. Baxter
Contributors: Scottish Natural Heritage (Agency)
Publisher: TSO Scotland
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780114973414
Subjects: Energy policy; Congresses; Conservation of natural resources; Environmental policy; Environmental protection; Biodiversity; Environmental aspects; Energieressourcen; Schottland; Energiepolitik; Förderung regenerativer Energien; Energiekonsum; Umweltverträglichkeit; Umweltbelastung; Umweltschutz; Naturschutz; Großbritannien
Notes: " ... based on a conference organized by [Scottish Natural Heritage] in November 2004 ..."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Climate change : the need to alter our patterns of energy generation and use / Janet Sprent, Roland Cliff & Paul Ekins; title: Impacts of coal mining and abandonment / John McManus; title: Hydroelectricity development and the environment : the formative years / Terry Langford; title: The everlasting legacy : nuclear power and Scotland / Jean McSorley; title: How Norway has managed the environmental effects of the Norwegian oil and gas industry in the vicinity of oil platforms / John S. Gray; title: Energy, transport and impacts on the Scottish environment / Tom Hart; title: Buildings and energy : minimizing the effects on the natural heritage / Kate Mills & Peter Hutchinson; title: Liquid biofuels : environmental implications of their development / Kerr C. Walker; title: Hydrogen technology; title: what impacts? / Sinclair Gair; title: Carbon capture and storage in the UK / Yasmin E. Bushby, Stuart M.V. Gilfillan & R. Stuart Haszeldine; title: 21st century nuclear generation; title: how clean and green could it be? / Tony Cooper; title: Renewable energy; title: overview, trends and challenges / Iain Todd & Bill Band; title: Hydroelectricity; title: impacts and opportunities for the Natural Heritage / Colin Bean & Frances Thin; title: Environmental impacts from bioenergy; title: a view from Sweden / Tomas Käberger; title: Onshore windfarms landscape visual and cumulative impacts; title: the SNH approach / Laura Campbell; title: Effects of terrestrial wind farms on birds and upland habitats / D. Philip Whitfield & Andrew M. Coupar; title: Marine renewables; title: the available resource and how to tap it / Ian Bryden; title: Marine renewable energy technologies; title: Natural Heritage impacts / Alexander J. Downie, Victoria Copley, Zoë Crutchfield & Sarah Wood; title: The North Harris Trust : community, environment, renewables; title: getting the balance right / David Cameron; title: Management of environmental issues at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney / Kirsten M. Geddes, Liz Foubister & Jennifer Norris; title: Woodfuel, rural development and the Natural Heritage in the Highlands / Fiona Strachan & Cliff Beck; title: Familiarity breeds content? Public perceptions of wind power in the Scottish Borders / Charles R. Warren & Carolyn Lumsden; title: Energy and the Natural Heritage : developing an SNH view / Bill Band & Clive Mitchell; title: Concluding remarks / John Thomson.