Vindkraftverkens effekter på ekosystemtjänster: En fallstudie av Piteå Kommuns vindkraftsetablering
2022 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
In the pursuit of renewable energy, wind turbines are used to achieve global and national environmental goals. The establishment of this power production has escalated in Sweden, with the aim of phasing out the use of fossil fuels. The electricity generated may be classified as clean, but the infrastructure not only causes landscape changes, but also threatens ecosystems and their services that contribute to human well-being. The effects on ecosystem services are cross-border, and therefore require cooperation at different institutional scales. This study examines documents at national, regional, and local level to map the existing knowledge about wind power's effects on ecosystem services, and how ecosystem services are expressed in planning. A certain common delineation of the effects can be deduced between the different levels of cultural and supporting services. Planning for wind power at the local level has been shown in Piteå municipality to include a few of the ecosystem services that have been defined. However, there is a lack of an in-depth connection between the affected areas, and any ecosystem services these areas can provide.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. , p. 46
Keywords [en]
Wind turbines, Millennium Assessment, Adaptive co-management
Keywords [sv]
Vindkraftverk, Millennium Assessment, Adaptiv samförvaltning
National Category
Environmental Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50254OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-50254DiVA, id: diva2:1712310
Subject / course
Environment and development
Supervisors
Examiners
2022-11-212022-11-212022-11-21Bibliographically approved