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Resource Documents: England (30 items)
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Avian vulnerability to wind farm collision through the year: Insights from lesser black-backed gulls (Larus fuscus) tracked from multiple breeding colonies
Author: Thaxter, Chris; et al.
Abstract— Wind energy generation has become an important means to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and mitigate against human‐induced climate change, but could also represent a significant human–wildlife conflict. Airborne taxa such as birds may be particularly sensitive to collision mortality with wind turbines, yet the relative vulnerability of species’ populations across their annual life cycles has not been evaluated. Using GPS telemetry, we studied the movements of lesser black‐backed gulls Larus fuscus from three UK breeding colonies through their . . .
More »Noise update, 20 November 2008
Author: Davis, Jane
I am Jane Davis. I live on a farm [Grays Farm] on the Fens in Lincolnshire, England, an area known as South Holland. Perceptions of Noise Swish – blade cutting through the air. Ripping /lashing Hum – low frequency drone similar to mains transformer, but uneven. WD40 noise. Background roar. Helicopter noise (aerodynamic modulation – AM) …Whoooomph Enhanced helicopter noise (amplitude modulation of aerodynamic modulation) Factors That Emphasise Turbine Noise Pollution Shelter – Trees, especially conifers, tend to filter out . . .
More »Wind turbines make people ill: fact not fiction
Author: Kenny, Pamela
Would I say this?: Hundreds of thousands of people around the world live near and work at operating wind turbines without health effects. Wind energy enjoys considerable public support, but wind energy detractors have publicized their concerns that the sounds emitted from wind turbines cause adverse health effects. These allegations of health-related impacts are not supported by science. Studies show no evidence for direct human health effects from wind turbines. It is certainly not me talking. It is the claim . . .
More »Gone with the wind: valuing the visual impacts of wind turbines through house prices
Author: Gibbons, Stephen
Abstract. This study provides quantitative evidence on the local benefits and costs of wind farm developments in England and Wales, focussing on their visual environmental impacts. In the tradition of studies in environmental, public and urban economics, housing costs are used to reveal local preferences for views of wind farm developments. Estimation is based on quasi- experimental research designs that compare price changes occurring in places where wind farms become visible, with price changes in appropriate comparator groups. These comparator . . .
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