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Cooperative Participatory Evaluation of Renewable Technologies on Ecosystem Services (CORPORATES).

可再生技术对生态系统服务的合作参与评估（企业）。

基本信息

批准号：
NE/M000184/1
负责人：
Beth Scott
金额：
$ 10.9万
依托单位：
University of Aberdeen
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FM000184%2F1
关键词：
Cooperative Participatory Evaluation Renewable Technologies

项目摘要

Driven by ambitious, legally binding targets for increased use of renewable energy, the expansion of offshore wind energy has become a key policy issue in the UK, and is attracting substantial investment from businesses. However, the use of large areas of the sea for wind farms can impact on marine ecosystems and on the many species that depend on these ecosystems, from sandeels to seabirds, and the important services these ecosystems provide, such as fisheries and recreation. As a result, many stakeholders might be affected by new wind farms, including commercial, government, nature conservation and community interests. Depending on where wind farms are located, different trade-offs between these benefits will need to be made. Ecological researchers have developed oceanographic models that can predict how the addition of 100s of large gravity based windmills will change the movement and accumulation patterns of bottom sediment and in what locations there will be hydrographic changes sufficient to affect the amount of plankton (the base of the marine food chain) produced. From previous research, we can predict the consequential changes in the distributions of sandeels, seabirds and marine mammals.Economists and social scientists have developed ways of assimilating ecological evidence to assess the ecosystem services impacts on stakeholders of large scale changes, such as in agricultural practices (Bateman et al. 2013 Science 341:45-50). Together they evaluate how changes in ecosystem services in terrestrial settings are viewed socially, culturally, economically and legally. However, in the marine environment, and because of the infancy of large offshore developments, marine renewable energy industries do not currently have an established or standardised process to evaluate the ecological, economic and cultural trade-offs inherent in alternative locations of offshore windfarms. This project brings together leading ecological, economic, social-cultural, and legal experts from the University of Aberdeen, the Scottish Association for Marine Science, the James Hutton Institute and Marine Scotland Science with 3 marine renewable energy companies; Seagreen, Repsol & MainStream RP. Together, this group will co-develop a decision-support system to assess large scale changes in ecosystem services in the marine environment. Using a case study of the wider Firth of Forth, Scotland, where there are plans for a Marine Protected Area in the same location as the windfarms, these partners will bring together a wide range of stakeholders (fishing industry, marine wildlife NGOs, local community leaders and environmental businesses) to map out different types of evidence, discuss their different and shared values and evaluate different spatial wind farm scenarios to inform decisions. At the core of the projects there will be 2 workshops; the first of which uses the rich amount of existing data for this area to develop a common understanding of the social-ecological system. The 2nd will explore ecosystem service trade-offs under different wind turbine configuration scenarios. This project will facilitate the rare opportunity of providing the interaction needed to enhance business's and stakeholder's understanding of ecosystem services in the context of a real situation at just the right time for immediate implementation.The CORPORATES project will produce a user's guide on how to run this process, so that it can become a standardised tool for the industry. This can bring substantial benefits to industry, as business plans can be better aligned to different stakeholder interests and communal values, increasing support for plans, reducing the risk of conflict and improving the reputation of the company. The project will also help businesses take better account and understanding of the value of the many services that ecosystems provide us and the benefits they bring to human wellbeing, leading to more sustainable use of the marine environment.

在雄心勃勃的、具有法律约束力的可再生能源使用目标的推动下，海上风能的扩张已成为英国的一个关键政策问题，并吸引了大量企业投资。然而，将大片海域用于风力发电场可能会影响海洋生态系统和依赖这些生态系统的许多物种，从沙蚕到海鸟，以及这些生态系统提供的重要服务，如渔业和娱乐。因此，许多利益相关者可能会受到新风电场的影响，包括商业、政府、自然保护和社区利益。根据风电场的位置，需要在这些好处之间做出不同的权衡。生态研究人员已经开发出海洋学模型，可以预测增加100个大型重力风车将如何改变底部沉积物的运动和积累模式，以及在哪些位置将发生足以影响浮游生物（海洋食物链的基础）数量的水文变化。从以往的研究中，我们可以预测沙蚕、海鸟和海洋哺乳动物分布的相应变化。经济学家和社会科学家已经开发出吸收生态证据的方法，以评估生态系统服务对大规模变化（如农业实践）的利益相关者的影响（Bateman et al. 2013 Science 341：45-50）。它们共同评估了社会、文化、经济和法律如何看待陆地环境中生态系统服务的变化。然而，在海洋环境中，由于大型海上开发的起步阶段，海洋可再生能源行业目前没有一个既定或标准化的过程来评估海上风电场替代地点固有的生态，经济和文化权衡。该项目汇集了来自阿伯丁大学、苏格兰海洋科学协会、詹姆斯赫顿研究所和苏格兰海洋科学的领先生态、经济、社会文化和法律的专家，以及3家海洋可再生能源公司：Seagreen、Repsol和Mainstream RP。该小组将共同开发一个决策支持系统，以评估海洋环境中生态系统服务的大规模变化。通过对苏格兰福斯湾（Firth of Forth）的案例研究，这些合作伙伴将把广泛的利益相关者聚集在一起，（渔业、海洋野生动物非政府组织、当地社区领袖和环保企业）绘制出不同类型的证据，讨论他们不同的和共同的价值观，并评估不同的空间风电场方案，为决策提供信息。项目的核心将有两个研讨会;第一个研讨会使用该领域丰富的现有数据，以建立对社会生态系统的共同理解。第二部分将探讨不同风力涡轮机配置方案下的生态系统服务权衡。这一项目将提供难得的机会，提供必要的互动，以加强企业和利益攸关方在真实的情况下对生态系统服务的理解，并在适当的时候立即实施。这可以给行业带来巨大的好处，因为商业计划可以更好地与不同利益攸关方的利益和共同价值观保持一致，增加对计划的支持，减少冲突的风险，提高公司的声誉。该项目还将帮助企业更好地考虑和理解生态系统为我们提供的许多服务的价值及其给人类福祉带来的好处，从而更可持续地利用海洋环境。