The Ocean of Tomorrow Investment Assessment of Multi-Use Offshore Platforms: Methodology and Applications - Volume 1 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Koundouri, Phoebe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Environment & Policy, 56
• Subjects: Environment.; Renewable energy resources.; Aquatic ecology.; Building construction.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Sustainable development.; Environmental economics.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Economics.; Offshore Engineering.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.

This book develops and applies an integrated socio-economic assessment of multi-use offshore platforms in European marine locations. The sites assessed regard infrastructures in the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic coast. The assessment uses the results from the natu...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1: Introduction to the MERMAID Project
• Part I: Socio-economic Assessment of Multi-use Offshore Platforms
• Chapter 2: Methodology for Integrated Socio-economic Assessment of Multi-use Offshore Platforms
• Chapter 3: Socio-economic Assessment of a Selected Multi-use Offshore Site in the Baltic Sea
• Chapter 4: Socio-economic Assessment of a Selected Multi-use Offshore Site in the North Sea
• Chapter 5: Socio-economic Assessment of a Selected Multi-use Offshore Site in the Atlantic Sea
• Chapter 6: Socio-economic Assessment of a Selected Multi-use Offshore Site in the Mediterranean Sea
• Part II: Risk Analysis
• Chapter 7: Risk Analysis for the selected MERMAID final designs
• Chapter 8: Conclusions and Recommendations.