Residents’ Views on Landscape and Ecosystem Services during a Wind Farm Proposal in an Island Protected Area
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area and Context
2.2. Questionnaire Development and Application
3. Results
3.1. General
3.2. Ecosystem Services Ranking
3.3. Preferences
3.4. Anthropogenic Pressures and Threats and the Wind Farm Proposal
4. Discussion
4.1. Limitations of the Study
4.2. Ecosystem Services Rapid Assessment
4.3. Aesthetic Values and Landscape "Wildness" Are Important
4.4. Perceived Anthropogenic Pressures and Threats
4.5. Wind Farm "Conflict Hotspots" in Protected Areas
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Category | No of Respondents | Gender | Age Group | ||||||
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Female | Male | 18–25 | 26–35 | 36–45 | 46–55 | 56–65 | 66+ | ||
Tourism | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
Services | 25 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
Agriculture | 17 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Local Authority | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Other | 23 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 4 |
Total | 98 | 34 | 64 | 1 | 19 | 26 | 24 | 18 | 10 |
Percentage | 100% | 35% | 65% | 1% | 19.4% | 26.5% | 24.5% | 18.4% | 10.2% |
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Vlami, V.; Danek, J.; Zogaris, S.; Gallou, E.; Kokkoris, I.P.; Kehayias, G.; Dimopoulos, P. Residents’ Views on Landscape and Ecosystem Services during a Wind Farm Proposal in an Island Protected Area. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2442. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062442
Vlami V, Danek J, Zogaris S, Gallou E, Kokkoris IP, Kehayias G, Dimopoulos P. Residents’ Views on Landscape and Ecosystem Services during a Wind Farm Proposal in an Island Protected Area. Sustainability. 2020; 12(6):2442. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062442
Chicago/Turabian StyleVlami, Vassiliki, Jan Danek, Stamatis Zogaris, Eirini Gallou, Ioannis P. Kokkoris, George Kehayias, and Panayotis Dimopoulos. 2020. "Residents’ Views on Landscape and Ecosystem Services during a Wind Farm Proposal in an Island Protected Area" Sustainability 12, no. 6: 2442. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062442
APA StyleVlami, V., Danek, J., Zogaris, S., Gallou, E., Kokkoris, I. P., Kehayias, G., & Dimopoulos, P. (2020). Residents’ Views on Landscape and Ecosystem Services during a Wind Farm Proposal in an Island Protected Area. Sustainability, 12(6), 2442. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062442