Renewable Energy Landscape

<p><strong>Winner of the 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Research Category)</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the 2017 VT ASLA Chapter Award of Excellence (Communications Category)</strong></p><p><em>The Renewable Energy Landscape</em> is a definitive guide to understanding assessing avoiding and minimizing scenic impacts as we transition to a more renewable energy future. It focuses attention for the first time on the unique challenges solar wind and geothermal energy will create for landscape protection planning design and management.</p><p>Topics addressed include: </p><ul> <li>Policies aimed at managing scenic impacts from renewable energy development and their social acceptance within North America Europe and Australia</li> <li>Visual characteristics of energy facilities including the design and planning techniques for avoiding or mitigating impacts or improving visual fit</li> <li>Methods of assessing visual impacts or energy projects and the best practices for creating and using visual simulations</li> <li>Policy recommendations for political and regulatory bodies</li> </ul><p>A comprehensive and practical book <em>The Renewable Energy Landscape</em> is an essential resource for those engaged in planning designing or regulating the impacts of these new critical energy sources as well as a resource for communities that may be facing the prospect of development in their local landscape.</p>