wind Power and Biodiversity seminar

1. Whispering Winds:
Can we negotiate
with Nature?
Compensanting and Offsetting impacts on
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services
Nuno Gaspar de Oliveira
CIGEST | Environment & Sustainability
ISG - Instituto Superior de Gestão | Business & Economics
School

2. Área de Ambiente
e Sustentabilidade
CIGEST - Centro de Investigação em Gestão do ISG/INP
desenvolve investigação aplicada, procurando estabelecer
uma forte ligação entre a teoria e a prática.
A investigação desenvolvida no CIGEST desde 2011 expressa-se
em quatro grandes áreas:
1) Economia e a Gestão
2) Ciências da Comunicação
3) Ergonomia e Factores Humanos
4) Ambiente e Sustentabilidade
Cada uma destas áreas subdivide-se em diferentes grupos,
integrando linhas de investigação diferenciadas, entre as quais
existem sinergias pontuais para dar resposta a determinados
projectos.
Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

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http://www.treehugger.com/clean-
technology/connecting-the-worlds-wind-farms.html

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7. Serviços Económicos /
Função de Produção
‘Humano’
Utilidade /
Segurança
Benefício /
Oportunidade
Provisão
Regulação
Cultural
Biodiversi
-dade
Bem-Estar
[Passado /
Actual /
Futuro]
Serviços dos
Ecossistemas
Objecto Objectivo Objectividade
Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

8. "Figure3. The economy as an open subsystem of the ecosystem" diagram from Herman Daly's Beyond Growth
book of 1996, page 49. The book says "Since the ecosystem remains constant in scale as the economy grows, it
is inevitable that over time the economy becomes larger relative to the containing ecosystem. This transition
from an ‘empty world’ to a ‘full world’ is depicted….”
Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

9. Figure 1. Three hypothetical landscapes illustrating the types and magnitude of services associated
with different types of ecosystems. Natural ecosystems can support many ecosystem services at high
levels, but not food production. An intensive cropland produces food in abundance, but
comparatively little of the other services. A managed cropland can support a broad portfolio of
ecosystem services (Foley et al. 2005, with permission).
Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

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http://envirocenter.yale.edu/programs/environmental-performance-management/environmental-
performance-index/

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12. http://www.aedb.br/seget/artigos08/196_196_196_VALORACAO_ECONOMICA_AMBIENTAL.pdf
Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

13. https://www.landuse.alberta.ca/Documents/LUF_Experimental_Evaluation_of_Offset_Design_Options_Summary_Report-
2011-11.pdf
Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

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16. Nuno Gaspar de Oliveira
Investigador ‘CIGEST | Ambiente e Sustentabilidade
ISG Business & Economics School
nunogoliveira@cigest.ensinus.pt
Telefone: 21 751 37 00 ext. 127
SKYPE: nuno.gaspar.oliveira
Linkedin: ngoliveira
Facebook: CIGEST