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Metadata: 2009, Surfers Against Sewage, Guidance on environmental impact assessment of offshore renewable energy development on surfing resources and recreation
Abstract:
The aim of this report is to highlight the impacts offshore renewable energy development will have on surfing resources and recreation. Using data from a 2001 survey of surfers in Cornwall a profile of surfer's habbits has been drawn up, this along with UK and Australian surfer spending data has been used to project an estimate of the economic imput surfing has on UK surfing areas. An EIA study was carried out on Round 1 offshore sites and the effects on quality of surfing waves was negligible, however, when these results are scaled up to incorporate the larger Round 2 and Round 3 developments it is shown that they will have an effect on surfing wave quality and therefore potentialy harm the local economy or surfing regions.
Data holder:
Surfers Against Sewage
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 4682 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | 2009, Surfers Against Sewage, Guidance on environmental impact assessment of offshore renewable energy development on surfing resources and recreation |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 4adcc061738557b0bbc8af32c0e91726 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 3997 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2026-04-17 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2026-04-17 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | unknown |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The aim of this report is to highlight the impacts offshore renewable energy development will have on surfing resources and recreation. Using data from a 2001 survey of surfers in Cornwall a profile of surfer's habbits has been drawn up, this along with UK and Australian surfer spending data has been used to project an estimate of the economic imput surfing has on UK surfing areas. An EIA study was carried out on Round 1 offshore sites and the effects on quality of surfing waves was negligible, however, when these results are scaled up to incorporate the larger Round 2 and Round 3 developments it is shown that they will have an effect on surfing wave quality and therefore potentialy harm the local economy or surfing regions. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | The UK government is committed to delivering 15 per cent of all energy consumed by transport, heat and power generation from renewable sources by 2020. As of mid-2009, the UK generates less than 2 per cent of its energy from renewable sources and its total energy consumption is rising. Large-scale renewable energy development is required to achieve the 2020 target, and offshore renewable energy is expected to be a major contributor. Surfing is a growing recreational activity in the UK and is an important socio-economic contributor to the local and regional communities where waves are consistently surfable. The surfing community is concerned that offshore renewable energy development threatens surfing resources and recreation. To date, studies on surfing resources and recreation suggest that the impacts of offshore windfarm developments and tidal stream demonstrator projects are negligible and the impacts of wave demonstrator projects are small but of concern to surfers until proven otherwise by monitoring. However, the future developments proposed to deliver the 2020 target are substantially larger than those studied to date, which suggests the impacts on surfing are going to be larger too |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Research | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Research and Development Activity | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 60.767202863875 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 2.68743327034 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 49.039998103786 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -9.3331285579078 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Surfers Against Sewage | |
| Position name | Project Manager | |
| Phone | 001872 553001 | |
| Delivery point | Surfers Against Sewage, Wheal Kitty Workshops, St Agnes, Cornwall, TR5 0RD | |
| info@sas.org.uk | ||
| URL | www.sas.org.uk | |
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | Surfers Against Sewage | |
| Position name | Project Manager | |
| Phone | 001872 553001 | |
| Delivery point | Surfers Against Sewage, Wheal Kitty Workshops, St Agnes, Cornwall, TR5 0RD | |
| info@sas.org.uk | ||
| URL | www.sas.org.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Surfers Against Sewage | |
| Position name | Project Manager | |
| Phone | 001872 553001 | |
| Delivery point | Surfers Against Sewage, Wheal Kitty Workshops, St Agnes, Cornwall, TR5 0RD | |
| info@sas.org.uk | ||
| URL | www.sas.org.uk | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/264/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | no conditions apply |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2009-01-01 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2009-01-01 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-12 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2009-10-15 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | Version 2.3.5 |