Offshore wind energy – sectoral marine plan: further research for social impact assessment

Footnotes

1 Scottish Government is considering how to engage local communities in the marine sector. Last year the participatory engagement and social research methods toolkit was published and is accessible here: Participatory engagement and social research: methods toolkit - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2 The draft plan SEIA reviewed as part of this project was not undertaken by AECOM. AECOM is therefore not responsible for the content or approach to the SEIA.

3 A full-time equivalent, sometimes abbreviated as FTE, is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week.

4 Of which 40-57 jobs located in Scotland while 17-24 are located outside Scotland.

5 Of which 5.4-7.7 are in Scotland and 1.3-1.9 are outside.

6 The most recent datasets available have been used for the Scottish national average. This includes: Scotland's Census (2023) and ONS (2021 and 2023).

7 Please note that Community Benefit Funds tend to be managed by the project developer, not by the Scottish Government as perceived by the participant.

8 Please note that this project was managed by the Edinburgh City Council, not by the Scottish Government as perceived by participants.

9 Procedural justice in the context of offshore wind refers to fairness in decision-making and policy-making. The principle of procedural justice is required to achieve social justice and enable those affected by a decision to have power in the decision-making process. Further information available at: Are climate policies fairly made? | Joseph Rowntree Foundation (jrf.org.uk)

10 SIMD is a measure of relative deprivation across data zones. Scotland is divided into 6,976 data zones. SIMD ranks these data zones from 1 (most deprived) to 6,976 (least deprived) in terms of overall deprivation and deprivation across seven different domains, including income, employment, crime and access to services. An area can be identified as ‘deprived’ if people have fewer resources, opportunities or low income for example. SIMD users often focus on the data zones below a certain rank, for example, the 5%, 10%, 15% or 20% most deprived data zones in Scotland. Further information on SIMD can be found at: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

11 Data zones are composed of Census Output Areas and are large enough that statistics can be presented accurately without fear of disclosure, but small enough that they can be used to represent communities.

12 Positive destinations are defined by Scottish Government as work, training or further study within three months of leaving school last year.

13 The SCQF is the national qualification framework for Scotland. It has 12 levels which indicate the level of difficulty of a particular qualification and the number of credit points indicates the length of time taken to complete. The level of difficulty increases from Level 1 (National 1 Scottish Qualification Authority) to Level 12 (Professional Development Award, Doctoral Degree and Professional Apprenticeships). Further information is available at: About the Framework | Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (scqf.org.uk)

14 Healthy life expectancy is the number of years a person can expect to live in good health, which differs from life expectancy estimates which are an average number of years a person can expect to live.

15 Job density is the level of jobs per resident aged 16-64. For example, a job density of 1.0 would mean that there is one job for every resident aged 16-64.