Group of Safety and Logistics of Maritime Transportation > 5.7 Economic and Technological Analysis of Maritime Clusters > Publications

Articles in Journals
 • Valadas Monteiro, P. (2016), “Fisheries and climate change: inevitability or prophylaxis? Contributing to a necessary debate”, Croatian Journal of Fisheries, Vol. 74, pp. 115-135

 • Castro-Santos, L., Martins, E. and Guedes Soares, C. (2016), “Cost assessment methodology for combined wind and wave floating offshore renewable energy systems”, Renewable Energy, Vol. 97, pp. 866-880

 • Castro-Santos, L., Martins, E. e Guedes Soares, C. (2016), “Methodology to calculate the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) of a floating offshore renewable energy farm”, Energies, Vol. 9, 2016, pp. 324-351

 • Salvador, R., Simoes, A. and Guedes Soares, C., “The Economic Features, Internal Structure and Strategy of the Portuguese Maritime Cluster”, Ocean and Coastal Management, 2016, Vol. 129, pp. 25-35

 • Valadas Monteiro, P. (2016), “The Role of knowledge-intensive service activities on inducing innovation in co-opetition strategies: lessons from the maritime cluster of the Algarve region”, International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, Vol. 15(1), pp. 78-95

 • Castro-Santos, L., Martins, E. and Guedes Soares, C. (2017), “Economic comparison of technological alternatives to harness offshore wind and wave energies”, Energy, Vol. 140, pp. 1121-1130

 • Castro-Santos, L., Silva, D., Bento, A.R., Salvação, N. and Guedes Soares, C. (2018), “Economic feasibility of wave energy farms in Portugal”, Energies, Vol. 11, pp. 31-49

 • Castro-Santos, L., Silva, D., Bento, A.R., Salvacao, N. and Guedes Soares, C. (2020), “Economic feasibility of floating offshore wind farms in Portugal”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 207, pp. 107393-1 - 107393-7

 • Castro-Santos, L., Bento, A.R. and Guedes Soares, C. (2020), “The economic feasibility of floating offshore wave energy farms in the North of Spain”, Energies, Vol. 13, pp. 806-1 - 806-19

 • Castro-Santos, L., Bento, A.R., Silva, D., Salvação, N. and Guedes Soares, C. (2020), “Economic feasibility of floating offshore wind farms in the north of Spain”, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol. 8(1), pp. 58-76

 • Diaz, H.M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2021), “A multi-criteria approach to evaluate floating offshore wind farms siting in the Canary Islands (Spain)”, Energies, Vol. 14, 865 (18 pages)

 • Silva, L.M.R. and Guedes Soares, C. (2021), “Oilfield development system optimization under reservoir production uncertainty”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 225, 108758 (14 pages)

 • Diaz, H.M., Serna, J., Nieto, J. and Guedes Soares, C. (2022), “Market needs, opportunities and barriers for the floating wind industry”, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol. 10, 934.

 • Filgueira-Vizoso, A., Castro-Santos, L., Iglesias, D.C., Puime-Guillén, F., Lamas-Galdo, I., Garcia-Diez, A.I., Uzunoglu, E., Diaz, H.M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2022), “The technical and economic feasibility of the CENTEC floating offshore wind platform”, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol. 10, 1344.

 • Diaz, H.M., Serna, J., Nieto, J. and Guedes Soares, C. (2022), “Market needs, opportunities and barriers for the floating wind industry”, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol. 10, 934.

 • Diaz, H.M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2023), Cost and financial evaluation model for the design of floating offshore wind farms, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 287, 115841

 • Diaz, H.M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2023), Approach for installation and logistics of a floating offshore wind farm, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol. 11(1), 53

 • Diaz, H.M., Silva, D., Bernardo, C. and Guedes Soares, C. (2023), Micro siting of floating wind turbines in a wind farm using a multi-criteria framework, Renewable Energy, Vol. 204, pp. 449-474

 • Diaz, H.M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2023), Decision-making model for the selection of floating wind logistic support ports, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 281, 114768

 • Yeter, B., Garbatov, Y., Brennan, F. and Kolios, A. (2023), Macroeconomic impact on the risk management of offshore wind farms, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 284, 115224

 • Li. H., Yazdi, M., Moradi, R., Pirbalouti, R.G. and Nedjati, A. (2023), Synergistic integration of hydrogen energy economy with UK’s sustainable development goals: A holistic approach to enhancing safety and risk mitigation, Fire, Vol. 6, 391

 • Wu, Y., Wu, H., Kang, H-S. and Li. H. (2023), Layout optimization of a tidal current turbine array based on quantum discrete particle swarm algorithm, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol. 11, 1994

 • Yazdi, M., Moradi, R., Pirbalouti, R.G., Zarei, E. and Li, H. (2023), Enabling safe and sustainable hydrogen mobility: Circular economy-driven management of hydrogen vehicle safety, Processes, Vol. 11, 2730



Articles in Books
 • Castro-Santos, L., Martins, E. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “Calculation of the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) of a wave energy converter”, Renewable Energies Offshore, Guedes Soares, C. (Ed.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 1003-1009

 • Diaz, H.M., Rodrigues, J.M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2016), “Preliminary cost assessment of an offshore floating wind farm installation on the Galician coast”, Progress in Renewable Energies Offshore, Guedes Soares, C., (Ed.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 843-850

 • Castro-Santos, L. and Guedes Soares, C. (2016), “Economic feasibility of floating offshore wave farms in Galicia”, Progress in Renewable Energies Offshore, Guedes Soares, C., (Ed.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 837-842

 • Simões, A., Salvador, R. and Guedes Soares, C. (2018), “Evaluation of the Portuguese ocean economy using the satellite account for the sea”, Guedes Soares, C. & Santos T.A., (Eds.), Progress in Maritime Technology and Engineering, Taylor and Francis, London, UK, pp. 63-68

 • Valadas Monteiro, P. and Noronha, T. (2020) , “Sustainable development of fisheries communities: The role of community-led local development policies”, Regional Intelligence - Spatial Analysis and Anthropogenic Regional Challenges in the Digital Age, Eric Vaz (Ed.), Springer, pp. 49-110.

 • Ramos, S., Diaz, H.M., Silva, D. and Guedes Soares, C. (2021), “Levelized Cost of Energy of offshore floating wind turbines in different case scenarios of the Madeira Islands”, Developments in Maritime Technology and Engineering, Guedes Soares, C. & Santos T.A., (Eds.), Taylor and Francis, London, UK, Vol 2, pp. 627-638.

 • Ramos, S., Diaz, H.M., Lavidas, G. and Guedes Soares, C. (2021), “Identifying compatible locations for wave energy exploration with different wave energy devices in Madeira”, Developments in Renewable Energies Offshore, Guedes Soares, C. (Ed.), Taylor and Francis, London, UK, pp. 111-122

 • Ramos, S., Diaz, H.M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2022), “Potential opportunities of multi-use blue economy concepts in Europe”, Trends in Maritime Technology and Engineering, Guedes Soares, C. & Santos T.A. (Eds.), Taylor and Francis, London, UK, Vol. 2, pp. 461-475.

 • Ramos, S., Silva, D. and Guedes Soares, C. (2023), Optimal configuration of the hybrid electric system in Porto Santo Island, Trends in Renewable Energies Offshore, Guedes Soares, C. (Ed.), Taylor and Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 777-786

 • Diaz, H.M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2023), Evaluation of shipyard selection criteria for floating wind developers, Trends in Renewable Energies Offshore, Guedes Soares, C. (Ed.), Taylor and Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 651-660



Articles in Conferences
 • Diaz, H.M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2021), “Micro-siting of floating turbines through multiple-criteria decision-making”, 40th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2021), 21-30 June, Virtual, Online, Paper: OMAE2021-63752.

 • Ramos, S., Goncalves, M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2021), “A Method for identifying compatible locations for wave energy exploration with different WECs”, 40th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2021), 21-30 June, Virtual online, Paper OMAE2021-62949.

 • Ramos-Marín, S., Caio, A. and Guedes Soares, C. (2024), Optimization of a hybrid electricity system in the Canary Island including marine renewable energies, 8th International Hybrid Power Plants & Systems Workshop (HYB 2024), 14-15 May, Azores, Portugal



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