Natural resources and the environment 1993

Statistics Norway (SN) compiles statistics on the state of the environment, as well as accounts for a number of important resources. Statistics Norway also develops methods and models to analyze the inter-relationships between socio-economic conditions, use of resources, and environmental conditions. The publication Natural Resources and the Environment contains an annual concentrated overview of this work.

Natural Resources and the Environment 1993 presents updated resource accounts for energy and emissions accounts for emissions to air, and some results of analyses based on these accounts. The report also includes key figures for fishing, sealing and whaling, agricultural pollution, forest resources and forest damage, municipal waste water treatment plants and waste management.

Statistics Norway wishes to thank all the institutions that have supplied data for Natural Resources and the Environment 1993. The report is a joint publication from the Division for Resource Accounts and Environmental Statistics, Department of Economic Statistics, and the Natural Resources Division, Research Department. It summarizes much of the activities of these divisions during the last year.

The report has been prepared by an editorial committee consisting of Ola K. Hunnes, who has administered the work, and Knut H. Alfsen, Tor Arnt Johnsen, Kanine Nyborg, Toril Austbo, Per Schoning (up to 31 December 1993) and Henning Hole (from 1 January 1994). Mary Bærum has translated the Norwegian version into English. A comprehensive description of natural resources, pollution and the state of the environment in Norway will be presented in "Naturmiljøet i tall 1994" (The natural environment in figures, 1994), a report prepared by the Directorate for Nature Management, the State Pollution Control Authority and Statistics Norway jointly. This publication will be available in June 1994 (In Norwegian).

Statistics Norway Oslo/Kongsvinger

5 April 1994

Svein Longva