Natural resources and the environment 1996

Statistics Norway compiles statistics on important natural resources and the state of the environment, and develops methods and models for analysing relationships between the environment, natural resource use and economic developments. The annual publication Natural Resources and the Environment gives an overview of this work.

Natural Resources and the Environment 1996 consists of three main parts. Part I contains updated resource accounts for energy and the latest official figures for emissions to air. These are followed by articles and updated statistics on fishing, sealing and whaling, forests and forest damage, agriculture, waste water treatment and waste management. The last chapter describes the results of surveys of how people experience noise and pollution in their local environment and at work. Part II presents results from Statistics Norway's research into resource and environmental economics. The main emphasis is on analyses of the environment and economic growth, management of the environment and natural resources and international analyses. Part Ill provides more detailed statistics in the form of tables. Statistics Norway would like to thank the people and institutions who have supplied data for Natural Resources and the Environment 1996.

The report is a joint publication by the Division for Environmental Statistics, Department of Economic Statistics, and the Resource and Environmental Economics Division, Research Department, and was edited by Henning Hoie. Part II was prepared by an editorial committee consisting of Torstein Bye, Sverre Grepperud and Solfrid Malo. Alison Coulthard (part I, part II, 3.1 and 3.2, and part Ill) and Janet Aagenæs (rest of part II) have translated the Norwegian version into English.

Statistics Norway Oslo/Kongsvinger,

15 May 1996

Svein Longva