Natural resources and the environment 1999

Statistics Norway compiles statistics on important natural resources and the state of the environment, and develops methods and models for analysing trends in the extraction and use of natural resources and changes in the state of the environment, focusing particularly on relationships between these factors and other economic developments. The annual publication Natural Resources and the Environment gives an overview of this work.

Natural Resources and the Environment 1999 contains updated resource accounts for energy and the latest figures for emissions to air. These are followed by articles and updated statistics on transport, waste management, water supplies and waste water treatment, agriculture, forests and forest damage, fisheries, and land use in urban settlements.

The book also describes results from Statistics Norway's research into resource and environmental economics. The 1999 edition includes articles on possible consequences of the Kyoto Protocol, energy use by households and industry and the relationship between status and growth. Finally, the appendix 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 1999.

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 Høie. The other members of the editorial committee were Karin Ibenholt and Knut Einar Rosendahl. This edition is being translated into English by Alison Coulthard and Veronica Harrington Hansen.