Municipal environmental management

Updated: 17 June 2024

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Applications for motor traffic on uncultivated land approved
Applications for motor traffic on uncultivated land approved
2023
9 435
 
Environment and cultural heritage protection. Principal figures
Environment and cultural heritage protection. Principal figures1
2023Change from last year in per centChange in per cent
2020 - 2023
Applications under the Act relating to motor traffic on uncultivated land processed in municipalities (number)10 71718-21
Dispensations for motor traffic on uncultivated land approved (number)9 43511-23
Gross operating expenditure on recreation in urban areas, management of nature and outdoor life in municipalities (per capita. NOK)7651335
Gross operating expenditure on cultural heritage protection in county council districts (per capita. NOK)161-528
Granted applications for construction in LNFR areas (proportion. Per cent)80-17-14
1The statistics are based on the summation of reported figures from municipalities and county council districts. No estimations have been made to compensate for missing reporting.
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  • Municipal operating expenditure, revenue and capital expenditure regarding recreation within urban settlements, nature management, outdoor life and cultural heritage. 1000 NOK
    Municipal operating expenditure, revenue and capital expenditure regarding recreation within urban settlements, nature management, outdoor life and cultural heritage. 1000 NOK1
    Population. NumberRecreation in urban settlements (function account 335)Nature and outdoor management (function account 360)Cultural heritage (function account 365)
    Gross revenueGross operating expendituresGross capital expenditureGross revenueGross operating expendituresGross capital expenditureGross revenueGross operating expendituresGross capital expenditure
    20205 391 369531 0291 715 0801 564 620643 9531 335 343866 06653 528161 83823 024
    20215 425 270517 7091 980 0791 310 637664 8871 488 916786 47558 776186 96028 937
    20225 488 984523 4342 090 4421 714 078713 5391 635 421619 07452 814194 60735 966
    20235 550 203611 8912 357 0091 742 936759 2571 884 649646 19951 361207 94442 370
    1The statistics are based on the summation of reported figures from municipalities and county council districts. No estimations have been made to compensate for missing reporting.
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  • Motor traffic in outfields
    Motor traffic in outfields1
    Processing of applications for motor traffic in outfieldsSnowmobile routes2
    Processed applications. NumberApproved applications. NumberApplications rejected. NumberValid permits, including from previous years. NumberMunicipalities with snowmobile routes. NumberTotal distance of routes. Km
    201912 66810 29787223 361437 117.6
    202013 55412 26068225 869376 996.4
    202111 82510 81645325 069437 811.4
    20229 1138 49038525 619..8 699.8
    202310 7179 43552423 687..8 503.1
    1The statistics are based on the summation of reported figures from municipalities and county council districts. No estimations have been made to compensate for missing reporting.
    2As of 2019 the report also includes "snowmobile trails" for ice fishing and for for driving on icy watercourses in Nord-Troms and Finnmark.
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  • Number of reported zoning plans relating to municipal preservation of cultural heritage, landscape and protection of nature.
    Number of reported zoning plans relating to municipal preservation of cultural heritage, landscape and protection of nature.1
    2020202120222023
    Cultural heritage preservation
    Plans in force per December 314 7304 5894 9455 045
    Plans approved in the year of reporting198160154215
    Plans changed in the year of reporting and preservation purposes removed13133729
    Landscape preservation
    Plans in force per December 31879757795812
    Plans approved in the year of reporting34242729
    Plans changed in the year of reporting and preservation purposes removed04113
    Nature protection
    Plans in force per December 31834855929961
    Plans approved in the year of reporting26374043
    Plans changed in the year of reporting and preservation purposes removed16103
    1The statistics are based on the summation of reported figures from municipalities and county council districts. No estimations have been made to compensate for missing reporting.
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  • County council districts expenditure and revenue regarding cultural heritage and outdoor life etc. 1000 NOK
    County council districts expenditure and revenue regarding cultural heritage and outdoor life etc. 1000 NOK1
    Function account 716 Outdoor life, water region authority and management of game and inland fishFunction account 750 Cultural heritage
    Gross operating revenuesGross operating expendituresGross operating revenuesGross operating expenditures
    In totalIn totalPer capita. NOK2 In totalIn totalPer capita. NOK2
    2020165 476283 20760388 987681 931145
    2021156 515303 73464482 979812 616172
    2022181 241310 61165520 247928 535194
    2023167 645370 53277515 621893 255185
    2023
    County council district
    Viken46 546129 3369960 962137 393105
    Oslo000000
    Innlandet9 46320 6775551 01495 751254
    Vestfold og Telemark20 50343 95910182 831134 721311
    Agder27 45243 41513629 97586 641271
    Rogaland11 00432 4576534 28166 624133
    Vestland16 40930 63447113 963140 397216
    Møre og Romsdal10 36717 0906322 91047 054174
    Trøndelag Trööndelage11 60822 4354642 56859 023122
    Nordland8 31815 3066356 22184 656348
    Troms og Finnmark Romsa ja Finnmárku5 97515 2236220 89640 995168
    1The statistics are based on the summation of reported figures from municipalities and county council districts. No estimations have been made to compensate for missing reporting.
    2Figures for the whole country except Oslo
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About the statistics

Municipal and County Authorities Environmental Administration: Dispensations for motor traffic on uncultivated areas and watercourses. Protection of nature, landscape and cultural heritage. Energy consumption in municipal buildings. Gross operating expenses.

The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 7 June 2024.

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Classification of Norwegian municipalities by population size and economic workload 2020

The purpose of this report is to classify Norwegian municipalities according to three dimensions: Population size, economic workload and economic capacity. The measures of economic workload and capacity are estimated in a model of local government spending behaviour, and depend on variation in characteristics such as local government incomes, socio-demographic and geographic variables. The most extensive classification based on the three dimensions includes 17 groups. The resulting classification is based on data for 2018 and is compared to an earlier version based on data for 2013.

Name: Municipal environmental management
Topic: Nature and the environment

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Municipalities and Counties

Follows the dissemination of KOSTRA-indicators. (Municipality-State-Reporting, indicators)

Frequency: Annually

Preliminary figures: 15 March

Final figures: 15 June

Articles (analysis) with tables and graphs based on the figures will be announced.

Timeliness: Figures on the previous year, on the above given dates.

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Data are stored on NT-server as SAS-, XLS, ARCINFO cover, ESRI filgeodatabase files.

KOSTRA (Municipal-State-Reporting) - in general:

The objective is to coordinate and increase the efficiency of all municipal reporting to the national authorities, and provide the local and national authorities with vital directing information.

KOSTRA was established in 1995, as a pilot project. The number of municipalities and county authorities included in the reporting and dissemination system increased gradually up to 2001, when all were included. KOSTRA provides a web-portal for the reporting. In addition to the reported data from municiplaities and county authorities, the KOSTRA-indicators are based on register-data such as municipal accounts, manpower information and population data.

Cultural monuments and local environment:

The objective is to obtain information on the municipal efforts to protect cultural monuments and safeguarding local environment.

The County Authorities (the County Curator) is responsibel for the protection of cultural monuments, and functions as a supervisory body for the municipalities.

KOSTRA provides directing information on the municipalities and the county authorities. The most frequent users would be the municipalities themselves, other regional and national authorities, media and the general public.

The main principle is that no external users have access to statistics or analyses before they are announced in the statistics calendar and published available for everyone at www.ssb.no. This is one of Statistics Norway’s key principles for ensuring that all users are treated equally. The media is never given access to statistics or analyses prior to their release.

Data collection: Under the provisions of Local Government Act Section 49

Statistics compilation: Under the provisions of Statistics Act, Section 2.2

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Mandatory reporting for all municipalities and county authorities.

Data reported (web forms) from municipalities and county authorities on the following topics:

Municipal planning, building applications, mapping and surveying, recreational areas, management of nature resources and cultural monuments.

In addition to the above:

municipal accounts, number of inhabitants, length of coastline, cadastral information, protected areas and objects

Deadline: 15. February.

The data reported through the web-portal are subject to control in three stages: First stage is automatic controls embedded in the web-forms. Second stage is at the SSB data sink. Third stage is the audit performed by the variuos divisions responsibel for statistics and indicators.

The basic data (level 3 in KOSTRA) is mainly web form data (annual sums, averages) reported as abolute data. The key figures (level 2 in KOSTRA) are mainly ratios based on level 3 and other datasources.

Most of the key figures have weighted averages. For the absolute data used as key figures, the averages are arithmetic.

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Comparability over time and in space
KOSTRA includes figures from 1999. Statistics dissemination (Statistics Articles and tables in StatBank) startet in 2001 when all the municipalities and counties had joined KOSTRA . It has since 2001 been adjustments and expansions in questionnaires , thus not all time series go back to 2001. Any breaks in time series will be explained in footnotes to the tables.

Measurement errors in the data reported by the municipalities is believed to be main source of error. The controls embedded in the online forms, provide an automatic and instant feedback to the users.
Partial non-repons occurs in varying degrees for the various parts of the statistics. Non-respons on June 15 usually vary between 5-10 per cent, measured by number of municipalities.

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