OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Subtitle: Norway 2001
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD environmental performance reviews; OECD Environmental Performance Reviews
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789264195738
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology)
Description: This review of Norway's environmental conditions and policies evaluates progress in reducing the pollution burden, improving natural resource management, integrating environmental and economic policies, and strengthening international co-operation. The analyses presented are supported by a broad range of economic and environmental data.
Table of contents: title: Conclusions and Recommendations; title: 1. Environmental Management; title: -Increasing the Effectiveness of Environmental Policies; title: Water; title: Waste; title: 2. Towards Sustainable Development; title: -Integrating Environmental Concerns in Economic and Sectoral Policies; title: Integrating Social Concenrs into Environmental Policies; title: Sectoral Integration: Energy; title: 3. International Commitments; title: PART I. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; title: 1. Implementing Environmental Policies; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Institutional and Legal Framework; title: Regulatory Instruments; title: Economic Instruments; title: Other Instruments; title: Overall Environmental Policy; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Roles and Activities of Local Authorities; title: Environmental Taxes and Subsidies; title: Land-Use Planning; title: 2. Water Management; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Policy Objectives in the 1990s; title: Trends in the Use of Water Resources; title: Trends in Water Quality; title: Pressures on Water Quality from Agriculture and Aquaculture; title: Pressures on Water Quality from Municipal Waste Water; title: Pressures on Water Quality from Industry; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Economics of Waste Water Collection and Treatment; title: Combating Acidification; title: Aquaculture; title: 3. Waste Management; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Objectives and Institutional Framework; title: Waste Generation Trends; title: Management of Municipal Waste; title: Management of Non-Municipal Waste; title: Remediation of Contaminated Sites; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Policy Instruments for Decoupling Waste Generation from GDP; title: High Recovery Targets - Measures to Achieve Them; title: Legislation for Scrapping of Electrical and Electronic Products; title: 4. Nature Conservation and Biodiversity; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Objectives and Institutional Framework; title: Protected Areas; title: Biodiversity; title: Conserving Nature Outside Protected Areas; title: Protecting Watercourses; title: International Agreements; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Protecting Large Predators; title: Protecting Atlantic Salmon; title: Sustainable Forestry; title: PART II. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; title: 5. Environmental and Economic Interface; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Decoupling Economic Growth and Environmental Trends; title: Institutional Integration; title: Market-Based Integration; title: Environmental Expenditure and Financing; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Economic Context; title: Sectoral Environmental Integration; title: High-Level Commissions: Reports and Modelling; title: 6. Environmental-Social Integration; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Environmental Justice and Distribution; title: Environmental Employment; title: Environmental Democracy; title: Environmental Education and Awareness; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Social Context; title: The Petroleum Fund; title: Outdoor Recreation and Access to Nature; title: The Norwegian Environmental Education Network; title: 7. Energy and Environment; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Institutional Framework and Objectives; title: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Efficiency; title: Managing the Environmental Impacts of Energy Production; title: Managing the Environemntal Impacts of Energy Use; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Trends in Atmospheric Emissions from Energy Production and Use; title: Key Energy Trends; title: Economic Signals: Energy Pricing and Taxation; title: The National Debate on Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants; title: PART III. INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS; title: 8. International Cooperation; title: -1. Evaluation of Performance; title: Climate Change; title: Transboundary Air Pollution; title: Marine Environment; title: Management of Living Marine Resources; title: Environmental Development Aid; title: Bilateral and Regional Cooperation; title: Other Global Issues; title: 2. Focus on Selected Topics; title: Environmental Impacts of Offshore Activities; title: Sustainable Consumption of the Minke Whale; title: Annex IA. Selected Environmental Data; title: Annex IB. Selected Economic Data; title: Annex IC. Selected Social Data; title: Annex IIA. Selected Multinational Agreements (Worldwide); title: Annex IIB. Selected Multiantioanl Agreements (Regional); title: Annex III. Selected Environmental Events (1993-2000); title: Annex IV. The Physical Context