The Norwegian Nature Index

Norway's Nature Index is intended to document overall trends for the state of major ecosystems throughout the country, and to provide a readily available overview of whether Norway is making progress towards its goal of halting the loss of biodiversity.

Implementation

Reporting

Topics

Biodiversity
Indicators/criteria

Constraints

Product requirements

The Nature Index is designed to show trends in biodiversity in major ecosystems. It is based on a large number of indicators representing different aspects of biodiversity.
The Norwegian Government made the Norwegian Environment Agency responsible for developing a biodiversity index to document overall trends for major ecosystems and the species they support. The first edition of the Nature Index was published on 23 September 2010.

Advantages

The Nature Index is included in the Norwegian official set of indicators for sustainable development, presented annually in the reporting on sustainable development indicators. It will be considered, in cooperation with Statistics Norway, how results from the Nature Index can be applied for inclusion in Experimental Ecosystem Accounting and other approaches to supplement the national accounts with regard to biodiversity and ecosystems.
The results show the state of and trends in biodiversity for the following major ecosystems: forest, mires and wetlands, open lowland, fresh water, coastal waters, and the open sea. More detailed information is available in Norwegian, including results for individual regions and sea areas and thematic indices for various species groups, such as top carnivores, birds and fish.

Links

http://www.nina.no/english/Environmental-monitoring/The-Norwegian-Nature-Index

Contact details

NINA head office

Postal address: P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway Visiting address: Høgskoleringen 9, 7034 Trondheim, Norway Phone: +47 73 80 14 00 Telefax: +47 73 80 14 01 E-mail: firmapost@nina.no

The Norwegian Nature Index

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