Municipal environmental management

Updated: 29 June 2023

Next update: Not yet determined

Applications for motor traffic on uncultivated land approved
Applications for motor traffic on uncultivated land approved
2022
8 490
Environment and cultural heritage protection. Principal figures
Environment and cultural heritage protection. Principal figures1
2022Change from last year in per centChange in per cent
2019 - 2022
Applications under the Act relating to motor traffic on uncultivated land processed in municipalities (number)9 113-23-28
Dispensations for motor traffic on uncultivated land approved (number)8 490-22-18
Gross operating expenditure on recreation in urban areas, management of nature and outdoor life in municipalities (per capita. NOK)679633
Gross operating expenditure on cultural heritage protection in county council districts (per capita. NOK)1691352
Granted applications for construction in LNFR areas (proportion. Per cent)9621
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
    20195 367 580417 7211 521 3201 796 595536 5731 216 648621 36757 585166 03145 324
    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 4332 090 4171 717 046713 9911 635 602619 07452 814194 60235 966
    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
    201811 58710 01170823 794465 837
    201912 66810 29787223 361437 118
    202013 55412 26068225 869376 996
    202111 82510 81645325 069498 631
    20229 1138 49038525 619....
    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
    2019202020212022
    Cultural heritage preservation
    Plans in force per December 314 8024 7304 5894 945
    Plans approved in the year of reporting173198160154
    Plans changed in the year of reporting and preservation purposes removed14131337
    Landscape preservation
    Plans in force per December 311 000879757795
    Plans approved in the year of reporting29342427
    Plans changed in the year of reporting and preservation purposes removed70411
    Nature protection
    Plans in force per December 31826834855929
    Plans approved in the year of reporting50263740
    Plans changed in the year of reporting and preservation purposes removed161610
    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
    2019124 511278 58860338 200595 523128
    2020165 476283 20760388 987681 931145
    2021156 515303 73464482 979812 616172
    2022181 241310 61165520 247928 535194
    2022
    County council district
    Viken49 479113 6688871 706136 931106
    Oslo000000
    Innlandet7 6259 9422753 94576 051204
    Vestfold og Telemark16 79424 7305857 564146 378341
    Agder36 63036 46511533 634115 184364
    Rogaland15 28733 8556943 59668 435139
    Vestland24 21935 74855114 210142 415220
    Møre og Romsdal9 72114 1415325 07349 161183
    Trøndelag Trööndelage9 89219 5764145 70369 820146
    Nordland5 9679 2983947 40580 765335
    Troms og Finnmark Romsa ja Finnmárku5 62713 1885427 41143 395179
    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.

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Classification of Norwegian municipalities by population size and economic workload 2013

http://www.ssb.no/en/offentlig-sektor/artikler-og-publikasjoner/gruppering-av-kommuner-etter-folkemengde-og-okonomiske-rammebetingelser-2013

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 29 groups. The resulting classification is based on data for 2013 and is compared to an earlier version based on data for 2008.

Name: Municipal environmental management
Topic: Nature and the environment

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Municipalities and County Authorities

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-rRporting) - 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 poject. 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.

See also: http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/00/00/20/kostra_en/

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 municiplaities.

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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