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SUMMARY:The Norwegian Nature Index: Challenges and Successes - Per Arild &
  Iulie Aslaksen\, Statistics Norway
DTSTART:20131008T120000Z
DTEND:20131008T130000Z
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CONTACT:RSKD
DESCRIPTION:The aim of the Norwegian Nature Index is to provide an overvie
 w of the state of biodiversity within and across major ecosystems. The ind
 ex is composed of a series of indicators\, each representing individual sp
 ecies or diversity measures. The indicators are standardized and scaled in
  relation to a reference state\, and combined for ecosystems or geographic
 al regions\, to give a number between 1 (reference state) and 0 (seriously
  degraded biodiversity). In 2010\, when the Nature Index was developed for
  the first time\, the state of biodiversity was highest in mountains\, oce
 an\, coastal waters\, and freshwater\, intermediate for mires and wetlands
 \, and lowest for open lowlands and forests. Since its launch in September
  2010\, the Nature Index has been approved by the Ministry of Finance as a
 n indicator for biodiversity in the set of sustainable development indicat
 ors and approved by the Ministry of Environment as an indicator of the sta
 te of major ecosystems.In this seminar we give an overview of the conceptu
 al framework and methodology of the Nature Index and presents its main res
 ults. A challenge for future applications of the Nature Index framework fo
 r policy analysis and local nature management is to enhance the data quali
 ty for different geographical areas.
LOCATION:Seminar Room
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