1 Key background reports for the update of the management plan for the Barents Sea–Lofoten area
Scientific basis for updating the management plan for the Barents Sea–Lofoten Area (drawn up for the interministerial steering group for the management plan by the Management Forum for the Barents Sea–Lofoten Area, the Forum on Environmental Risk Management and the Advisory Group on Monitoring, April 2010)
Accident in the Gulf of Mexico: assessment by the Forum on Environmental Risk Management, 2010
Economic analysis of future expansion of oil and gas activities in the Barents Sea–Lofoten Area (Report No. 20, Vista Analysis 2010)
Marine ecosystem services in the Barents Sea–Lofoten Area – description, assessment and valuation (Report No. 144 531 – 01, SWECO 2010)
Study of local and regional spin-off effects in connection with the updating of the integrated management plan for the Barents Sea–Lofoten Area (3rd edition, Asplan Viak/Nordland Research Institute 2010)
Descriptive analysis of population and industrial structure in North Norway (Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, June 2010)
Commercial importance of the fishing and aquaculture industry in the Barents Sea–Lofoten Area (Report No. 17, SNF, Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration 2010)
Background documents for the scientific basis:
Report of the Advisory Group on Monitoring 2010 (Fisken og havet, Special issue 1b, Institute of Marine Research 2010)
Report on a workshop on acute oil pollution and fish stocks (Report No. 4861, Akvaplan-niva AS 2009)
Effects of seismic surveying on fish distribution and gill-netting and longlining catch rates off the Vesterålen Islands in summer 2009 (Fisken og havet No. 2, Institute of Marine Research 2010)
Petroleum activities. Consequences of acute pollution for fish (Report No. 0527, Det Norske Veritas 2010)
Oil drift modelling in the Barents Sea–Lofoten Area, OS3D (Report No. 0241, Det Norske Veritas 2010)
Oil drift modelling in the Barents Sea–Lofoten Area, StormDrift, (Report No. 1, StormGeo 2010)
Consequences of oil spills for seabirds, marine mammals and the shoreline (Report No. 0539, Det Norske Veritas and Norwegian Institute for Nature Research 2010)
Consequences of petroleum activities and acute pollution from shipping and the petroleum industry for the fisheries (Report No. 200029–3, Acona Wellpro and Akvaplan-niva 2010)
Consequences of petroleum activities and acute pollution from shipping and the petroleum industry for tourism in the Lofoten and Vesterålen Islands (1st edition, Asplan Viak 2010)
Description of environmental technology (Norwegian Petroleum Directorate 2010)
Oil spill response system (report SINTEF F 15407, SINTEF/Acona Wellpro 2010)
Oil and gas resources in the waters off the Lofoten and Vesterålen Islands and Senja (Oljedirektoratet 2010)
Valuation of the consequences of acute pollution for society, (Project No. 999023, Petroleum Safety Authority Norway/Proactima 2010.)
Proposed scenarios for modelling the consequences of offshore oil spills in the Barents Sea–Lofoten Area (Project no. 999023, Petroleum Safety Authority Norway/Proactima 2010.)
In addition, a number of reports were produced as a basis for the 2006 management plan. All the background reports for the 2006 and 2011 white papers are available on the Ministry of the Environment’s website (in Norwegian only).