Miljødirektoratet 999 601 391 PB 5672 Sluppen Trondheim 7485 Line-Kristin Larsen +47 73580500 Line-Kristin.Larsen@miljodir.no www.miljodir.no Vulnerability assessments — further development of methodology 2017/12896 This agreement is an expansion of the original agreement from 2015. According to the original agreement, methodology shall be tested in four locations per main ecosystem. To increase the variability in the range of area variety and thereby improve the methodology, we want to expand the number of locations for testing to a further eight protected areas. Three were carried out in 2017 and five shall be performed in 2018. The Contracting Authority also wants the methodology to communicate with NiN, therefore that the vegetation units and function areas for wildlife shall have a translation/link to nature types in Norway. This will give significant added value to the method as it enables the use of basic mapping in protected areas (NiN mapping) to identify vulnerable areas. 1800000.00 Nationwide. In connection with the work of visit management in Norwegian protected areas, the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) has developed a method to asses vulnerability of vegetation and wildlife connected to traffic in protected areas. All nature is vulnerable to traffic and will undergo wear and tear if the traffic is substantial enough. However, the resilience varies in line with typical variables such as humidity, terrain inclination, substrate, etc. Therefore, some types of vegetation, geology and species (wildlife) tolerate trampling and disturbance better than others. This project aims to identify the nature types that are vulnerable to traffic so as to avoid channelling traffic to areas that contain vegetation types or terrain that are particularly sensitive to trampling and/or avoid channelling traffic through function areas for wildlife that are sensitive to disturbance. The method shall be able to be used in all of Norway’s protected areas. Since Norway has a large variety of nature, the project is divided into four main ecosystems that shall cover this range of variation. The work will involve: — develop methodology for all main ecosystems; forest, mountains, coast and wetlands/bogs, — prepare a training programme, — prepare a handbook for vulnerability assessments per main ecosystem. The Norwegian Environment Agency considers that this contract comes under the exception for R&D services in the public procurement regulations § 2-5. The methodology to carry out vulnerability assessments of traffic in Norwegian nature, and particularly in Norwegian protected areas has been developed by NINA. Before the method can be used as a tool in the work with visit management there is still some work to be done with quality assurance, testing and other facilitation. Based on the above, it is considered that NINA possesses unique competence, data and information that is necessary to further develop and quality assure the relevant method before it is used. Vulnerability assessments — further development of methodology 2017-12-01 Norsk institutt for naturforskning Trondheim 1800000.00 Miljødirektoratet Trondheim www.miljodir.no 2017-12-12
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