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This paper describes the development and implementation of the Norwegian monitoring programme for agricultural landscapes--the '3Q programme'. The main objective of the scheme is to indicate development trends in the agricultural landscape, and their consequences for spatial structure, biodiversity, cultural heritage and accessibility. The monitoring programme aims to give policy feedback and provide data to fulfill international reporting requirements. This paper describes the background to the programme and reasons behind the choice of methods. Results are presented to show the accuracy of the methods employed and the range of indicator values recorded in the programme. Strengths and limitations of the monitoring programme are discussed, and potential future improvements and developments are outlined. Although there remains a potential for methodological improvement, we stress the importance of establishing a baseline to enable the detection of development trends in a rapidly changing environment.
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Agriculture , Environmental Monitoring/methods , Cultural Characteristics , Ecosystem , Humans , Norway , Photography , Program DevelopmentABSTRACT
This article reports a survey conducted to measured serum cholesterol in pupils aged 13-16 years in a municipality in the county of Finnmark and in a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. Cholesterol levels were analysed and information was collected by questionnaire on eating habits, smoking habits and occurrence of cardiovascular disease in the family. We did not find any differences between the two communities in respect of cholesterol level, nor any relationship between eating habits and cholesterol level. Pupils with parents and/or grandparents with cardiovascular disease had a significantly higher cholesterol level than pupils with no such disease in their family.