A fragile coast

This painting portrays the oil industry as a threat to the traditional coastal culture. Rolf Groven, Olje og fisk, 1996. Rolf Groven/BONO 2008.
This painting portrays the oil industry as a threat to the traditional coastal culture. Rolf Groven, Olje og fisk, 1996. Rolf Groven/BONO 2008.

The world today is faced by serious challenges regarding limited natural resources, environmental pressure, and climate change. These are all problem areas that markedly affect Norway as a coastal nation, and it is a heavy and important responsibility to manage the coastal environment and the vast marine resources that Norway controls in such a way that they will be a source of economic wealth and peaceful leisure activity also for the coming generations.

Mismanagement can have extensive consequences, not only in Norway but also much further afield. Picture: The oil industry has been an important source of Norwegian economic growth in the last decades, but it has simultaneously been a challenge for fishery and environment. This painting portrays the oil industry as a threat to the traditional coastal culture. Rolf Groven, Olje og fisk, 1996.©Rolf Groven/BONO 2008.

 
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