Action plan for cultural heritage in the Nordic Arctic


The Nordic Council of Ministers (Denmark including the Faroe Islands and Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) adopted in 1999 an Action plan for nature and cultural heritage environment protection in the Nordic Arctic: Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard (Norway).

This action plan initiated a number of cooperation projects of which the following are particularly related to cultural heritage management and protection in these areas:

This last-named project was led by IPHC President Susan Barr with the secretariat sited in Norway at the offices of the Directorate for Cultural Heritage and was completed in 2004.

A copy of this report and the management guidelines are outlined in a paper that can be downloaded from the Nordic Council of Ministers website : http://www.norden.org/pub/miljo/miljo/sk/TN2005552.pdf.

The Summary of this report (p.105-109) is in English while the remainder is published in Norwegian. Picture captions are also in English.  There is also a summary in Icelandic and Greenlandic.

Information about other projects and publications can be obtained from the Nordic Council of Ministers website at: http://www.norden.org/pub/miljo/miljo/sk/index.asp  (Some of the publications are only in Nordic languages).  October 2005




International Polar Heritage Committee
President - Susan Barr, Directorate for Cultural Heritage
P O Box 8196 Dep, N-0034 Oslo, Norway
Phone: +47 - 22 94 04 00
Secretary General - Paul Chaplin
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