Greenland

Contents

Knowledge creates understanding, insight and criteria
Preface by the Danish Minister for the Environment Hans Christian Schmidt and member of the Greenlandic Cabinet Edward Geisler

Introduction
By the Danish Environmental Agency

Cooperation on major problems
No tradition for maintenance of housing and institutional buildings

The sins of the past
Refurbishment to make people's homes healthier

The builder from Nuuk
Shoddy building and building stop

Energy in Geenland
Hydropower is the answer - what was the question?

Water and energy consumption in Greenland
Waste water or save it?

Specialising in everything
Initiative is the key word in the training of building tradesmen in Greenland

Housing conditions and tuberculosis
Tuberculosis cannot be eradicated but only kept down

Myths and opinions on public health in greenland
Changes in lifestyle reveal the same picture everywhere in the Arctic

Public health in sisimiut
Healthy habits produce a healthy body

The diet along the coast
What is real Greenlandic food?

Fat in greenland - too little and too much
Traditional Greenlandic food contains the right kind of fat

A mixed diet
Heavy metals accumulate in the liver, and POPs in fatty tissue

Hormone-disturbing environmental chemical toxins
Danger signal from Tromsø

Sheep farming and sustainable development
By the book: The Brundtland Report

Essential communication in a new age
The work of a nature guide in Greenland

The world's largest island
Data on Greenland

Projects