Greenland: a country in transition

On 4 August 1948, in Godthåb/Nuuk, Greenland, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Denmark's modern Arctic policy was founded. The political initiator was Hans Hedtoft, the Danish Prime Minister. The centre of Denmark's Arctic policy is Greenland, but our policy is not a Greenland policy on...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Høyem, Tom
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1988
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Arctic
Greenland
Nuuk
Godthåb
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400022294
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400022294
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Summary:On 4 August 1948, in Godthåb/Nuuk, Greenland, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Denmark's modern Arctic policy was founded. The political initiator was Hans Hedtoft, the Danish Prime Minister. The centre of Denmark's Arctic policy is Greenland, but our policy is not a Greenland policy only. Arctic policies are about people and nature, about resources and security, about high technology and traditional Arctic patterns of life. In a high degree they are a matter of cooperation between the local population and the state authorities. All these elements were present when the Danish Prime Minister presented his modern Arctic policy in August 1948.

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