The Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources () is an

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

cabinet-level A cabinet in governing is a group of people with the constitutional or legal task to rule a country or state, or advise a head of state, usually from the executive branch. Their members are known as ministers and secretaries and they are ...

ministry founded on 23 February 1990. It was originally called the Ministry for the Environment but was renamed to its current name on 1 September 2012. The Ministry oversees a wide range of matters as they relate to the environment, including

nature conservation Nature conservation is the ethic/moral philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity. A range of values ...

wildlife protection Wildlife refers to undomesticated animals and uncultivated plant species which can exist in their natural habitat, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Wildlife was also ...

forest protection Forest protection is a branch of forestry which is concerned with the preservation or improvement of a forest and prevention and control of damage to forest by natural or man made causes like forest fires, plant pests, and adverse climatic con ...

and revegitation efforts,

environmental impact assessment Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is the assessment of the environmental impact, environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action. In this context, the te ...

land use planning Land use planning or ''Land-use regulation'' is the process of regulating the Land use, use of land by a central authority. Usually, this is done to promote more desirable social and environmental outcomes as well as a more efficient resource u ...

pollution control Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause harm. Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the component ...

and

environmental health Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural environment, natural and built environment affecting human health. To effectively control factors that may affect health, the requirements for a hea ...

fire prevention Fire prevention is a function of many fire departments. The goal of fire prevention is to educate the public on the precautions that should be taken to prevent potentially harmful fires from occurring. It is a proactive method of preventing fir ...

meteorology Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e. weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agricultur ...

, mapping, including

surveying Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the land, terrestrial Plane (mathematics), two-dimensional or Three-dimensional space#In Euclidean geometry, three-dimensional positions of Point (geom ...

and

remote sensing Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an physical object, object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation. The term is applied especially to acquiring inform ...

. The current Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources is

Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson (born 28 March 1977) is a former member of parliament (Althing, Alþingi) in Iceland. He served as Minister of Social Affairs (Iceland), Minister of Social Affairs and the Labour Market, and concurrently as Minister ...

Departments

The Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources of Iceland comprises six departments: * Department of Climate Action () * Department of Environment and Spatial Planning () * Department of Finance and Administration () * Department of Land and Natural Heritage () * Department of the Permanent Secretary () * Department of Policy Coordination and International Affairs ()

Agencies

Icelandic Meteorological Office Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO; ) is Iceland's national weather service and as such a government agency under the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. It is also active in volcano monitoring, esp. volcano seismology, and, toget ...

(''Veðurstofa Íslands'') * Environment Agency of Iceland (''Umhverfisstofnun'') * Iceland Construction Authority (''Mannvirkjastofnun'') *

Icelandic Forest Service The Icelandic Forest Service ( ) (IFS) is a subordinate agency to the Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources of the Government of Iceland. This governmental institution works not only with and for the government but also for the pu ...

(''Skógrækt ríkisins'') *

Iceland GeoSurvey Iceland GeoSurvey (ÍSOR) is a consulting and research institute providing specialist services to the Icelandic power industry, the Icelandic government and foreign companies, in particular in the field of geothermal sciences and utilisation. It a ...

(''Íslenskar orkurannsóknir'') * Icelandic Institute of Natural History (''Náttúrufræðistofnun Íslands'') * Icelandic National Planning Agency (''Skipulagsstofnun'') * Icelandic Recycling Fund (''Úrvinnslusjóður'') * Institute of Freshwater Fisheries (''Veiðimálastofnun'') * Myvatn Research Station (''Náttúrurannsóknastöðin við Mývatn'') * National Land Survey of Iceland (''Landmælingar Íslands'') * State Soil Conservation Service (''Landgræðsla ríkisins'') * Stefansson Arctic Institute (''Stofnun Vilhjálms Stefánssonar'') *

Vatnajökull National Park Vatnajökull National Park ( ) is one of three national parks in Iceland, and is the largest one. It encompasses all of Vatnajökull glacier and extensive surrounding areas. These include the national parks previously existing at Skaftafell in th ...

(''Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður'')

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources 1990 establishments in Iceland

Environment of Iceland

Environment Environment most often refers to: __NOTOC__ * Natural environment, referring respectively to all living and non-living things occurring naturally and the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism ...

Iceland, Environment and Natural Resources

Departments

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