Henning Hansen,

Henning I. Hansen is Coordinator of the IFEH Sustainability Indicator Initiative (SII) and a

member of the IFEH Council on behalf of The Danish Association of Environment and Nature Protection Officers - ENVINA Denmark.

As a professional body he is an Environmental Protection Officer, BSc, Eng (hon.) at Aarhus Municipality (Denmark).

In the period 1994 - 2002 Henning Hansen was the president of The Danish Association of Environmental Protection Officers. Starting in 1995 he was very dedicated to establish a common monitoring system on the use of indicators in Denmark at the local level which by the help of environmental indicator practionairs in many Danish municipalities and by the aid of the Danish EPA resulted in guideline no. 7 / 1997 for the Danish Ministry of the Environment /DEPA title: “Guideline on environmental indicators – a tool to monitor and to visualize the environmental performance.”

The Danish organisation back in 1996 became a member of the International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH) and it was recognized that the lack of using indicators, especially at the local level, was in fact a World Wide challenge. On that basis the IFEH in 2000 started a project on Sustainability Indicators.

By 2006 the IFEH went into collaboration with the IISD (International Institute of Sustainable Development). The IISD is running a Global Compendium on indicator initiatives http://www.iisd.org/measure/compendium  - and now all inputs to the IFEH initiative (IFEH Sustainability Indicators Initiative - SII) are being assembled in a common database hosted by the IISD.

About the International Federation of Environmental Health - IFEH
The Federation is an umbrella organisation for national Environmental Health organisations.
By now 37 national organisations around the World are full members  http://www.ifeh.org/scripts/member.asp?type=1 
-  6 associate me member organisations http://www.ifeh.org/scripts/member.asp?type=2
and 25 Academic Associate Member (Universities) http://www.ifeh.org/scripts/member.asp?type=3

The IFEH comprises more than 40.000 individual professional persons  in the area of environmental health.
The Federation works to disseminate knowledge concerning environmental health and promote co-operation between countries where environmental health issues are transboundary. It promotes the interchange of people working in this sector and the exchange of Member's publications of a scientific and technical nature.

Amongst other things, the Federation seeks to provide means of exchanging information and experience on environmental health, to hold Congresses and meetings to discuss subjects relevant to environmental health science and administration, to represent the interests of environmental health to state agencies, national governments and international organisations and to promote field studies of environmental health control.
The Federation is an organisation whose full members are national associations representing the interests of environmental health professionals throughout the World.
Other organisations with an interest in environmental health may become associate members.  Organisations, which are involved in the educational field (for instance Universities training environmental health professionals) are eligible to become Academic Associate Members.  Other bodies with an interest in environmental health (such as regional associations, NGOs, etc) may become Associate Members.

About Henning Hansen in brief.
Member of the Council of the International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH)
Coordinator IFEH – project on Sustainability Indicators. ( 2000 - 2006 )
Coordinator of the IFEH Sustainability Indicator Initiative (SII) ( since 2006  -   )
President of The Danish Association of Environmental Protection Officers (1994 - 2002 )
Author of guideline no. 7 / 1997 for the Danish Ministry of the Environment /DEPA title: “Guideline on environmental indicators – a tool to monitor and to visualize the environmental performance.”

Contact info:
Email: henning.hansen@ifeh.org

Phone (office): +45 8940 4535 (direct number)
Phone (private): +45 8692 6969

International Federation of Environmental Health
Chadwick Court, 15 Hatfields, London SE1 8DJ, UK

The Danish Association of Environment and Nature Protection Officers - ENVINA Denmark
Henning I. Hansen, Testrupvej 167, 8320 Maarslet, Denmark,

International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH) www.ifeh.org

IFEH Sustainability Indicator Initiative (SII) - website: http://www.ifeh.org/indicators and  http://www.ifeh.org/indicators/compendium

ENVINA Denmark. www.envina.dk

IISD www.iisd.org