Henry David Venema, PhD
- Phone: (204) 958-7706
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Dr. Venema is a professional engineer, natural resource management consultant and expert speaker and presenter, with extensive experience in rural development, environmental economics, water resources planning, and energy sector planning in North America, Africa, and Asia. He directs IISD's Sustainable Natural Resources Management Program, which has a thematic focus on water and agricultural issues in Western Canada. He also leads IISD's current research on the Valuation of Natural Capital in Prairie Canada, Institutional Linkages between Payments for Ecosystem Services and Integrated Water Resources Management in Prairie Watersheds, and Governance Models for Lake Winnipeg Stewardship.
Dr. Venema is also the principal investigator of the NRCan-funded project, Adaptation as Resilience Building: A policy study of climate change vulnerability and adaptation on the Canadian Prairies, and co-directs the IDRC-funded project, Adaptive Policy-making for Agriculture and Water Resources in the Face of Climate Change. Other relevant Canadian project experience includes leading the first ever valuation of The Full Costs of Thermal Power in Eastern Canada, based on source-receptor modeling and health and climate externalities. In the international context, Dr. Venema was lead IISD researcher on the CIDA-funded project, Climate Change and Economic Changes in India: The impacts on agriculture, in partnership with The Energy and Resources Institute (New Delhi) and CICERO (Oslo).
His research on systems approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation has appeared in the Journal of Environmental Management, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change and Global Environmental Change, and has been widely cited by the IPCC's Third and Fourth Assessment Reports on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.
Dr. Venema also served as an expert consultant on cross-cutting issues and as a Working Group 2 (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability) reviewer for the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. His research has appeared in the international development, water resources, hydrology, operations research and renewable energy literature.
Education
- PhD in Physics and Civil Engineering: Universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba (gold medalist).
- PhD in Systems Design Engineering: University of Waterloo
- Master's Degree in Water Resources Engineering: University of Ottawa.
Languages
English and French.Publications
Prospects for Mainstreaming Ecosystem Goods and Services in International Policies
Paper: M.T.J Kok, S.R. Tyler, A.G. Prins, László Pintér, H. Baumuller, J. Bernstein, E. Tsioumani, Henry David Venema, Richard Grosshans, 2010Water Quality Trading in the Lake Winnipeg Basin: A multi-level trading system architecture.
Paper: Vivek Voora, Matthew McCandless, Dimple Roy, Bryan Oborne, Henry David Venema, 2010The Manitoba Challenge: Linking Water and Land Management for Climate Adaptation
Book: Henry David Venema, Bryan Oborne, Cynthia Neudoerffer, 2010Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Canada: Recommendations for Agricultural Sector Participation
Paper: Dimple Roy, Bryan Oborne, Henry David Venema, 2009Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Advancing the geoengineering debate at the Arctic Council
Paper: Bjørnar Egede-Nissen, Henry David Venema, 2009Indicators of Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change for Agriculture in the Prairie Region of Canada: Comparison with Field Observations
Paper: Darren A. Swanson, Jim Hiley, Henry David Venema, Richard Grosshans, 2009Indicators of Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change for Agriculture in the Prairie Region of Canada: An Analysis based on Statistics Canada's Census of Agriculture
Paper: Darren A. Swanson, Jim Hiley, Henry David Venema, Richard Grosshans, 2009Understanding Adaptive Policy Mechanisms Through Farm-level Studies of Adaptation to Weather Events in Alberta, Canada
Paper: Darren A. Swanson, Henry David Venema, Christa Rust, Jennifer Medlock, 2009Multi-Purpose Flood Protection: A rural-urban win-win
Commentary: Henry David Venema, 2009Understanding Adaptive Policy Mechanisms through Farm-level Studies of Adaptation to Weather Events in Saskatchewan, Canada
Paper: Dimple Roy, Henry David Venema, Darren A. Swanson, Kent Pearce, 2008Full Cost Accounting for Agriculture (Final Report) – Valuing public benefits accruing from agricultural beneficial management practices: An impact pathway analysis for Tobacco Creek, Manitoba
Paper: Matthew McCandless, Henry David Venema, Stephan Barg, Bryan Oborne, 2008Ecohealth and Watersheds: Ecosystem Approaches to Re-integrate Water Resources Management with Health and Well-being
Paper: Margot W. Parkes, Karen E. Morrison, Martin J. Bunch, Henry David Venema, 2008The Natural Capital Approach: A Concept Paper
Paper: Vivek Voora, Henry David Venema, 2008An Ecosystem Services Assessment in the Lake Winnipeg Watershed: Phase 1 Report – Southern Manitoba Analysis
Paper: Vivek Voora, Henry David Venema, 2008Research in Support of the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission's Hog Production Industry Review: Task 2 - Policy/Process Review - Conclusions/Recommendations
Paper: Bryan Oborne, Henry David Venema, Allen Tyrchniewicz, 2007Research in Support of the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission's Hog Production Industry Review: Task 1 - Analysis Framework for Total Nutrient Loading
Paper: Bryan Oborne, Henry David Venema, Allen Tyrchniewicz, 2007Put ecosystem to work: Restoring wetlands, managing watersheds could save Lake Winnipeg
Commentary: Henry David Venema, 2007Field Testing the Draft Canadian Biodiversity Index: A Report on Applying Real Ecosystem Data to the CBI
Paper: Richard Grosshans, Carol Murray, László Pintér, Risa Smith, Henry David Venema, 2006Full-cost Accounting for Agriculture – Year 2 Report: Valuing Changes in Agri-Environmental Indicators
Paper: Stephan Barg, Darren A. Swanson, Henry David Venema, 2005Valuing Changes in Agri-Environmental Indicators
Paper: Stephan Barg, Darren A. Swanson, Henry David Venema, 2005Paddling upstream – water management on the prairies
Commentary: Henry David Venema, 2005Seeing the Light: Adapting to climate change with decentralized renewable energy in developing countries
Book: Henry David Venema, Moussa Cisse, 2004Advancing Sustainable Development in Canada: Policy issues and research needs
Book: Stephan Barg, Aaron Cosbey, Heather Creech, William H. Glanville, Marlene Roy, Darren A. Swanson, Henry David Venema, Konrad von Moltke, 2003The Full Costs of Thermal Power Production in Eastern Canada
Paper: Henry David Venema, Stephan Barg, 2003More costly than we think
Commentary: Henry David Venema, Stephan Barg, 2003
Audio/Video
Hank Venema, discusses the need to look at water and land management differently than ever before.
Video Interview: Henry David Venema, Dave Wilkins (Interviewer), Jason E.J. Manaigre (Technical Producer), 2010
