RESEARCHERS >
Hank Venema, Ph.D.
Director – Sustainable Resource Management
International Institute for sustainable Development

Address:
161 Portage Avenue East,
6th Floor
Winnipeg, MB,
Canada 
R3B 0Y4

Contact:
Phone: 204.958.7706
Fax: 204.958.7710
Email:  hvenema@iisd.ca

Link to a website:
www.iisd.org/about/staffbio.aspx?id=277

Research Areas:
1) Landscape-based systems models for integrated rural development and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Dr. Venema directs IISD’s Sustainable Natural Resources Management Programme, which has a thematic focus on water and agricultural issues in Western Canada. Dr. Venema is a professional engineer and natural resource management consultant with extensive experience in rural development, environmental economics, water resources planning, and energy sector planning in North America, Africa, and Asia. Dr. Venema 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 recently received funding from Genome Canada to examine the genomic, economic, environmental, ethical, legal and social (GE³LS) issues pertaining to the production of biofeuls and bioproducts.