Daniel Henstra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Henstra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Henstra |
| SIGNATURE | HENSTRA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0224-9152 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Flood adaptation policy alignment with resident perceptions of resilience in Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver’s municipal government calls on residents to shoulder some responsibility for flood resilience by directly participating in financing and implementing adaptation measures. This study aims to understand residents’ perceptions of resilience and how it should be pursued. Through an in-person survey (n = 200) we assess how resilience is typically understood by residents and which unique conceptualization (resilience as resistance, recovery,…
Assessing the environmental justice implications of seismic risk in Ottawa-Gatineau and Montreal metropolitan areas
This study investigates distributive environmental injustices in seismic risk exposure across urban areas of Ottawa-Gatineau and Montreal, testing the hypothesis that socially vulnerable communities face disproportionate seismic hazards. Using geographically aggregated data from Canada's probabilistic seismic risk model and the 2021 national census, we examine spatial heterogeneity in the relationships between race/ethnicity, socioeconomic vulner…
Flood risk management policies and conceptualizations of resilience in Vancouver, Canada
Navigating land use after managed retreat
Conceptualizing and evaluating the role of a data platform as an entry-point for strengthening flood risk governance in Canada
Evaluating the quality of municipal strategic plans
Evaluating the integration of transportation planning in municipal official plans
Municipal official plans are useful for mainstreaming transportation objectives into local development planning and decision-making processes. Using a plan quality evaluation, this article assesses whether and how well transportation planning is integrated in municipal official plans of the 30 most populous municipalities in Canada. The results suggest this integration is weak, with a notable absence of rigorous data to inform transportation cont…
The influence of international agreements on disaster risk reduction
The Evaluation Marketplace in Canada
This study examined the key qualifications—education, knowledge areas, professional qualities, skills, and tasks—demanded of evaluators by employers in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Through a content analysis of 50 employment advertisements, it found that the qualifications demanded by employers generally align with the skills identified as important in the evaluation literature and with competencies identified by the Canadian …
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada
Governance of flood risk data
Competing in the Planning Marketplace
This study sought to understand the knowledge, skills, qualities, and tasks that municipal employers expect from planners and to assess how well they align with those identified as important by academic scholars and accreditation bodies. Through a content analysis of 150 municipal planning employment advertisements collected from across Canada, the study identified the planning-relevant qualifications demanded by municipal governments. The analys…
A place-based socioeconomic status index
Evaluating the suitability of policy instruments for urban flood risk reduction
City governments have access to a range of policy instruments to reduce flood risk, but choosing among these tools is challenging. This article identifies fourteen different policy instruments that could contribute to urban flood risk reduction and draws on interviews with expert stakeholders to score these instruments across eight evaluation criteria. The results indicate which policy tools the interviewees consider to be most and least suitable…
Sub-national government efforts to activate and motivate local climate change adaptation
Managing urban flood risk
To manage urban flood risk, city governments must adopt a mix of policy instruments that reduces flood-related impacts and shares responsibility and costs with a broad range of stakeholders. Choosing among these instruments is challenging, however, because they differ in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and other considerations. This article presents results from a study that engaged local government experts to assess the relative suit…
Evaluating the quality of municipal climate change plans in Canada
Urban resilience implementation
International audience
Applying a Typology of Governance Modes to Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change adaptation is a complex field of public policy that requires action by multiple levels of government, the private sector, and civil society. In recent years, increasing scholarly attention has been focused on the governance of adaptation, which has included exploring alternatives to state-centric models of decision-making and identifying appropriate roles and responsibilities of multiple actors to achieve desired outcomes. Scholars…
Federal policy ideas and involvement in Canadian urban transit, 2002‐2017
Although provincial and local governments bear primary responsibility for urban transit projects and operations in Canada, the Government of Canada engages intermittently in this policy field, mainly through research and short‐term funding programs. This article analyzes federal policy concerning urban transit over the period 2002‐2017, with a substantive focus on policy ideas—the cognitive and normative concepts that provide direction for, and s…
Climate Adaptation in Canada
Climate adaptation is a complex policy area, in which knowledge, authority, and resources are fragmented among numerous public agencies, multiple levels of government, and a wide range of nongovernmental actors. Mobilizing and coordinating disparate public and private efforts is a key challenge in this policy domain, and this has focused research attention on the governance of adaptation, including the dynamics of interaction among interests and …
Studying local climate adaptation
Charles Conteh, Policy Governance in Multi-level Systems
Editor: LOUISE K. COMFORT University of Pittsburgh, USARegional economic development is a complex and contentious field of public policy, particularly in federal states, where the ideas and interes
Toward the Climate-Resilient City
Extreme weather events, such as unusually high or low temperatures, severe winds and heavy precipitation, pose a threat to people and property in cities, and are expected to become more frequent and intense as a result of climate change. Managing this risk requires effective climate adaptation policies – strategic courses of action designed to strengthen urban resilience to climate-related stress. City governments have a key role to play in adapt…
The Dynamics of Policy Change
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Studying local climate adaptation
Explaining local policy choices
Canadian municipal governments are expected to play a central role in emergency management, which involves developing policies and programs to cope with emergencies and their impacts. But although all communities face potential emergencies, the quality of municipal emergency planning varies considerably from one community to another. This suggests that some municipal decision‐makers have recognized emergencies as a problem and have prioritized th…
Canadian Disaster Management Policy
In light of rising disaster losses in recent years and predictions of a more hazardous natural environment in the future, many countries around the world are revising their policies for disaster management to incorporate a stronger emphasis on disaster mitigation and risk reduction. In this paper, we argue that Canada has not sufficientl y integrated mitigation into disaster management and we discuss several barriers that impede progress in this …
Toward the Climate-Resilient City
Extreme weather events, such as unusually high or low temperatures, severe winds and heavy precipitation, pose a threat to people and property in cities, and are expected to become more frequent and intense as a result of climate change. Managing this risk requires effective climate adaptation policies – strategic courses of action designed to strengthen urban resilience to climate-related stress. City governments have a key role to play in adapt…
Climate Adaptation in Canada
Climate adaptation is a complex policy area, in which knowledge, authority, and resources are fragmented among numerous public agencies, multiple levels of government, and a wide range of nongovernmental actors. Mobilizing and coordinating disparate public and private efforts is a key challenge in this policy domain, and this has focused research attention on the governance of adaptation, including the dynamics of interaction among interests and …
The Dynamics of Policy Change
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Federal emergency management in Canada and the United States after 11 September 2001
Research in the field of emergency management indicates that pre‐disaster mitigation can significantly reduce the costs of post‐disaster reconstruction and recovery. Yet, it is often difficult for disaster mitigation advocates to garner the support of policy‐ and decision‐makers, who tend to focus on other community concerns. Interest in disaster mitigation tends to be highest during the period immediately following a major disaster, when public …
Competing in the Planning Marketplace
This study sought to understand the knowledge, skills, qualities, and tasks that municipal employers expect from planners and to assess how well they align with those identified as important by academic scholars and accreditation bodies. Through a content analysis of 150 municipal planning employment advertisements collected from across Canada, the study identified the planning-relevant qualifications demanded by municipal governments. The analys…
Applying a Typology of Governance Modes to Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change adaptation is a complex field of public policy that requires action by multiple levels of government, the private sector, and civil society. In recent years, increasing scholarly attention has been focused on the governance of adaptation, which has included exploring alternatives to state-centric models of decision-making and identifying appropriate roles and responsibilities of multiple actors to achieve desired outcomes. Scholars…
Federal policy ideas and involvement in Canadian urban transit, 2002‐2017
Although provincial and local governments bear primary responsibility for urban transit projects and operations in Canada, the Government of Canada engages intermittently in this policy field, mainly through research and short‐term funding programs. This article analyzes federal policy concerning urban transit over the period 2002‐2017, with a substantive focus on policy ideas—the cognitive and normative concepts that provide direction for, and s…
Flood risk management policies and conceptualizations of resilience in Vancouver, Canada
Federal emergency management in Canada and the United States after 11 September 2001
Research in the field of emergency management indicates that pre‐disaster mitigation can significantly reduce the costs of post‐disaster reconstruction and recovery. Yet, it is often difficult for disaster mitigation advocates to garner the support of policy‐ and decision‐makers, who tend to focus on other community concerns. Interest in disaster mitigation tends to be highest during the period immediately following a major disaster, when public …
Canadian Disaster Management Policy
In light of rising disaster losses in recent years and predictions of a more hazardous natural environment in the future, many countries around the world are revising their policies for disaster management to incorporate a stronger emphasis on disaster mitigation and risk reduction. In this paper, we argue that Canada has not sufficientl y integrated mitigation into disaster management and we discuss several barriers that impede progress in this …
Explaining local policy choices
Canadian municipal governments are expected to play a central role in emergency management, which involves developing policies and programs to cope with emergencies and their impacts. But although all communities face potential emergencies, the quality of municipal emergency planning varies considerably from one community to another. This suggests that some municipal decision‐makers have recognized emergencies as a problem and have prioritized th…
Evaluating Local Government Emergency Management Programs
Local governments play a key role in emergency management by developing the necessary policies and concrete procedures for responding effectively to community emergencies and their aftermath. However, because emergency measures in most jurisdictions are rarely, if ever, activated, public managers find it difficult to evaluate and assess the quality of existing emergency management programs. Drawing on expert literature to identify 30 elements of …
The Dynamics of Policy Change
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Toward the Climate-Resilient City
Extreme weather events, such as unusually high or low temperatures, severe winds and heavy precipitation, pose a threat to people and property in cities, and are expected to become more frequent and intense as a result of climate change. Managing this risk requires effective climate adaptation policies – strategic courses of action designed to strengthen urban resilience to climate-related stress. City governments have a key role to play in adapt…
Charles Conteh, Policy Governance in Multi-level Systems
Editor: LOUISE K. COMFORT University of Pittsburgh, USARegional economic development is a complex and contentious field of public policy, particularly in federal states, where the ideas and interes
Studying local climate adaptation
Climate Adaptation in Canada
Climate adaptation is a complex policy area, in which knowledge, authority, and resources are fragmented among numerous public agencies, multiple levels of government, and a wide range of nongovernmental actors. Mobilizing and coordinating disparate public and private efforts is a key challenge in this policy domain, and this has focused research attention on the governance of adaptation, including the dynamics of interaction among interests and …
Urban resilience implementation
International audience
Applying a Typology of Governance Modes to Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change adaptation is a complex field of public policy that requires action by multiple levels of government, the private sector, and civil society. In recent years, increasing scholarly attention has been focused on the governance of adaptation, which has included exploring alternatives to state-centric models of decision-making and identifying appropriate roles and responsibilities of multiple actors to achieve desired outcomes. Scholars…
Federal policy ideas and involvement in Canadian urban transit, 2002‐2017
Although provincial and local governments bear primary responsibility for urban transit projects and operations in Canada, the Government of Canada engages intermittently in this policy field, mainly through research and short‐term funding programs. This article analyzes federal policy concerning urban transit over the period 2002‐2017, with a substantive focus on policy ideas—the cognitive and normative concepts that provide direction for, and s…
Evaluating the quality of municipal climate change plans in Canada
A place-based socioeconomic status index
Evaluating the suitability of policy instruments for urban flood risk reduction
City governments have access to a range of policy instruments to reduce flood risk, but choosing among these tools is challenging. This article identifies fourteen different policy instruments that could contribute to urban flood risk reduction and draws on interviews with expert stakeholders to score these instruments across eight evaluation criteria. The results indicate which policy tools the interviewees consider to be most and least suitable…
Sub-national government efforts to activate and motivate local climate change adaptation
Managing urban flood risk
To manage urban flood risk, city governments must adopt a mix of policy instruments that reduces flood-related impacts and shares responsibility and costs with a broad range of stakeholders. Choosing among these instruments is challenging, however, because they differ in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and other considerations. This article presents results from a study that engaged local government experts to assess the relative suit…
Governance of flood risk data
Competing in the Planning Marketplace
This study sought to understand the knowledge, skills, qualities, and tasks that municipal employers expect from planners and to assess how well they align with those identified as important by academic scholars and accreditation bodies. Through a content analysis of 150 municipal planning employment advertisements collected from across Canada, the study identified the planning-relevant qualifications demanded by municipal governments. The analys…
The influence of international agreements on disaster risk reduction
The Evaluation Marketplace in Canada
This study examined the key qualifications—education, knowledge areas, professional qualities, skills, and tasks—demanded of evaluators by employers in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Through a content analysis of 50 employment advertisements, it found that the qualifications demanded by employers generally align with the skills identified as important in the evaluation literature and with competencies identified by the Canadian …
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada
Evaluating the quality of municipal strategic plans
Evaluating the integration of transportation planning in municipal official plans
Municipal official plans are useful for mainstreaming transportation objectives into local development planning and decision-making processes. Using a plan quality evaluation, this article assesses whether and how well transportation planning is integrated in municipal official plans of the 30 most populous municipalities in Canada. The results suggest this integration is weak, with a notable absence of rigorous data to inform transportation cont…
Conceptualizing and evaluating the role of a data platform as an entry-point for strengthening flood risk governance in Canada
Political science (25 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (19 works) · Business (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · Environmental planning (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Public Administration (13 works) · Environmental resource management (11 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (11 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (9 works)