Building resilience for a future of climate change

Political scientist Daniel Henstra speaks to AMO on how Ontario municipalities can prepare for climate impacts. By Jon Parsons University Relations - Climate change is such a huge issue that it can be difficult to even know where to start. It involves sophisticated science and mountains of data, as well as social, political and economic implications that intersect with various academic disciplines. But for Daniel Henstra, a professor in the Department of Political Science and the co-lead of Waterloo's Climate Risk Research Group, climate change is an immediate and practical matter. Henstra is set to give a keynote address at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference, an annual gathering of municipal leaders and administrators. Part of his research focuses on what he says are the front lines of climate change: the municipal and regional governments that are facing tough decisions today about how to prepare for worsening climate change tomorrow. "Climate change is happening and it's not going to stop," says Henstra.