Dr. Brad Bass

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adaptations & Impacts Researcher
Environment Canada (at the University of Toronto) - Adaptations & Impacts Research Division

Dr. Brad Bass is a researcher with Environment Canada’s Adaptation and Impact Research Division, located in the Centre for Environment at the University of Toronto, where he manages the Division’s research program for the St. George campus.  The research program focuses on adapting to climate change, particularly in the use of energy.  The research ranges from ecological technologies, such as green roofs, to modelling the future energy supply scenarios at different scales to agent-based simulations of adaptation.  Dr. Bass is regularly called upon to advise on green roof installations both within and outside of government and on energy technology, and to run workshops for elementary and high school students on adaptation.  He is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis, and is the Chair of the North American Green Roof Research Committee.  Dr. Bass has supervised numerous high school, undergraduate and graduate students, teaches economic geography at the University of Toronto, and is a member of the City of Mississauga’s Environmental Advisory Committee.  Dr. Bass has also been involved with include the Canadian Climate Change Scenarios Network (CCCSN), the COBWEB project, and the Canadian Atmospheric Hazards Network (CAHN).

Dr. Bass spent a year working as the Research Team Manager in Ontario’s Growth Management Secretariat, where he developed an interest in the possible linkages between Smart Growth and adaptation to climate change. Climate change and Smart Growth both change the feasibility of different options for supplying energy at the local level, opening up opportunities for new energy sources while restricting others. These opportunities are being explored for Prince George with the Regional Energy and Analysis Model (REAM), which can be used to assess the integrated impact of various smart growth targets and of climate change on the objectives for future energy supply.  REAM provides an indication as to whether emission targets set as part of a Smart Growth strategy are feasible, given the other components of the strategy, of demographic change and of climate change.

Recent publications that discuss and address some of these limitations in the context of forest-based communities in the central region of British Columbia include:

Lin Q, Huang G, Bass B and Qin XS (2008) IFTEM: An Interval-Fuzzy Two-Stage Stochastic Optimization Model for Regional Energy Systems Planning under Uncertainty.  Energy Policy

Martens, R and Bass, B (2008) Roof-Envelope Ratio Impact on Green Roof Energy Performance. In Press Urban Ecosystems and available online at http://www.springerlink.com/content/100227/?k=green+roofs&sortorder=asc&v=condensed&o=10