Scott Baum

Professor Scott Baum is the Deputy Director of Research of CEPH.  He is also research member of Cities Research Institute of the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith Science and an associate investigator of HEAL.  He has been co-nurturing CEPH researchers from many countries in the area of climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation policy development. His methodology, planning tools and policy outcomes with the Gold Coast government was very important at the time when climate scientists were just beginning to measure impacts. He has a rich background knowledge in socio-economic analysis, geography and urban sociology, and especially his use of Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing to identify hot spots in cities for strategic adaptation planning to reduce risk from heat waves and flood. He has won many ARC grants and produced numerous publications. His multidisciplinary team has  pioneered genuine and productive participatory scenario planning with Stakeholders to produce the Gold Coast climate change adaptation and risk management plan to reduce risk from projected increased of identified disasters/extreme events.