男，1978年生，湖北麻城人，博士，研究员，博士生导师，中国科学院大学岗位教授，中国科学院青年创新促进会首批会员，城市地理与城市发展研究室副主任。2001年获北京大学城市与环境学系学士学位，之后一直在中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所学习和工作，2004年获人文地理学硕士学位，2007年获人文地理学博士学位，2009年博士后出站。曾获全国百篇优秀博士学位论文提名奖（2009年度）、中国科学院优秀博士论文奖（2008年度）、中国科学院院长优秀奖（2007年度）、中国产学研合作创新成果奖一等奖（2017年度，排名第5）、国家哲学社会科学优秀成果奖（2015年度，排名第5）、环保部科学技术进步二等奖（2016年度，排名第3）等。
研究领域主要从事城市与区域发展及规划研究，侧重于城镇化与水资源利用的耦合关系调控研究以及城镇化的资源环境保障研究。提出了水资源约束力理论、基于城镇化和水资源双向流动视角的城乡协调理论，建立了城镇化与水资源利用的耦合关系模型，核算了水资源对城镇化的约束强度，构建了城镇化与水资源利用的情景模拟系统；近年来将资源环境要素由水资源为主向综合资源环境方向进行了延伸拓展，重点研究了资源环境约束下的中国城镇化与城市群可持续发展机理与模式。[1]
科研业绩主持国家自然科学基金面上项目与青年基金项目、国家自然科学基金重大项目子课题、国家社会科学基金重大项目课题、国家重点研发计划专题、中国科学院部署项目与课题、国家部委和地方政府委托课题33项。参与完成了国家自然科学基金重点项目，国家科技支撑计划重大项目，973项目，中国科学院知识创新工程重要方向性项目和重大项目，地方政府委托的城市规划、产业规划、区域规划项目等40项。在国内外主流期刊上发表学术论文70篇，其中第一或通讯作者论文54篇，第一或通讯作者的SCI/SSCI论文18篇。主编学术著作2部，副主编6部，参编13部。参与编写省部级以上政府发文实施的规划6份。[1]
主要学术论著1.?Bao Chao*, Xu Mutian.?Cause and effect of renewable energy consumption on urbanization and economic growth in China’s provinces and regions.?Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019, 231: 483-493.
2.?Bao Chao*, Fang Chuanglin. Geographical and environmental perspectives for the sustainable development of renewable energy in urbanizing China.?Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews,?2013,27:464-474.
3. Sun Siao,?Bao Chao*, Tang, Zhipeng*. Tele-connecting water consumption in Tibet: Patterns and socio-economic driving factors for virtual water trades.?Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019, 233: 1250-1258.
4. Sun Siao, Fu Guangtao,?Bao Chao*, Fang Chuanglin*. Identifying hydro-climatic and socioeconomic forces of water scarcity through structural decomposition analysis: A case study of Beijing city.?Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 687: 590–600.
5.?Bao Chao*, He Dongmei.?Scenario modeling of urbanization development and water scarcity based on system dynamics: A case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16(20): 3834-3852.
6.?Bao Chao*, Zou Jianjun. Analysis of spatiotemporal changes of the human-water relationship using water resources constraint intensity index in Northwest China.?Ecological Indicators, 2018, 84: 119-129.
7.?Bao Chao*, Fang Chuanglin. Water resources flows related to urbanization in China: challenges and perspectives for water management and urban development.?Water Resources Management, 2012, 26(2): 531-552.
8.?Bao Chao*, Fang Chuanglin. Water resources constraint force on urbanization in water deficient regions: A case study of the Hexi Corridor, arid area of NW China.?Ecological Economics, 2007, 62(3-4): 508-517.
9.?Fang Chuanglin,?Bao Chao*, Huang Jinchuan. Management implications to water resources constraint force on socio-economic system in rapid urbanization: A case study of the Hexi Corridor, NW China.?Water Resources Management, 2007, 21(9): 1613-1633.
10.?Bao Chao*, Chen Xiaojie. Spatial econometric analysis on influencing factors of water consumption efficiency in urbanizing China.?Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2017, 27(12):1450-1462.
11.?Bao Chao*, Zou Jianjun. Exploring the coupling and decoupling relationships between urbanization quality and water resources constraint intensity: Spatiotemporal analysis for Northwest China.?Sustainability, 2017, 9(11): 1960-1976.
12.?Bao Chao*, Chen Xiaojie. The driving effects of urbanization on economic growth and water use change in China: A provincial-level analysis in 1997-2011.?Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2015,25(5):530-544.
13.?Bao Chao*, He Dongmei. The causal relationship between urbanization, economic growth and?water use change in provincial China.?Sustainability, 2015, 7(12): 16076-16085.
14.?Bao Chao*, Fang Chuanglin. Integrated assessment model of water resources constraint intensity on urbanization in arid area.?Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2009, 19(3): 273-286.
15.?Bao Chao, Xu Mutian, Sun Siao*. China’s land uses in the multi-region input–output framework.?International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16(16), 2940-2956.
16.?Bao Chao*, Wang Hongjie.?Trans-provincial convergence of per capita energy consumption in urban China, 1990-2015.?Sustainability, 2019, 11(5): 1431-1445.
17.?Bao Chao*, Liu Ruowen. Electricity consumption changes across China’s provinces using a spatial shift-share decomposition model.?Sustainability, 2019, 11(9): 2494-2508.
18. Wang Zhenbo, Xu Guang*,?Bao Chao*, et al. Spatial and economic effects of the Bohai Strait Cross-Sea Channel on the transportation accessibility in China.?Applied Geography, 2017, 83: 86-99.
19.鲍超.中国城镇化与经济增长及用水变化的时空耦合关系.地理学报,2014,69(12):1799-1809.
20.鲍超,方创琳.干旱区水资源对城市化约束强度的时空变化分析.地理学报,2008,63(11):1140-1150.
21.鲍超,邹建军.基于人水关系的京津冀城市群水资源安全格局评价.生态学报, 2018,38(12):4180-4191.
22.鲍超,陈小杰,梁广林.基于空间计量模型的河南省用水效率影响因素分析.自然资源学报,2016,33(10):1300-1311.
23.鲍超,方创琳,柳文华.生态环境约束下的干旱区城乡用水联动模式.自然资源学报,2010,25(11):1949-1959.
24.鲍超,方创琳.干旱区水资源对城市化约束强度的情景预警分析.自然资源学报,2009,24(9):1509-1519.
25.鲍超,方创琳.河西走廊城市化与水资源利用关系的量化研究.自然资源学报,2006,21(2):301-310.
26.鲍超,方创琳.水资源约束力的内涵、研究意义与战略框架.自然资源学报,2006, 21(5):844-852.
27.鲍超,方创琳.我国矿业城市资源可持续开发利用的战略思路与模式.自然资源学报, 2006, 21(6):900-909.
28.鲍超,贺东梅.京津冀城市群水资源开发利用的时空特征与政策启示.地理科学进展,2017,36(1):58-67.
29.鲍超,等.城市群发展与水资源利用的耦合机理及系统模拟.北京:经济科学出版社,2017.
30.方创琳,鲍超,乔标,等.城市化过程与生态环境效应.北京:科学出版社,2008.[1]
