Tim Duane in Southeast Asia

Tim Duane, '82, MS '83, PhD '89, is a senior fellow at the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at the University of Utah and professor emeritus of environmental studies at UC-Santa Cruz. He is also an attorney with more than four decades of professional experience in the fields of energy, climate, land use, natural resources, water, and environmental policy, planning and law. He began working in the renewable energy industry in 1979 and published his first reports on climate change in 1990. He is a leading expert on “greening the grid” and the regulatory permitting challenges of renewable energy development, as well as issues of public land and resource management throughout the western United States.

Tim now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona and teaches advanced law courses for Utah. He has travelled to over 50 countries and has led trips for Stanford Travel/Study to India, Southeast Asia, Iceland, Greenland, the Canadian Arctic and the American West. On this trip, Professor Duane’s lectures will cover how damming the Mekong River affects water and power throughout Southeast Asia, how China’s Belt and Road Initiative is affecting economic development in the region, and the impact of climate change on the area.

• Senior fellow, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, University of Utah, 2022–present

• Professor in residence, 2018–2022, and visiting professor, 2013–2018, University of San Diego School of Law

• Professor, environmental studies, UC-Santa Cruz, 2009–2018 

• Associate professor: environmental planning and policy, UC-Berkeley, 1991–2009

• Visiting professor: Seattle University School of Law, 2012; and Vermont Law School, 2008–2012 

• Author, Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West (UC Press, 2000) 

• BA ’82, human biology, MS ’83 and PhD ’89, civil engineering, Stanford University 

• JD ’06, environmental law, UC-Berkeley