Tim Duane in Southern Africa

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 one advanced law course for Utah every semester. 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, his lectures will cover how U.S. and international law affect big game trophy hunting, how local communities engage with wildlife conservation throughout Africa, 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