Tim Duane in India

Tim Duane, '82, MS '83, PhD '89, is 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. Tim has led two trips for Stanford to India and worked with graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in India beginning in the early 1990s. Tim also worked in Pakistan in 1989.

Tim now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, and has lectured in courses at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He has traveled to over 50 countries and has led trips for Stanford Travel/Study to India, Southeast Asia, Iceland, Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, the American West, and Southern Africa. On this trip, Tim will discuss the impact of climate change on India, the challenge of managing India’s air pollution, how different empires have managed water and property in India, and recent developments in Indian law affecting environmental issues.

• Senior fellow, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, University of Utah, 2022–2024

• 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