Tim Duane in Portugal

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 now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona and has lectured on water, climate, and energy law and policy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and the Stanford School of Engineering.

Tim has traveled throughout northern Portugal and conducted research on conflicts between water resources development and conservation of the paleolithic art of the Val de Coa. On this trip, Tim will lecture on that specific conflict, the broader challenges of meeting Portugal’s water needs in the face of climate change, how climate change is affecting Portugal’s wine and port industries, and how Portugal is responding to wildfire threats.

• 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