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Duane teaches environmental planning and policy, infrastructure planning, environmental impacts of energy systems, land use planning, environmentally sustainable community development, and the impacts of urban development on fragile natural systems. He is particularly interested in how institutional structures can be modified to address competing social values. He is therefore studying law and legal institutions in greater detail, since they dominate decision-making in the modern administrative state. His primary institutional focus is domestic, but has also worked in or traveled in over thirty countries and has supervised graduate students in over a dozen other countries. He has published on a wide variety of topics from electricity regulation in California to community participation in ecosystems management.

In addition to being a professor of city planning, Elizabeth Deakin is Director of the University of California Transportation Center and a member of the affiliated faculty of Berkeley’s Master of Urban Design Program and the Energy and Resources Group. Her research and teaching are focused on transportation and land use planning and policy, institutions, and law, and environment and energy issues. Deakin has published widely on intelligent transportation systems, transportation pricing, and sustainable transportation fuels and technologies. Relevant publications include Sustainable Development and Sustainable Transportation: Strategies for Economic Prosperity, Environmental Quality, and Equity (IURD, 2003) and Metropolitan Profiles: Development Patterns, Socioeconomic Characteristics and Transit Use: 1960-1995 (IURD, 1997).