Natural Resources
Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC)
Submitted by Anonymous on May 28, 2007 - 11:18am.Name of Organization:
Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC)
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Purpose:
Harness the strengths of students, faculty and research programs across the energy and natural resources sector. Create a community with shared interests in energy and natural resources, encourage leaders to be active in the community, create an online place where people can access Berkeley’s energy and natural resources information, make Berkeley the most attractive place for students interested in “clean tech,” and identify student-led projects that reinforce “clean tech.”
BERC is a student-led organization whose mission is to connect and develop the <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu">UC Berkeley</a> energy and resource community. The group acts as a bridge between the many schools, programs, and labs at the University, including the <a href="http://www.law.berkeley.edu">Boalt Hall School of Law</a>, <a href="http://chem.berkeley.edu/">College of Chemistry</a>, <a href="http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/">College of Engineering</a>, <a href="http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu">College of Natural Resources</a>, <a href="http://erg.berkeley.edu">Energy & Resources Group</a>, <a href="http://gspp.berkeley.edu">Goldman School of Public Policy</a>, <a href="http://haas.berkeley.edu">Haas School of Business</a>, <a href="http://www.lbl.gov">Lawrence Berkeley National Lab</a>, <a href="http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu">UC Energy Institute</a>, and others. To foster productive applications of university research and technology, BERC also forges connections with the larger energy and cleantech cluster that is growing in the Bay Area and beyond.
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Duane, Tim
Submitted by cmjones on February 27, 2007 - 1:02pm.Name of Person:
Tim Duane
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Department:
City and Regional Planning, Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Land use and natural resources law, landscape-scale conservation strategies and the relationship between public land and resource management efforts and private land conservation in western North America, growth management and rural land use planning, methods for incorporating environmental factors into infrastructure systems planning, and improving the economic efficiency of environmental law and regulation.
Achievements:
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.
