About our Director

Jeff Loux, Ph.D., is the director of the Land Use and Natural Resources Program at UC Davis Extension and the Center for Water and Land Use. He directs a professional education program that teaches 140 classes, conferences and training sessions to nearly 4,500 participants annually in the fields of land use planning and law, water resources policy, facilitation and mediation, natural resource management and water quality. Loux’s program conducts all of the training and courses for the State Water Resources Control Board and the Regional Boards, as well as courses for DWR. Loux has worked in the public and private sectors on land use planning, resource management and water policy matters for more than twenty years. He has co-authored a book with Karen Johnson linking land use and water resources entitled, Water and Land Use: Planning Wisely for the Future of California (Solano Press, 2004), and is completing another book on land conservation. He received his doctorate from UC Berkeley in environmental planning, specializing in groundwater policy in California. He has taught planning and resource management at the graduate and undergraduate levels at UC Davis, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. Prior to working for the University system, Loux served as the community development director of the City of Davis for six years, assistant director of planning for Santa Cruz County for two years and as a planning, design and resource management consultant for two major consulting firms for eleven years.