Author Description
Gary D. Libecap is Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Corporate Environmental Management, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara. He also is a Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and the Sherm and Marge Telleen Research Fellow, Hoover Institution. His PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania. He previously taught economics and law at the University of Arizona. He has authored or co-authored five books; edits the series Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth; and has written more than 150 journal articles and book chapters on property rights, natural resources, and environmental issues and serves on various National Science Foundation Panels. Gary is the author of Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West’s First Great Water Transfer, Stanford University Press. His research focuses on the role of property rights and markets in the use of natural resources, including fresh water and fisheries. His most recent book, co-authored with Terry Anderson is “Environmental Markets: A Property Rights Approach” (Cambridge University Press, 2014).Also contributing to this Article: Students Jim Bond, Mary-Sophia Motlow, Lauren Steely and Dean Wang from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara
