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Overview

Gary D. Libecap is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, specifically centered on marine and fisheries research, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management.

Their work spans several subfields, including global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, economics and econometrics, soil science, and demography. These areas highlight an interdisciplinary approach to studying environmental systems and resource governance.

Gary D. Libecap has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Frontiers in Marine Science, Ecological Economics, Marine Resource Economics, and The Journal of Law and Economics. This reflects a diverse engagement with both environmental science and related economic and legal disciplines.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Libecap are:

  • Advancing ocean ecosystem conservation via property rights, rather than marine protected areas (MPAs), 2024, MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studies
  • Property Rights to Land and Agricultural Organization: An Argentina-United States Comparison, 2022, The Journal of Law and Economics
  • Cross-sectoral externalities related to natural resources and ecosystem services, 2021, Ecological Economics
  • Addressing Marine and Coastal Governance Conflicts at the Interface of Multiple Sectors and Jurisdictions, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Coasean Approaches to Address Overfishing: Bigeye Tuna Conservation in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, 2020, Marine Resource Economics

Frequent co-authors of Gary D. Libecap include Ronald N. Johnson, Manuel Bellanger, Cameron Speir, Robert Fonner, and Douglas W. Lipton. The collaborations with these researchers indicate a focus on interdisciplinary studies around environmental policy, economics, and resource management.

Key topics in Libecap's research encompass:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Conservation, biodiversity, and resource management
  • Land rights and reforms
  • Coastal and marine management
  • International maritime law issues
  • Culture, economy, and development studies
  • Historical economic and social studies

This scientist's body of research demonstrates an integration of environmental science with legal, economic, and policy frameworks to address complex governance challenges in natural resource management and marine ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Contracting for Property Rights

    Gary D. Libecap

  • The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier

    Lee Alston;Gary Libecap;Robert Schneider

  • Contracting Problems and Regulation: The Case of the Fishery

    Ronald N Johnson;Gary D Libecap

  • Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier

    Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • Land reform policies, the sources of violent conflict, and implications for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Lee J. Alston;Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • Contractual responses to the common pool: prorationing of crude oil production

    Gary Libecap;Steven Wiggins

  • Oil field unitization: contractual failure in the presence of imperfect information

    S.N. Wiggins;G.D. Libecap

  • The Influence of Private Contractual Failure on Regulation: The Case of Oil Field Unitization

    Gary D. Libecap;Steven N. Wiggins

  • Economic Variables and the Development of the Law: The Case of Western Mineral Rights

    Gary D. Libecap

  • Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s

    Zeynep K. Hansen;Gary D. Libecap

  • Distributional Issues in Contracting for Property Rights

    Gary D. Libecap

  • An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets: A Cross-Country Comparison

    R Quentin Grafton;Gary Libecap;Samuel McGlennon;Clay Landry

  • The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Property Institutions

    Gary D. Libecap;Dean Lueck

  • The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy

    Claudia Goldin;Gary Libecap

  • Property rights in economic history: Implications for research

    Gary D. Libecap

  • The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education: An Evaluation of the Berger Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Arizona, 1985-1999

    Alberta Charney;Gary D. Libecap

  • The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier

    Lee J. Alston;Lee J. Alston;Robert Schneider;Gary D. Libecap

  • 2006 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS WATER MARKETS IN THE WEST: PRICES, TRADING, AND CONTRACTUAL FORMS

    Jedidiah Brewer;Robert Glennon;Alan Ker;Gary Libecap

  • The Federal civil service system and the problem of bureaucracy

    Ronald N Johnson;Gary D Libecap

  • A model of rural conflict: violence and land reform policy in Brazil

    Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • Titles, conflict, and land use

    Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • Institutional Path Dependence in Climate Adaptation: Coman's

    Gary D. Libecap

  • The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. By Hernando de Soto. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. 276. $27.50, cloth; $14.00, paper.

    Gary D. Libecap

  • Economic analysis of property rights

    Gary D. Libecap

  • Introduction to "The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy"

    Claudia Goldin;Gary D Libecap

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee J. Alston
Lee J. Alston Indiana University
R. Quentin Grafton
R. Quentin Grafton Australian National University
Bernardo Mueller
Bernardo Mueller University of Brasília
Claudia Goldin
Claudia Goldin Harvard University
Richard H. Steckel
Richard H. Steckel The Ohio State University
Olivier Thébaud
Olivier Thébaud French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Andrew J. Plantinga
Andrew J. Plantinga University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert J. Schneider
Robert J. Schneider New York University
Howard Kunreuther
Howard Kunreuther University of Pennsylvania
Matthew E. Kahn
Matthew E. Kahn University of Southern California

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