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Pricing and individual choice in urban water conservation
2 July 2025
Moderator: Prof. Djiby Thiam | Director: WPE – Water and Production Economics, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
Water Economics and Politics Seminar Series
/ Urban water management
Pricing and individual choice in urban water conservation
Speaker: Distinguished Prof. Emeritus Gary Libecap | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) School of Environmental Science & Management, United States
Time: 16:00 South African Standard Time (SAST) | GMT +2
About the speaker: Gary D. Libecap is Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Economics Department at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. He was Erskine Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2019 and Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, Cambridge University, Economics Faculty and Saint Catharine's College, 2010–11. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Montana and served in the US Air Force from 1969–1973. His research focuses on the role of property rights institutions in addressing the open access losses for natural resources such as fisheries and freshwater, as well as the role of water markets in encouraging efficient use and allocation. He also has examined the conditions for successful collective action to address open access losses. The Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) in 2021 recognised this research record with the Elinor Ostrom Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC). Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. More on garylibecap.com.