Browsing Brage NMBU by Author "Berge, Erling"

Changing Patterns of Land Access, Inheritance and Emerging Female Village Headpersons in a Patriarchal Society among the Tumbuka in Northern Malawi

Munthali, Alister C.; Berge, Erling; Khaila, Stanley; Kambewa, Daimon; Wiig, Henrik (CLTS Report;1/24, Report, 2024-06)

The Tumbuka are normally described as patrilineal where inheritance of property including land, cattle and village headmanship is from father to son. There is evidence that initially the Tumbuka were matrilineal. In this ...

Defragmenting resource management on the southeast arm of Lake Malawi : case of fisheries

Ngochera, Maxon; Donda, Steve; Hara, Mafaniso; Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;2017:12, Working paper, 2017)

The Southeast Arm of Lake Malawi catchment has a wide range of natural resources that require prudent management for sustainability and maximisation of benefits. The current management practice is government sector based, ...

Eiendomsdannelse i bytransformasjon

Ramsjord, Eivind Hasseldokk (PhD Thesis;2014:11, Doctoral thesis, 2014)

Temaet for avhandlingen er eiendomsdannelse i bytransformasjon. Eiendomsdannelse går i denne sammenheng ut på å omforme eksisterende eiendomsforhold og etablere nye som gir sikkerhet for de nye "formelle" eier-, eiendoms- ...

Enclosure Norwegian style : the withering away of an institution

Berge, Erling; Haugset, Anne Sigrid (CLTS Working paper;2015:2, Working paper, 2015)

More than 200 years after the King sold one of the “King’s commons” of Follafoss (located inthe current Verran municipality) to urban timber merchants, local people in some ways still behave as if the area is a kind of ...

Grunnvassforvaltning: om Elinor Ostrom si tilnærming til forvaltning av grunnvatn

Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;8/18, Working paper, 2018)

The paper discusses the challenges present in the management of groundwater. The theoretical approach of Elinor Ostrom is presented and her study of the management of groundwater in Southern California in the 1960ies is ...

How can “tragedies of the commons” be resolved? Social dilemmas and legislation

Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;01/23, Working paper, 2023-01)

Humanity’s problem with climate change has been likened to a “tragedy of the commons”. If the atmosphere is seen as an open access dump for gasses like CO2 or methane, Garret Hardin’s conclusion from 1968: “Freedom in a ...

Jakt- og fiskerett i Follafoss allmenning : basert på innholdsanalyse av artikler i Trønder-Avisa 1965-2012

Haugset, Anne Sigrid; Berge, Erling (CLTS Report;2013:2, Report, 2013)

Dette arbeidsnotatet er en del av dokumentasjonen av datainnsamlingen i forskningsprosjektet Lokal sedvane i bruken av utmarka i Verran kommune. Dette er et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom Trøndelag Forskning og Utvikling og ...

Jordleie og bruksstruktur i tre norske kommuner

Holden, Stein Terje; Berge, Erling; Sjaastad, Espen O.; Strand, Geir H.; Steinsholt, Håvard (CLTS Working paper;2016:8, Working paper, 2016)

Omfanget av jordleie og bruksstruktur for tre norske kommuner (Norddal, Rissa og Ås) fra tre ulike landsdeler sammenlignes for årene 2004 og 2013 basert på data fra Statens Landbruksforvaltning (produksjonstilskudd) og ...

Jordleige og strukturendringar i norsk landbruk : datadokumentasjon. Norddal

Berge, Erling (CLTS Report;2016:2, Report, 2016)

Denne rapporten er ein del av forskingsprosjektet «Jordleie og strukturendringer i norsk landbruk». Prosjektet er eit forprosjekt der målet er å få til ei landsomfattande gransking av prosessane som flytter bruksrettar til ...

Land Tenure and Social Relations in Matrilineal and Uxorilocal Societies in Malawi

Kambewa, Daimon; Berge, Erling; Khaila, Stanley; Munthali, Alister; Wiig, Henrik (CLTS Report;1/23, Report, 2023-03)

This paper is about social relations in customary lands for the matrilineal uxorilocal culture of the Lomwe, Nyanja and Yao tribes in Southern Malawi. The study was carried out in the districts of Chiradzulu and Phalombe. ...

Learning cooperation from the commons

Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;2/19, Working paper, 2019)

The paper discusses the link between commons as they might have been used in prehistoric Norway and the rules concerning the exploitation of the commons as found in the oldest known legislation for regions of Norway, ...

Legislation on commons (Statsallmenning/Bygdeallmenning) in Norway

Wille, Julie (CLTS Report;2011:01, Report, 2011)

Lineage and land reforms in Malawi: Do matrilineal and patrilineal landholding systems represent a problem for land reforms in Malawi?

Berge, Erling; Kambewa, Daimon; Munthali, Alister; Wiig, Henrik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)

Based on government statistics and interviews with villagers across Malawi this article argues that customary matrilineal and patrilineal land tenure systems serve to weaken security of land tenure for some family members ...

Lineage and land reforms in Malawi: do matrilinear and patrilinear landholding systems represent a problem for land reforms in Malawi?

Berge, Erling; Kawbewa, Daimon; Munthali, Alister; Wiig, Henrik (CLTS Working paper;2013:9, Working paper, 2013)

This paper is about land tenure relations among the matrilineal and patrilineal cultures in Malawi. Data from the National Agricultural and Livestock Census are used to characterize marriage systems and settlement and ...