• 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, ...
    • 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 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 ...
    • Local ideas about rights of common in the context of a historical transformation from commons to private property 

      Berge, Erling; Haugset, Anne Sigrid (CLTS Working paper;2013:13, Working paper, 2013)
      More than 200 years after the King sold one of the “King’s commons” (Follafoss, located in the current Verran municipality) to urban timber merchants, local people in some ways still behave as if the area is a kind of ...
    • Lokal sedvane i bruken av utmarka i Verran kommune 

      Haugset, Anne Sigrid; Berge, Erling (CLTS Report;2013:1, Report, 2013)
      Dette notatet dokumenterer data innhentet gjennom en spørreundersøkelse våren 2012 i forbindelse prosjektet Gjeldende rett og lokal sedvane i bruken av utmarka i Verran kommune. I notatet gjøres det rede for datainnsamling, ...
    • MALAWIAN LAND TENURE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: Behaviour in trust games in 18 Malawian villages in 2007 

      Berge, Erling; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Wiig, Henrik; Bjørnstad, Sverre; Kambewa, Daimon; Munthali, Alister (CLTS Report;2020:3, Report, 2020-12)
      This report presents two papers developed in order to study behaviour in trust games in 18 Malawian villages in 2007. In 2007-2008 the Malawian land tenure and social capital project (financed by Norwegian Research Council), ...
    • Of urban commons 

      Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;2016:4, Working paper, 2016)
      Last summer visitors to the Oslo opera house were met with the following announcement: “Here comes the “Opera Commons” explaining: “Operaallmenningen”, the Opera Commons, “will be a multi-functional meeting place for ...
    • Understanding Norwegian commons 

      Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;10/18, Working paper, 2018)
      The paper reviews the development of the legal status of Norwegian commons from the first known legislation on commons. The development can be divided into 5 periods. The first period lasted until about 1300. In this ...