• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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, ...
    • 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 ...