Erling Berge
Biographic Data
| ID | 259522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erling Berge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erling |
| FAMILY NAME | Berge |
| SIGNATURE | BERGE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3191-1718 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Green Encounters
Since the colonial era of the East Indies, multiple ruling regimes have promoted a certain narrative to utilize the forests on Mount Halimun Salak for nature preservation and profit accumulation. Existing studies of the designation of Halimun Salak as a conservation area have shown that such an establishment led to conflicts over land and livelihoods with the surrounding communities and local farmers. Complementing these studies, my qualitative r…
On the commons of developed industrialized countries
The editorial discusses the status and prospects of the commons of developed industrialized countries, based on the literature. For the traditional commons, one key variable for long-term development prospects of the commons is found in the way ownership to the commons is structured. A second key variable is the way increasing knowledge, including scientific environmental knowledge, has affected our perception of what a resource is within a commo…
On enclosure Norwegian style
More than 200 years after the King sold one of the “King’s commons” to urban timber merchants, local people in some ways still behave as if the area is a kind of commons. The paper outlines the history of the transformation of the area from an 18th century King’s commons to a 21st century battleground for ideas about ancient access and use rights of community members facing rights claimed by a commercial forest owner within local consequences of …
On enclosure Norwegian style
More than 200 years after the King sold one of the "King's commons" to urban timber merchants, local people in some ways still behave as if the area is a kind of commons. The paper outlines the history of the transformation of the area from an 18th century King's commons to a 21st century battleground for ideas about ancient access and use rights of community members facing rights claimed by a commercial forest owner within local consequences of …
On the commons of developed industrialized countries
The editorial discusses the status and prospects of the commons of developed industrialized countries, based on the literature. For the traditional commons, one key variable for long-term development prospects of the commons is found in the way ownership to the commons is structured. A second key variable is the way increasing knowledge, including scientific environmental knowledge, has affected our perception of what a resource is within a commo…
Lineage and land reforms in Malawi
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 as well as obstructing the creation of gender-neutral inheritance of lands. Data from the National Census of Agriculture and Livestock 2007and the 2008 Population and Housing Census are used to characterize marriage systems and …
The 20th anniversary of Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons
Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons Since its appearance, the book has changed the agenda of commons research and practice. True to its title, it has sparked a search for ways to actually govern the commons -rather than simply declaring them anachronisms, for which there is no place in a world that looks to develop sustainably. Additionally, whereas since 1968 the commons debate was dominated by the ideas of one biologist, Governing the Commons…
Technology-dependent commons
Governing the Commons for two decades
In complex systems, the elements are interrelated in ways that ensure that one \nelement cannot be studied without accounting for the others. We take as a fact \nthat the world over time has become more and more complex. The story of \nElinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons is among other things a story with a \nprotagonist role for complexity. It is also a tale of the emergence and development of a complex of diverse but interrelated disciplines,…
The 20th anniversary of Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons
Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons (Ostrom 1990) celebrated its 20th \nanniversary in 2010. Since its appearance, the book has changed the agenda of \ncommons research and practice. True to its title, it has sparked a search for ways to \nactually govern the commons – rather than simply declaring them anachronisms, \nfor which there is no place in a world that looks to develop sustainably. Additionally, \nwhereas since 1968 the commons debate …
Technology-dependent commons
Things owned in common -or jointly -as the case may be, abound. They abound today as they did in earlier times, in urban as well as in rural settings, and in high tech artefacts like Wikipedia as well as in traditional symbols. Usually such commonly held goods do not create any noteworthy problems for those who share an interest in them. But in some cases they do represent an intrinsically difficult situation for stakeholders: their governance an…
Governing the Commons for two decades
Welcome to the International Journal of the Commons
The International Journal of the Commons is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal, dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.These resources may be part of the natural world (e.g. forests, climate systems, or the oceans) or they may be created (e.g. infrastructures such as irrigation systems, the internet or (scientific) knowledge, for…
Welcome to the International Journal of the Commons
It aims to be an interdisciplinary peerreviewed open-access journal dedicated to further our understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.Many will refer to such resources and their systems of usage as 'commons'.Thus a 'commons' may be a part of the natural world used by humans or it may be a social reality created by humans, such as the internet or an urban space
Whitefish Fisheries in Mountainous Southeastern Norway
Commercial utilization of inland fish resources can constitute an important addition to other economic activities in rural communities. Based on a case study of commercial whitefish fishery in Lake Femund, a mountain lake in southeastern Norway, this article outlines experience gained and indicates some of the general problems related to this type of economic activity. They concern aspects such as resource biology, product development and marketi…
On the Study of Households
It is argued that instead of trying to use the complex everyday concept of household, one should record the various characteristics which go into this concept. From a systems perspective nine ways of characterising households as analytical units are identified. The distinction between absolute, distributional and relational data is, together with the distinction between three levels of characterising the household, used to discuss the utility of …
Some Comments on C Hamnett's Reading of the Data on Sociotenurial Polarisation in South East England
In this paper the author reanalyses the data on the sociotenurial development in South East England in the period 1966–1981, as presented by Hamnett in 1987. If one takes into account the changing composition both of the work force and of the housing market, the data would seem to suggest that there has been no sociotenurial polarisation process going on between 1966 and 1981. The changes seem to be best described as a segregation process where t…
Lineage and land reforms in Malawi
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 as well as obstructing the creation of gender-neutral inheritance of lands. Data from the National Census of Agriculture and Livestock 2007and the 2008 Population and Housing Census are used to characterize marriage systems and …
On the commons of developed industrialized countries
The editorial discusses the status and prospects of the commons of developed industrialized countries, based on the literature. For the traditional commons, one key variable for long-term development prospects of the commons is found in the way ownership to the commons is structured. A second key variable is the way increasing knowledge, including scientific environmental knowledge, has affected our perception of what a resource is within a commo…
Governing the Commons for two decades
In complex systems, the elements are interrelated in ways that ensure that one \nelement cannot be studied without accounting for the others. We take as a fact \nthat the world over time has become more and more complex. The story of \nElinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons is among other things a story with a \nprotagonist role for complexity. It is also a tale of the emergence and development of a complex of diverse but interrelated disciplines,…
The 20th anniversary of Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons
Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons (Ostrom 1990) celebrated its 20th \nanniversary in 2010. Since its appearance, the book has changed the agenda of \ncommons research and practice. True to its title, it has sparked a search for ways to \nactually govern the commons – rather than simply declaring them anachronisms, \nfor which there is no place in a world that looks to develop sustainably. Additionally, \nwhereas since 1968 the commons debate …
On the Study of Households
It is argued that instead of trying to use the complex everyday concept of household, one should record the various characteristics which go into this concept. From a systems perspective nine ways of characterising households as analytical units are identified. The distinction between absolute, distributional and relational data is, together with the distinction between three levels of characterising the household, used to discuss the utility of …
Some Comments on C Hamnett's Reading of the Data on Sociotenurial Polarisation in South East England
In this paper the author reanalyses the data on the sociotenurial development in South East England in the period 1966–1981, as presented by Hamnett in 1987. If one takes into account the changing composition both of the work force and of the housing market, the data would seem to suggest that there has been no sociotenurial polarisation process going on between 1966 and 1981. The changes seem to be best described as a segregation process where t…
On the Study of Households
It is argued that instead of trying to use the complex everyday concept of household, one should record the various characteristics which go into this concept. From a systems perspective nine ways of characterising households as analytical units are identified. The distinction between absolute, distributional and relational data is, together with the distinction between three levels of characterising the household, used to discuss the utility of …
Whitefish Fisheries in Mountainous Southeastern Norway
Commercial utilization of inland fish resources can constitute an important addition to other economic activities in rural communities. Based on a case study of commercial whitefish fishery in Lake Femund, a mountain lake in southeastern Norway, this article outlines experience gained and indicates some of the general problems related to this type of economic activity. They concern aspects such as resource biology, product development and marketi…
Welcome to the International Journal of the Commons
The International Journal of the Commons is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal, dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.These resources may be part of the natural world (e.g. forests, climate systems, or the oceans) or they may be created (e.g. infrastructures such as irrigation systems, the internet or (scientific) knowledge, for…
Welcome to the International Journal of the Commons
It aims to be an interdisciplinary peerreviewed open-access journal dedicated to further our understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.Many will refer to such resources and their systems of usage as 'commons'.Thus a 'commons' may be a part of the natural world used by humans or it may be a social reality created by humans, such as the internet or an urban space
The 20th anniversary of Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons
Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons Since its appearance, the book has changed the agenda of commons research and practice. True to its title, it has sparked a search for ways to actually govern the commons -rather than simply declaring them anachronisms, for which there is no place in a world that looks to develop sustainably. Additionally, whereas since 1968 the commons debate was dominated by the ideas of one biologist, Governing the Commons…
Technology-dependent commons
Governing the Commons for two decades
In complex systems, the elements are interrelated in ways that ensure that one \nelement cannot be studied without accounting for the others. We take as a fact \nthat the world over time has become more and more complex. The story of \nElinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons is among other things a story with a \nprotagonist role for complexity. It is also a tale of the emergence and development of a complex of diverse but interrelated disciplines,…
The 20th anniversary of Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons
Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons (Ostrom 1990) celebrated its 20th \nanniversary in 2010. Since its appearance, the book has changed the agenda of \ncommons research and practice. True to its title, it has sparked a search for ways to \nactually govern the commons – rather than simply declaring them anachronisms, \nfor which there is no place in a world that looks to develop sustainably. Additionally, \nwhereas since 1968 the commons debate …
Technology-dependent commons
Things owned in common -or jointly -as the case may be, abound. They abound today as they did in earlier times, in urban as well as in rural settings, and in high tech artefacts like Wikipedia as well as in traditional symbols. Usually such commonly held goods do not create any noteworthy problems for those who share an interest in them. But in some cases they do represent an intrinsically difficult situation for stakeholders: their governance an…
Governing the Commons for two decades
Lineage and land reforms in Malawi
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 as well as obstructing the creation of gender-neutral inheritance of lands. Data from the National Census of Agriculture and Livestock 2007and the 2008 Population and Housing Census are used to characterize marriage systems and …
On the commons of developed industrialized countries
The editorial discusses the status and prospects of the commons of developed industrialized countries, based on the literature. For the traditional commons, one key variable for long-term development prospects of the commons is found in the way ownership to the commons is structured. A second key variable is the way increasing knowledge, including scientific environmental knowledge, has affected our perception of what a resource is within a commo…
On enclosure Norwegian style
More than 200 years after the King sold one of the “King’s commons” to urban timber merchants, local people in some ways still behave as if the area is a kind of commons. The paper outlines the history of the transformation of the area from an 18th century King’s commons to a 21st century battleground for ideas about ancient access and use rights of community members facing rights claimed by a commercial forest owner within local consequences of …
On enclosure Norwegian style
More than 200 years after the King sold one of the "King's commons" to urban timber merchants, local people in some ways still behave as if the area is a kind of commons. The paper outlines the history of the transformation of the area from an 18th century King's commons to a 21st century battleground for ideas about ancient access and use rights of community members facing rights claimed by a commercial forest owner within local consequences of …
On the commons of developed industrialized countries
The editorial discusses the status and prospects of the commons of developed industrialized countries, based on the literature. For the traditional commons, one key variable for long-term development prospects of the commons is found in the way ownership to the commons is structured. A second key variable is the way increasing knowledge, including scientific environmental knowledge, has affected our perception of what a resource is within a commo…
The Green Encounters
Since the colonial era of the East Indies, multiple ruling regimes have promoted a certain narrative to utilize the forests on Mount Halimun Salak for nature preservation and profit accumulation. Existing studies of the designation of Halimun Salak as a conservation area have shown that such an establishment led to conflicts over land and livelihoods with the surrounding communities and local farmers. Complementing these studies, my qualitative r…
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