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  • Elinor Ostrom in Trondheim 2008
  • Erling Berge

    Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Landscape and Society. Department of Property and Law.
    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1433 Aas, Norway

  • e-mail to Erling.Berge@erlingberge.no


  • My old card
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Fields of interest:

  • Land Tenure and Property Rights
  • Resource Management
  • Economic Sociology
  • Research Methods
  • Papers

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  • Archive of publications by Erling Berge

  • Publications can also be found at
    Centre for Land Tenure Studies
    and
    International Journal of the Commons

    Research interests

  • Who ownes Norway?

  • Teaching


  • Advice on writing. Courses and lecture notes 1994-2011.
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  • "Two key questions are: how did humanity come into being? and what are its distinguishing characteristics compared with its more animalic forebears?" Page 144 in Elias, Norbert. 1991. The Symbol Theory. London: Sage.
  • "With language, genetic change ceases to be the main basis for change: history begins." Page 130 in Maynard Smith, John and David Harper. 2003. Animal Signals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.