EIE202 History of Norwegian Property Rights and Tenure Systems

Topics for lectures and students' reports (in Norwegian):

1. Land property and land tenancy
2. Subdivisions of farms
3. From tenant peasants to freeholders
4. Smallholder system
5. Smallholder policy and farming of new land in the 1800s and 1900
6. The main outlines property registration systems development in Norway
7. Strip farming and commons
8. Land consolidation
9. Urban property history
10. Property history in Nordland, Troms and Finnmark counties
11. Open acess

Students are to be familiar with important lines of development in the Norwegian history of property right and tenure systems, in different parts of the country, and in rural and urban areas as a background for professional practice. They should understand and be able to use the most common types of documents related to property rights and transactions in their proper historical context. Generally the course gtives an introduction to Norwegian economic history fram app. 1600, and methods of history.

Land use is central in development of sustainability; causes to-, effects of- and solutions of emvironmental and social problems. Often land tenure structures must be changed to achieve positive developments. Understanding of historical backgrounds will often be important for such processes.