EIE202 History of Norwegian property rights and tenure systems

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

1. Introduction - property rights and tenure systems
2. General historical framework
3. Land property and land tenancy in the middle ages and later
4. Subdivisions of farms
5. From tenant peasants to freeholders
6. Smallholder system
7. Smallholder policy and farming of new land in the 1800s and 1900
8. The main outlines property registration systems development in Norway
9. Strip farming and commons
10. Land consolidation
11. Urban property history
12. Property history in Nordland, Troms and Finnmark counties
13. Open acess
14. Expropriation and public facilities

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.

Buk av land har en sentral rolle i utviklingen av et bærekraftig samfunn; både når det gjelder årsaker til-, hindring av- virkninger av- og tilpasninger til miljømessige problem. Ofte vil eksisterende eiendoms- og rettighetsforhold måtte endres for en forbedring. Studenten vil gis en historisk bakgrunn for å delta profesjonelt i slike endringsprosesser, og også en bakgrunn for kritisk å kunne vurdere de tilnærminger til problematikken som eksisterer innenfor politikk og akademia i nåtid.