The "Center for Land Tenure Studies 2024 Annual Report" is now published, June 2025
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES IN 2024
The Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS) published 38 peer-reviewed journal articles, 4 books, 7 working papers and three (3) reports. The published journals covered issues around education and disability, access to seeds, climate shocks and the climate dilemma, climate response behaviour, resource management, ecology, land acquisition and consolidation, valuation of land, housing markets, spatial urban planning, land laws, cadastral development, safe flood routes, grazing, deforestation, common pool resources, and political forest. Since the most published papers are first published as working papers, the research areas are similar. Additional topics in working papers include understanding behavioral response of resource poor households, students and farmers. The published reports included a pre-analysis plan for the research work in Malawi. CLTS members also participated in several conferences to disseminate the research work.
The CLTS working papers and reports are accessible through the CLTS webpage, the Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics (S-WoPEc), the library (Brage) of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), the Land Portal webpage (see: https://landportal.org/organization/centre-land-tenure-studies) and Econstor (see: https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/242695).
Statistics on visibility show that, over the months, abstract views ranged between 20 and 50 while downloads of the papers ranged from 5 to 20 papers across the months. This is on average lower that the statistics in 2023. The statistics on impact factor show that the current recursive impact factor for the CLTS page is 0.11 with an h-index of 8. The 10-year impact factor for the CLTS is 0.08 and the h-index is 4.
The faculties working on CLTS-related work also reported several activities. The School of Economics and Business was involved in several projects supported by the Research Council of Norway and NORAD (NORHED II). In LANDSAM, the Department of Property and Law is involved in projects focusing on (1) the Planning and Building Act between demand, land policy and sustainability, (2) collaboration for improved participation in spatial planning, and (3) didactics in spatial planning. Again, under LANDSAM, Noragric and Byreg departments collaborated on an NFR research application focusing on sustainable recreation around the Oslo Fjord. In MINA, the Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management worked on a collaborative project that represents a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosing and improving policy and management decisions for dry forestland and resources in the face of climate change. Two PhD students have contributed to the project, with one working since August 2021 and the other from August 2021 to May 2023. In addition, a postdoctoral researcher has been involved since March 2023, alongside a visiting researcher who joined in September 2023.