CURRICULUM VITAE

Professor dr. Per Kåre Sky

Cand. Agric, Ph.D.

Hegrenesveien 6a, N-5042 Bergen, Norway

Born: May 29, 1962

Nationality: Norwegian

E-mail: per.sky@usa.net or per.kare.sky@domstol.no

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Land Consolidation Appeal Judge - Gulating Land Consolidation Court of Appeal (2003 - present)

• Professor in Land Consolidation - Bergen University College (2006 - 2008)

• Head of the Land Consolidation Court of Nord- and Midhordland (2002 - 2003)

• Land Consolidation Judge - The Land Consolidation Court of Nord- and Midhordland (1995 - 2003)

• Regional director of Land Consolidation Services - County of Hordaland (1995 - 2001)

• Professor in Land Consolidation -  Department of Land use and Landscape Planning - Agricultural University of Norway (1999 - 2009)

• Associate Researcher / Associate Professor - Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning - Agricultural University of Norway (1994 - 1999)

• Senior Engineer / Head of section for Land Information System and Land Use Planning - Norwegian Defense Construction Service, Property Division (1992 - 1995)

• Research fellow / Ph.D.-student - Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning - Agricultural University of Norway (1989 - 1992)

EDUCATION / DEGREES:

• Masters degree - Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, Agricultural University of Norway. Academic studies in Surveying, Mapping, Cadastre and Land Consolidation (1984 - 1989)

• Ph.D. - Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, Agricultural University of Norway in Land Consolidation (1989 - 1995)

• Postgraduate studies - Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark, studies of Land Information Systems (1989 - 1990)

• Postgraduate studies - Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Ph.D. course in Research Methods (1989)

• Postgraduate studies - Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Postgraduate course in Qualitative Research Methods (1989)

• Postgraduate studies - Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Agricultural University of Norway, Ph.D. course in Theory of Science, Philosophy and Ethics (1990)

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• Advisor for students writing master thesis and Ph.D.-thesis at Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, Agricultural University of Norway.

• Lectures in negotiation and mediation in land consolidation, graduate level, Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, Agricultural University of Norway (1999 -)

• Lectures in property structure and layout of farmland plots, graduate level, Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, Agricultural University of Norway (1996 -)

• Lectures in the use of GIS in land consolidation, undergraduate and graduate level, Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, Agricultural University of Norway. (1988 - 1997)

• Lectures in implementation of GIS, undergraduate level, Department of Mapping Sciences, Agricultural University of Norway. (1992 - 1997)

SELECTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

• Research on the use of GIS in land readjustment process (masters thesis) (1989)

• Research on the use of GIS-based analytical tools, developed to assist economic analyses of different physical layout of farmland plots. (Ph.D.-thesis) (1990 - )

• Land consolidation on Cyprus (1995 -)

• Mediation in the land consolidation courts in Norway (1996 - 2010)

• Land consolidation in Galicia, Spain (2000 - 2002)

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Paper at The Boundary, Council of European Geodetic Surveyors, Bergen 29.-30. april 2009. Mediation in Bounadary Disputes.

• Paper presented at the 1st European surveyors congress and 39 ème congrès de l'Ordre des gèomètres-experts, francais, Strasbourg, 18. September 2008. Mediation in land disputes in Norway (also translated into french).

• Film accepted for presentation at XXIII FIG congress in Munich TS50.5 The Land Consolidation Court of Norway - A Court for Landed Property and Land Rights. October 11, 2006. Together with Øyvind Ravna.

• Film accepted for presentation at FIG Working Week and 8th International Conference of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure in Cairo, Egypt, 16-21 April 2005. Land consolidation and landscape changes in Galicia [Research and interview]. Together with Øyvind Ravna

• Leader of an excursion for employees from the land consolidation courts of Southern Norway to Galicia (24-28 May 2004).

• Visiting Researcher at University of East London, School of Surveying (June - July, 2002). 

• Paper at the International Conference on "Land Fragmentation and Land Consolidation in CEEC". Technische Universität München. Land Consolidation Organized in a Special Court - Experiences from Norway (26th February 2002).

• Paper at the Fourteenth Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management. Cergy, France (together with Solfrid Mykland Falkgård and Jørn Rognes). Mediating Land Disputes: Experiences from the Norwegian Land Consolidation Courts (2001).

• Visiting Scholar at University of Santiago de Compostela - Lugo, Spain (April - May, 2001).

• Guestlectures at ph.D-course Desarrallo y Ordenación Territorial del espacio rural en Galica, University of Santiago de Compostela - Lugo, Spain (2001 and 2004).

• Paper at the Second International Conference on Land Management. Danbury, Anglia Polytechnic University. Mediation in Boundary Disputes and Land Consolidation (2001).

• Paper at the Twelfth Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management. San Sebastián-Donostia, Spain (together with prof. Jørn Rognes) (1999).

• Honorary Fellow at Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Law School, (January-May, 1998).

• Presentation of paper "Mediation in the Land Consolidation Courts in Norway"- Land Tenure Center Seminar Series, Madison, University of Wisconsin (1998)

• Postgraduate studies in land information systems at Aalborg University in Denmark (1990)

• Delegate in Northwestern Europe Arc/Info Military Users Group representing Norwegian Defense Construction Service (1995)

• Paper and poster presentations at the International Congress of Surveyors (FIG) in Finland (1990), Melbourne (1994), Hungary (1996), Washington D.C. (2002) and Marrakech (2003)

• Paper presentation at the International Conference on Land Management - University of East London School of Surveying (1997)

• Several study tours to The Land Consolidation Department in Cyprus (1995 - 2008)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Member of the editorial board and scientific committee Spanish Journal of Rural Developmen (2009 -)
• Referee - European Planning Studies (2003 and 2004)
• Member of editorial panel of Transactions in Land Management, Ashgate Publishing (2001 -)
• Member of the editorial board - Norwegian Journal of Mapping and Planning Sciences (2003 -)
• Editor in Chief -  Norwegian Journal of Mapping and Planning Sciences (2000 - 2002)
• Chairman of a working group appointed by the Ministry of Agriculture. Development of Intranet in the Land Consolidation Services (3/99-5/99)
• Chairman of a working group apointed by the Ministry of Agriculture. Evaluating services from Norwegian Institute for Land Inventory to the Land Consolidation Services (1998 )
• Chairman of the Land Consolidation Services information technology group (1997 - 2000)
• Deputy chairman of the advisory board - Norwegian Institute of Land Inventory (1997 - )
• Articles Editor / Consultant (geographical information systems) - Norwegian Journal of Mapping and Planning Sciences (1990 - 1998)
• Referee - Norwegian Journal of Mapping and Planning Sciences (1997- )
• Referee - Forest & Landscape Research, Danish Forest and Landscape Research Institute and The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (1998)
• Member of a committee evaluating different development ideas for Odderøya Fortress. Norwegian Defense Construction Services (1996)
• Expert witness in a Appeal Court case. Land consolidation and costs of transportation (1996)
• Chairman of a working group appointed by the Ministry of Agriculture. Evaluation the mapping services in the Land Consolidation Services (1991-1993)
• External examinator at Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, Agricultural University of Norway. Masters theses in Land use planning (1997)
• External examinator at Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, Agricultural University of Norway. Up-grading courses in Land readjustments and land valuation (1996) and Negotiation (1997)
• External examinator at College of Gjøvik in Geographical information systems (1993-1997)

SOME PUBLICATIONS (written in English):

[1] Sky, P.K., 1990. Geographical Information Systems - an element in the education of land use planners in Norway. Paper, XIX International Congress of Surveyors, FIG, Vol.10, p. 5-13.

[2] Sky, P.K., 1994. Complex Implementation of a Geographical Information System in the Norwegian Defence Construction Service. Paper, XX International Congress of Surveyors, FIG, Vol.3, p. 533- 542.

[3] Sky, P.K., 1996. Layout of Farmland Plots. Surveying Science in Finland, Vol. 14, no. 1-2, p. 56-68, The Finnish Society og Surveying Science.

[4] Rognes, J.K. and Sky, P.K. (1998). Mediation in the Norwegian Land Consolidation Courts. Working Paper no. 14. North America Series, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. [Også publisert på elektronisk form i Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota]

[5] Goodale, M.R. and Sky, P.K. (1998). Owners’ Relationships to Property and Land Consolidation: A social Approach. Kart og Plan, Vol. 58, s. 264-268.

[6] Rognes, J.K. and Sky, P.K. (1999). Intervention Methods in Land Issues Disputes: Mediation in the Norwegian Land Consolidation Courts. Paper accepted to the Twelfth Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management. San Sebastián-Donostia, Spain, 23 p.

[7] Goodale, M.R. and Sky, P.K. (1999).Owners’ Relationships to Property and Land Consolidation: A social Approach. Land Tenure Center Reprint Series, No. 147. University of Wisconsin-Madison, ISSN 0084-0807.

[8] Goodale, M.R.G. and Sky, P.K. (2000). A Comparative Study of Land Tenure, Property Boundaries and Dispute Resolution: Examples from Boliva and Norway. Working Paper no. 34. North America Series, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 32 s. [Også publisert på elektronisk form i Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota]

[9] Rognes, J.K. and Sky, P.K. (2001). Mediation in Land Consolidation and in Boundary Disputes. Paper, Second International Conference on Land Management, Anglia Polytechnic University, London, 18 p.

[10] Goodale, M.R.G. and Sky, P.K. (2001). A Comparative Study of Land Tenure, Property Boundaries and Dispute Resolution: Case Studies from Boliva and Norway. Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 17/2, pp. 49-67.

[11] Falkgård, S.M., Rognes, J.K. and Sky, P.K. (2001). Mediating Land Disputes: Experiences from the Norwegian Land Consolidation Courts. Paper accepted to the Fourteenth Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management, Paris.

[12] Falkgård, S.M., Rognes, J.K. and Sky, P.K. (2001). Mediating Land Disputes: Experiences from the Norwegian Land Consolidation Courts.  Kart og Plan, Vol. 61, s. 184-194.

[13] Sky, P.K. (2002). Layout of Farmland Plots. In: Dixon-Gough, R.W. and Mansberger, R. (2002). Transactions in International Land Management, Vol. 3. Ashgate Publishing Ltd, pp. 83-93.

[14] Sky, P.K. (2002). Land Consolidation Organized in a Special Court - Experiences from Norway. Paper at the International Conference on "Land Fragmentation and Land Consolidation in CEEC". Technische Universität München, 9 p.

[15] Falkgård, S.M. and Sky, P.K. (2002). Mediation as a Component in Land Consolidation. FIG XXII International Congress, TS7.4, Washington D.C. USA, 10 p.

[16] Rognes, J.K. and Sky, P.K. (2002). Intervention in land disputes. Land Tenure Center Newsletter, Spring 2002, Number 83, p. 9-10, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US ISSN 0276-0282

[17] Rognes, J.K. and Sky, P.K. (2003). Intervention Methods in Land Disputes. European Planning Studies, Vol. 11, No. 8, pp. 965-978, Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Frances LTD.

[18] Sky, P.K. (2003). Land Tenure Disputes; Suitable for mediation? 2nd FIG Regional Conference - Urban-Rural Interrelationship for Sustainable Environment, TS10.2, Marrakech, Marocco also published in Kart and Plan, Vol. 63(4), pp. 242-246.

[19] Rognes. J.K. and Sky, P.K. (2004). Mediation in land consolidation and in boundary disputes. In: Deakin, M., Mansberger, R. and Dixon-Gough, R.W.
Methodologies, Models and Instruments for Rural and Urban Development. Ashgate, s. 59-74.

[20] Ravna, Ø. and Sky, P.K. (2005). Land consolidation and landscape changes in Galicia. Film, accepted to FIG Working Week and 8th International Conference of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure in Cairo, TS29.4, Egypt, 16-21 April 2005 [Research and interview].

[21] Ravna, Ø. and Sky, P.K. (2006). The land consolidation court of Norway. A court for landed property and land rights. Film, 34 min, Mini-DV, Samodna Film.

[22] Sky, P.K. (2008). Court-based mediation in the Land Consolidation Court - from conflict to resolution.  Film, DVD, 25 min. Høgskolen i Bergen, Mediesenteret.

[23] Sky, P.K. (2008). A comment on changes in the Norwegian Land Consolidation Act. Rapport nr. 1/2008, serie B. Institutt for landskapsplanlegging, UMB, ISBN 825760928.

[24] Rognes, J.K. and Sky, P.K. (2008). Legal mediation in land disputes in Norway. Kart og Plan, Vol. 68(4), s. 226-232.

[25] Sky, P.K. (2009). Land consolidation can have a positive impact on the cultural landscape - an example from Cyprus. Kart og Plan, Vol. 69(3), s. 147-151.

Total list of publications (both Norwegian and English) see http://www.lirype.com/mediation/bpubli.html

Awards

Outstanding applied paper award presented to Jørn Rognes / Per Kåre Sky for Intervention Methods in Land Issues Disputes: Mediation in the Norwegian Land Consolidation Courts. 12th annual Conference International Association for Conflict Management, San Sebastian-Donostia, Spain 1999.

This page was edited: 24. april 2010