Dr. Arch. Pamela Durán Díaz

Profile information in Internet

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FWKpawoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-duran-92159b2a/
• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pamela_Duran

Research foci

• Transnational Land Governance
• Sustainable land and water management
• Anthropologies of wate

• Cultural landscapes and (in)tangible heritage

Background and experience

• Postdoc in Sustainable Management of Cultural Landscapes in China, Mali and Mexico
• PhD and MSc in Urban Planning by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain.
• BSc in Architecture, Specialisation in Urban Design by Tec de Monterrey, Mexico.
• 15 years of experience as a researcher for issues on sustainable management, land governance, anthropologies of water, urban planning and cultural landscapes.
• 6 years of experience in management of international cooperation and capacity building projects (Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America).
• Member of the talented Mexicans abroad network Red Global MX Chapter Bavaria, founder member of Ginna Kanda Research Group (Spain), InLab Research Group: Territory and Urban Artefact (Mexico and Germany), and lecturer in UNESCO Chair FLACAM: Latin American Forum for Environmental Science (Argentina). 

Educational projects (workshop organiser and facilitator):

• Research Development Workshop on “Responsible and Smart Land Management II” (2019) ADLAND activity, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
• Research Development Workshop on “Responsible and Smart Land Management I” (2018) ADLAND activity, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• Research Writing Workshop on “Land Management” (2018) ADLAND activity, Windhoek, Namibia.
• Research Writing Workshop on “Urban development” (2018) ADLAND activity, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
• Training on “Digital teaching and e-Learning tools” (2018) ADLAND activity in the Annual Group Meeting of East African Land Administration Network, Kampala, Uganda.
• Urban regeneration and design workshop TUM-UDLAP “REKMA: Resilience beyond emergency” (2018) 15,000€ grant by BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), Puebla, Mexico.
• Summer course “Advances in Responsible Land Management” (2017) Renmin University, Beijing, China.
• Urban regeneration and design workshop TUM-UDLAP-UPC-Deutsches Museum “The river and the memory” (2017) Munich, Germany.
• Urban regeneration and design workshop TUM-UDLAP “El cinturón verde como memoria del paisaje rural” (2017) 10,000€ grant by Dual Year MX-DE, Puebla, Mexico.

Theses Supervision

2020

• Ghimire, K. “Growing Artificial Glaciers for Agricultural Growth and to Tackle Climate Change: the Case of Mustang, Nepal”. MSc in Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering.
• González-Aparicio J.C. “The Metropolitan Region of Bogotá: Opportunity for Sustainable Land Use Management”. MSc in Land Management and Land Tenure, Department of Aerospace and Geodesy.
• Liu Y. “Investigation of ‘Peikao’ Pattern for Socio-Spatial Development in China: a Case Study of Town M.” MSc in Land Management and Land Tenure, Department of Aerospace and Geodesy.

2019

• Baldenhofer D. “An Emergency Response Strategy Based on the Good Governance Principles. The Case of Tochimilco, Mexico”. MSc in Land Management and Land Tenure, Faculty of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering.
• Gigl L. “A Water Management Strategy Based on Participatory Planning for the Kathmandu Valley to Improve the Conditions of Bagmati River”. MSc in Environmental Planning and Ecological Engineering, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan.
• Kreutzer M. “Developing a Monitoring Plan to Assess the Water Quality of Bagmati River in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal”. MSc in Environmental Planning and Ecological Engineering, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan.
• Sallam H. “Land Management Strategy to Improve the Socio-Spatial Quality of an Informal Settlement from its Causes: The Case of Wadi Al-Mashari in Damascus”. MSc in Land Management and Land Tenure, Faculty of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering.

2018

• Tusiime P. “The Influence of The Built Environment on Cultural Identity: The Case of Kibuga in Kampala, Uganda”. MSc in Land Management and Land Tenure, Faculty of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering.

2017

• López-Venegas G. “Assessment of Competing Land Uses in A Peri-Urban Landscape: The Case of Cholula, Mexico”. MSc in Sustainable Resources Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan.