Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ir. Walter de Vries

Profile Information im Internet

• Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=fnzq-I8AAAAJ&hl=e
• Linkedin: http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/walter-t-de-vries/1/866/486/ 
• Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Walter_De_Vries2

Zuständigkeiten

• Professur für Bodenordnung und Landentwicklung an der TUM
• Direktor des Center of Land, Water and Environmental Risk Management
• Studiendekan Geodäsie - https://www.lrg.tum.de/flr/organisation/personen/studiendekanat/
• Mitglied des Fakultätsrats LRG
• Programmdirektor des englischsprachigen Masterstudiengangs "Land Management and Geospatial Science"
• TUM.Africa Academic Lead
• Director Doctoral Program TUM SEED Center - https://www.seed.tum.de/home/core-team.html
• Scientific Board TUM SEED Center - https://www.seed.tum.de/home/scientific-board.html
• Speaker of the Section Land and Real Estate Management of the German Geodetic Commission (DGK) - https://dgk.badw.de/struktur/abteilung-land-und-immobilienmanagement/mitglieder-und-gaeste.html

Modulkoordinator

• BGU40039  - Bodenordnung und Landentwicklung (in German) – Bachelor GuG
• BV000119  - Bodenrecht und Bodenordnung (Land tenure and land readjustment) (in English) – BSc UI, MSc GuG
• BGU40043 – Land administration (GuG)
• BV400024 – Land administration (LMLT)
• BV400011  - Land Management International (in English) – elective module
• BGU40033  - Land management für Geographen – part of BTS
• BV400022  - Land management: theory and practice  - LMLT module
• BV400021  - Instruments of land mobilisation (in English) – elective module
• BV400016  - Scientific paper writing (in English) – part of TS – also elective module
• BGU40029 – Project management and preparation Master thesis
• Land administration (In English)
• BGU40046  - Principles and applications of Land Management (in English) – part of UI program
• Coordinator Specialisation –Water-Food-Energy NEXUS (in English)

Weiterbildungsprojekte - Educational Projects

• MOOC – Introduction to land management (3 editions – 2017,2018,2019)
• Refresher course Responsible and smart land management – Semarang, Indonesia – 2016
• Refresher course Responsible and smart land management – Kumasi, Ghana - 2017
• Summer course responsible land management  - Beijing, China – 2017
• Doctoral workshops  - DGK (at TUM), IDS3Geo (In Croatia), Dodoma (Zanzania)

 

Supervision Doktorarbeiten

Laufende Promotionen:

ANSAR, Zulqadri – Smart land use control in Indonesia

ANTONIO, Danilo - Reforming the Philippines’ land administration system: Understanding its institutional and political dimensions towards the development of a change management strategy

CHATURVEDI, Vineet - Simulation modeling using Machine-based learning algorithm for land use planning for cities under conflict

DACHAGA, Walter – working title: "Exploring the nexus between land tenure security and health equity for urban land policy reform in Ghana"

GAO, Wenwen - What is the best settlement pattern of Increasing Versus Decreasing Balance land-use policy?

DARGIE, Solomon (Bahir Dar University) - Evaluation of urban cadastral system in Ethiopia

MORALES, Florentino Jr. – working title: "Development of a GIS-based decision support system for a climate change and natural hazards sensitive land use plan"

LAMHAMEDI, Bouchra El Houda - Land management and sustainable energy

NYADIMO, Eric - A critical evaluation of the land adjudication system in Kenya and a strategy for its modernization

MORALES, Florentino Jr. - Development of a GIS-based decision support system for a climate change and natural hazards sensitive land use plan

WUBIE, Abebe Mengaw (Bahir Dar University) – working title - Peri-Urban Land Use Management and Decision Support Framework: Evidence from Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

YING, Lu – working title: "Land policy and rural development in the context of rapid urbanization in China"

 

Abgeschlossene Promotionen seit 01.07.2017:

NTIHINYURWA, Pierre Damien - 2024 - “Towards Sustainable Farmland Fragmentation Management: A comprehensive Analysis and Modelling of Scenarios in Rwanda”

AMEYAW, Prince Donkor - 2024 - “Blockchain Technology for a Transparent Land Administration System: Feasibility Assessment for Adoption in Ghana's Land Sector”

HÖLZEL, Marco - 2024 - "Chancen für ländliche Regionen, verlassene Dorfkerne und eine Umverteilung von Arbeit im Raum"

ZHOU, Lin - 2024 - "Beyond the traditional: Voluntary collective action initiatives in China's rural land development"

AGBOEZE, Anthony Ikechukwu - 2023 - "From affordable housing to slum: Evaluation of causes, effects and solutions in the city of Enugu, Nigeria"

BYAMBAA, Bayarmaa - 2022 - "Modelling spatiotemporal dynamics of nomadic-pastoral land use for environmental impact assessment"

LEE, Cheonjae - 2021 - "A Divided Nation: Land Tenure, Governance and the Korean (Re-) Unification"

EBELE, Maduekwe – 2020 -  "Examining the economic impact of human recognition for women farmers in Malawi"

UWAYEZU, Ernest – 2020 - "Spatial Justice: Analysing its applicability in promoting land tenure security in Kigali City, Rwanda"

ANABTAWI, Sanaa 2018 - "Spatial planning selected tools and strategies for controlling urban sprawl and providing alternative development"

 

Supervision Masterarbeiten

Als erster aktiver Betreuer:

• Marc Schrey – 2020 - emphasis on evaluating  smart energy requirements when constructing new cities or improving existing cities – Master UI
• Mariana Georgiadou – 2020 – emphasis on evaluating aspects of green cities and the requirements to create a green capital city – Master UI
• Tom Hackbarth – 2020 – evaluating implications on land rights when relocating capital cities – a comparative study  - Master UI 
• Qutiaba Harb – 2020 - The role of Institutional Frameworks of Land Governance in  the Implementation of The Multinational ‘Great Green Wall of the Sahel and the Sahara’ Initiative – case studies Ethiopia and Senegal – Master UI
• Nicole Glass- 2020 - Evaluating the relation between land tenure and illegal wildlife trade – Master UI
• Rena Seyidova – 2020 - Integration of geospatial analysis in least-cost design of Energy-Water-Food systems: Case study of rural Northern Ghana – Master UI
• Rositha Lauterbach – 2020 - Fit-for-purpose land registration approaches under the flexible Land Tenure System (FLTS) and within Namibia’s framework – Master GuG
• Joseph Nwankwo – 2020 - Redesign of a Tenure Responsive EIA of Road and Bridge Construction- Master UI
• Muhammad Abdullah – 2020 -  Assessing the Performance of Land Administration System in Punjab after Land Records Computerization – Master LMLT
• Diyar Nasruldeen – 2020 - Improving land administration in Iraq through Geo-portal web pages - an approach based on evaluation of four case studies (Lithuania, Bavaria, Demark, Palestine) – Master LML
• Julia Gottfriendsen – 2019 - Temporal forecasting of ambient air pollution using deep learning in Hong Kong – Master UI
• Yasser Saleh – 2019 -  International Analyses for Public Ownership Restrictions POR in Egypt as a Case Study – Master UI
• Marius Werani – 2019 - Life Cycle Assessment and full cost accounting of agricultural products within decentralized Energy-Water-Food systems in Sub-Saharan Africa – case study St. Rupert Mayer – Master UI
• Harisharan Nepal – 2018 - Transition towards a digital cadastral system in a post-earthquake context in Nepal: case study of Banepa municipality – LMLT
• Miriam Beyers – 2018 - Effects of Different Deadwood Supply Strategies on Carbon Storage and Financial Returns on the Example of the Foundation Forest of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University - UI
• Thi Truc Linh – 2018 - German large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in foreign countries: Quantification of environmental and socio-economic impacts on Germany -  Life Science Economics and Policy student
• Eleanor Chapman – 2017 - The role of narratives in enabling and constraining local government housing policy – Master LMLT
• Leul Welay – 2017 - Designing an innovative Fit-for-Purpose Rural Land Cadastere system in Highland Areas of Ethiopia: The Case of Tigray Regional State – Master LMLT
• Maurice Migadde – 2017 - Assessing the capacity of land administration in relation to the national land information system in Uganda – Master LMLT
• Kathrin Struller – 2016 - Anpassungsfähigkeit des ländlichen Tourismus am Fallbeispiel Gunzesrieder Tal – Master UPIÖ

Mitgliedschaften

• Member of Editorial Board of Journals:
  o   Land Use Policy  - https://www.journals.elsevier.com/land-use-policy/editorial-board
  o   Geodetski Vestnik - http://www.geodetski-vestnik.com/en/editorship 
  o   Geomatics, Landmanagement and landscape  - https://gll.urk.edu.pl/index/site/6023
  o   Geoplanning: Journal of geomatics and planning
• Member of External Review and Assess Committees of:
  o   DFG
  o  Alexander von Humboldt
  o   Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
  o   ANR - National Research Agency
  o   National Research Foundation - South Africa
  o   Slovenia Research Agency
  o   Estonian Research Agency