Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions (PDF)

Prof. dr. ir. Walter Timo de Vries, is Chair of Land Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2015. He is the Study Dean for Geodesy and Geoinformation and the Director of the Master and PhD programs in Land Management and Land Tenure. He has worked in numerous international projects in Asia, Africa and South America, dealing with land information and land reform, geospatial data infrastructures and professional training and education in land issues, cadaster and information management. His current research interests at TUM include smart and responsible land management, urban and rural development and capacity development for land policy. Recent publications include the CRC / Taylor and Francis book 'Advances in Responsible Land Administration', and articles like: 'Responsible Land Management - Concept and Application in a Territorial Rural Context', 'Human Geodesy - Shaping a New Science and Profession for the World of Tomorrow', and 'Economic Versus Social Values in Land and Property Management: Two Sides of the Same Coin?' amongst others.

Prof. John Bugri, is an Associate Professor of Land Economy at the Department of Land Economy, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Built Environment. He holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BSc (Hons) in Land Economy from KNUST. He is particularly interested in people and land relations and focuses his research on the implications of man-land relations for sustainable land use and development, the dynamics of changes in political ecology on gender and livelihood sustainability and the broader role of land governance and policy issues in poverty reduction in both agrarian and urban communities in developing countries. He has published widely in both local and international Journals and serves as a reviewer for several Journals.