Volume 4, Issue 3 - Lehrstuhl für Bodenordnung und Landentwicklung

CENTRE OF LAND, WATER
AND ENVIRONMENTAL
R I S K M A N A G E M E N T
AT THE TECHNISCHE
UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
N E W S L E T T E R :
L A N D M A N A G E M E N T
A N D L A N D T E N U R E
OCTOBER 2009, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3
OPENING CEREMONY 2009 OF THE MASTER'S
PROGRAMME
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
THE NEW MASTER
STUDENTS
UPM UNIVERSITY
AT TUM
TUM OFFICIAL
PARTNER OF GLTN
SCHOOL OF VIL-
LAGE AND LAND
DEVELOPMENT
IN MEMORIAM:
THAIS KALOUBEK
SEMESTER TRIP TO
CHIEMSEE
COOPERATION
WITH TURKEY
SUMMER SCHOOL
IN CAMBODIA
7TH FIG REGIONAL
CONFERENCE
WEBLOG AT GIM
INTERNATIONAL
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SPECIAL POINTS
OF INTEREST:
• Opening Ceremony
2009
• TUM Partner of GLTN
• Summer School in
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As another academic year begins at the Technische
Universität München, a new group of
international students commenced the journey
towards the attainment of the degree of Master
of Science (Msc) in Land Management and
Land Tenure.
While our senior students
are currently working on
their Master's Theses, it
was a great pleasure to
welcome our new students
in the Opening Ceremony
2009 which took place on
October 12th at our Centre
of Land, Water and Environmental
Risk Management.
Prof. Vogt
Programme Manager Jorge Espinoza introduced
in his opening the 13 new students coming
from 10 countries. He expressed gratitude
to different sponsors for their valuable support
and emphasized the development of the
high quality education by establishing new
international partnerships.
Programme Director
Prof. Dr. Magel pointed
out the challenges of
sustainable development,
based on land,
water and environmental
risk management,
which will be the Mr. Riedel
strengthened pillars of the Master‘s Programme.
After words of welcome by Prof. Dr. Norbert
Vogt, the Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering
and Geodesy, about the the internationalisation
of TUM, Matthias Riedel held an impulse
speech on behalf of the Hanns Seidel
Foundation. He mentioned the professional
qualification, dialogue and contacts as valuable
results from the Master‘s Programme.
On behalf of the Förderkreis Bodenordnung
und Landentwicklung MDirig. Maximilian Geierhos
spoke about the contribution of the Förderkreis
to the development of the Master‘s
Programme. Furthermore the Opening Cere-
The audience of the Opening Ceremony
mony 2009 was also the occasion to hand
over the Promotion Award 2009 of the Förderkreis
Bodenordnung und Landentwicklung
München e.V.
This year's prize winner is Dr.-Ing. Fahria Masum,
the first Alumna of the Master's Programme
Land Management and Land Tenure to
receive a Dr Degree. Her thesis topic was
"Actors and processes behind urban fringe
development: Mechanism to guide urban land
management. Study on Dhaka, Bangladesh".
Her thesis was graded with a 1,0 (Summa cum
laude) and the Prize was awarded to her by
the Förderkreis for her outstanding performance
in her doctoral research.
Msc. Eugene Chigbu on behalf of the Alumni
ensured the students that they made the right
choice to join the Master in Land Management
and Land Tenure, before a short reception
followed.
We are looking forward to our 9th Master's
Course of Land Management and Land Tenure
and wish all our new students a successful
start here in Munich!
MDirig. Geierhos, Dr.-Ing. Masum, Senator E.h. Hess
and Prof. Magel during hand over of the Promotion
Award of the Förderkreis

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THE NEW STUDENTS OF OUR MASTER‘S PROGRAMME LAND
MANAGEMENT AND LAND TENURE
13 students from 10 different countries began in October their Master‘s course in Land Management and Land Tenure here in
Munich. 4 of our new students are supported by a scholarship of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, 8 of them by the German Academic
Exchange Service DAAD. The participants:
• Sujit Sikder
(Bangladesh)
• Renata Chadu Dalbem (Brazil)
• Li Fang
(P. R. of China)
• Hongbo Guo
(P. R. of China)
• Wang Jing
(P. R. of China)
• Elias Danyi Kuusaana (Ghana)
• Michael Nti Appiah (Ghana)
• Aman Tandean Gidion (Indonesia)
• Gansukh Tungalag (Mongolia)
• Sanaa Anabtawi (Palestine)
• Mirzaev Nodir Khamiddjanovich (Uzbekistan)
• Hong Nguyen (Vietnam)
• Anthony Mushinge (Zambia)
SPAIN: VISIT OF PROF. BENITO OTERINO AND DR. GASPAR
FROM THE POLYTECNIC UNIVERSITY OF MADRID AT TUM
Prof. Dr. Holger Magel, Prof. Dr. Belén Benito Oterino, Dr.
Jorge M. Gaspar, Anne Ritzinger and Jorge Espinoza
Following the visit to the Polytechnic
University of Madrid (UPM) in December
2008, Jorge Espinoza and Anne
Ritzinger delivered lectures on Land
Management. This marked the beginning
of partnership between the Chair
of Land Management in particular
or TUM in general and
the Polytechnic University.
Upon this background, Prof.
Dr. Belen Benito Oterino and
Dr. Jorge M. Gasper paid a
return visit as a way to consolidate
the partnership and delivered
lectures on Environmental
Risk Management with
emphasis on the application of
GIS. It was all arranged under
the auspices of the Erasmus
Teaching Mobility Program
and the Erasmus Partnership in the
study course Geodesy and Geoinformation.
During the visit, a meeting was convened
between the visiting lecturers and
Prof. Dr. Wunderlich from the Chair of
Geodesy, Prof. Dr. Thuro from the
Chair of Engineering Geology, Dr. Krisp
from the Chair of Cartography, and Mr.
Ertac MSc, from the Chair of Geoinformation
Systems. This was meant to
give them an overview of the scientific
focus in an interdisciplinary context.
Indeed the University of Polytechnic
Madrid is starting a new Master’s Programme
in Sustainable Management,
which focuses on training specialists in
planning and evaluation of rural-local
development projects, and sustainable
management of the territories and biodiversity.
The visit marked a firm beginning
of partnership between the two
institutions as the move to maintain and
promote academic excellence.
GLTN: TUM BECOMES OFFICIAL PARTNER OF THE GLOBAL LAND
TOOL NETWORK OF UN HABITAT
The Global Land Tool Network of the
UN Habitat contributes to the implementation
of pro poor land policies to
achieve secure land rights for all people.
As it is the aim of our Centre of Land,
Water and Environmental Risk Management
to impart on our students the
scientific approaches in this field of
work, it was congruous that GLTN and
TUM started a joint cooperation. Recently
TUM joined 41 other institutions
to become the 42nd official partner of
GLTN.
Besides the segments of Rural and
Urban International Civil Societies, International
Professional Bodies, Bilateral
and Multilateral Organisations the
TUM belongs to the group of the International
Training Research Institutions.
All over the world only 12 institutions
belong to that cluster so it is a huge
honour and responsibility for us to take
part in it.
For that reason our Programme Manager
Jorge Espinoza is going to take part
in the GLTN Partner‘s Meeting in November
2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. This
event will be about „Enriching Partnership
and Increasing Activities for Land
Reform“.
Read more about GLTN on the website
www.gltn.net

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INSIDE THE COURSE: VISIT TO THIERHAUPTEN TO THE
SCHOOL OF VILLAGE AND LAND DEVELOPMENT
Mr. Pfeifer, Mrs. Augustin and their guests from Munich
On 3rd July 2009, the MSc. Land Management
students visited Thierhaupten,
and were hosted at the Agency in
Village and Rural Development (SDL).
Gerlinde Augustin, the Chief Admnistrative
Officer of the SDL, told the students
about the functions of the Agency.
With its offices in the former Benedictine
Cloisters of Thierhaupten, Rural
administrative District Augsburg, the
agency is a forum for rural areas, a
practice oriented educational institution
that seeks to optimize the transfer of
knowledge. The promotion of the initiative
from its base was one of the essential
building blocks to the success of the
IN MEMORIAM
Thais Kaloubek
* 18.01.1980
† 04.10.2009
SDL, as Augustin noted.
"A major role is played
by the motivation: to
encourage individual
initiative, it is necessary
to open people's hearts."
The flair of the former
Benedictine monastery,
sophisticated working
methods and the analysis
of complex contexts
impacted on the agency's
look to future challenges.
Against the background of demographic
and development systems
communities need technical and methodological
support to maintain the
structures and quality in their villages.
In addition, the portal www.sdlinform.de
provides more tips and information
about the area.
Economic growth, social justice, democracy
and the protection of the natural
foundations of life are unimaginable
without legal certainty in land. Certainly,
only those who can make long term
and predictable plans will be ready to
invest in the future and contribute to the
protection of livelihoods. This is true in
Germany, Central and Eastern Europe,
Africa, Asia as well as Latin America.
The concept of land management
works mainly through the interplay of
community, community participants and
citizens. Indded the agency supports
and assists communal politicians and
residents in the development of their
own village and/comminity in their
respective regions. In this respect, local
community workshops. seminars, specialist
excursions and qualifying events
are the enabling programs to political
participants to realise their own potentials
and use their ideas to practically
carry out development on a long term
basis.
Manfred Pfeiffer from the Office for
Rural development explained to the
master students about the land related
activities with an example of Thierhaupten.
Pfeiffer stressed that it involved a
lot of persuasion and tough negotiations.
The students were visibly impressed
by the tour through projects in the
areas of flood control, design of public
space, pedestrian connections, and the
recreation area through the restoration
of the "water fountain".
We lost one of our own
We regret to announce that the Master’s Programme Land Management and Land Tenure has lost one
of its participants, Thais Kaloubek.
She was a lawyer by profession and graduated from the popular Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas, in
Sao Paulo, Brazil. Thaís passed away on the 4 th of October, 2009, after being in coma for almost 40
days as a result of lymphoma.
Thais, who was in our 2007-2009 group of participants, had to go back to Brazil after one semester because
of her illness. She was on a leave of absence from study since then, but she always showed her
willingness to come back to Germany to conclude her studies.
We are deeply moved by this news. We always hoped for her to recover and come back to us. She was
such an extraordinary person that everybody missed her greatly when she had to go to back home.
Our condolences and sympathy go to her bereaved husband, family and friends.

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INSIDE THE COURSE: 3RD ANNUAL TRIP TO CHIEMSEE (HOSTED
BY THE BAYERISCHER BAUINDUSTRIEVERBAND E.V.)
Besides all the preparations for examinations
and the Master's Thesis the
Master's Course took some time for
enjoying the third annual daytrip to
Chiemsee on Monday 20th of July
2009. Like last year this wonderful and
interesting trip was hosted by the Bayerischer
Bauindustrieverband e.V.
Refreshed by this they passed with
some rowboats the Chiemsee, the biggest
lake of Bavaria, to the Fraueninsel
- German for the "isle of the women".
After joining a guided tour through this
delightful, only 300 inhabitants exhibiting
small isle the participants made a
break once again in one of the numerous
restaurants of the isle, which are
famous for their fish dishes.
rested in having an insight of the research
projects carried out by the students
every year.
Once again Gerhard Hess (Chief Executive
Officer of the Bayerischer Bauindustrieverband
e.V.) accompanied the
students and staff of the Master's Programme
Land Management and Land
Tenure in this trip.
The Bayerischer Bauindustrieverband
e.V., as one of the most important
sponsors of the Master's Programme
Land Management and Land Tenure, is
deeply committed to supporting the
programme and is therefore very inte-
Firstly the students were invited to ascend
with a ropeway on the 1669m high
Kampenwand, a popular bavarian
mountain for hiking in the Chiemgau.
As reward for their efforts they received
the wounderful panorama over this
beautiful rural part of Bavaria as well as
a typical bavarian meal called "Brotzeit"
in a mountain shelter.
The Centre of Land, Water and Environmental
Risk Management would like
to thank Mr. Hess and his staff of the
Bayerischer Bauindustrieverband e.V.
for the organization of this faboulous
daytrip.
TURKEY: CONVERSATION WITH PROF.
BÜLBÜL FROM UNIVERSITY OF ANKARA
ABOUT A POSSIBLE COOPERATION
Prof. Magel with Prof. Bülbül
For the first time, a representative of
the University of Ankara, Department of
Real Estate Development and Management,
visited our Chair with respect to a
possible cooperation.
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Bülbül, with many
decades of working closely with Germany
and German universities, as a
coordinator of the international relations
of his department, is investigating the
possibilities of an institutionalized cooperation
in the field of valuation, as well
as land and real estate management.
Prof. Magel initially asked him in the
conversation to supply the appropriate
curricula and research activities, so that
they can decide the extent to which a
scientific exchange of teachers and
students can go. Also, they discussed
the possibilities of cooperation in the
field of classification and planning of the
nature of land use, as well as the application
of valuation methods and information
systems for public property and
the verification of its further development.
The idea of a joint summer
school is being envisaged. Prof. Heißenhuber
from the Wissenschaftszentrum
Weihenstephan is expected to
contribute to the joint partnership.

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CAMBODIA: SECOND JOINT SUMMER SCHOOL: DIALOGUE
BETWEEN PRACTICE AND UNIVERSITY (SEPT 28 TO OCT 9TH)
Jointly designed and hosted by the Royal
University of Agriculture (RUA,
Phnom Penh) and the Technische Universität
München, the Summer School
in Cambodia had the key note “Land
Policy and Good Land Governance”.
Highranked governmental and institutional
members e.g. of various ministries,
land management students, as well as
collaborators of international projects of
development cooperation took part.
According to this mix of participants the
From left to right: Vun Setha (Dean), Dr. Thiel (CIM-
Expert), Prof. Magel, H.E. Dr. Chan Nareth (Rector
RUA), Dr. habil. Franz-Volker Müller (GTZ Teamleader),
Sar Sovann (General Director), Dr. Klaus
goal of the Summer School was to identify
opportunities and possibilities for
strengthening of the principles of the
rural and urban development with the
instruments village renewal, land reallocation
and valuation in Cambodia and to
communicate in particular the implementing
and lecturing of Good Land
Governance in the administration and
universities.
The course content
ranged from the current
state of “Good
Governance”, in the
Cambodian (urban
and rural) land sector
and international
aspects, the enabling
of equal living conditions in Cambodian
rural places, climate change and water
with effects on land and settlements,
gender issues to the sustainable use of
natural resources. Beside professional
aspects and interdisciplinary approaches,
the fundamental result of all discussions
was that an improvement in
the importance of “Good Governance” in
daily use cannot succeed
sufficiently
without embedding it in
the values of the society.
This applies especially
to the land sector of
course, which forms
the basis of the stabilization of the
country and therefore has to enjoy a
special confidence in the use of property.
Schools and mainly universities were
addressed and requested to
include: Professional contents,
ethical issues and standards as
well as social values in their daily
discussion and education. In this
way it may succeed to enable
the necessary awareness on
sustainable and equitable use of
property on land and buildings.
Our participants Prof. Magel and
Dr. Klaus held different lectures
as well as a final workshop. This
gave the participants
the possibility
to identify the requirements
on rural development
for Cambodia. The
results should serve as a
basis for the future of administration
and education:
a professional, crossgenerational
dialogue as
well as the deepening of the contents of
teaching at the Faculty of
Land Management. In
close coordination with
the German CIM-expert
Dr. Fabian Thiel (Faculty
Advisor at the RUA) the
goal was to start an assessment
of this curriculum.
The dialogue with the faculty was largely
designed by Dr. Klaus, while Prof.
Magel simultaneously held a workshop
on “Declaration on Spatial Planning
Policy” with the representatives of almost
all ministries. This holistic framework
is expected to integrate both all individual
land policy instruments and local
planning instruments like land use plan-
Workshop with discussion
ning. As Prof. Magel
gave already manifold
inputs for this surpose,
the commissioner for
Land Management, Mr.
Chin Kai Learng appreciated
him as “Land
Management Advisor”
of the Ministry. The high number of participants
up to 160 spoke of the success
of the Summer School and appreciated
the outstanding position of the subject
Land Management in Cambodia.
It was made possible by the renewed
financial support from the Gesellschaft
für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
under the “Land Administration Sub-
Sector Program (LASSP)”.
The General Director of the Department
of Surveying and Cadastre and Project
Director for the LASSP in the Ministry of
Land Management, Urban Planning and
Construction, Sar Sovann, spoke in
favor of continuing the dialogue in the
Mr. Sar Sovann
coming years. To enable a broad approach
in their daily dealings with the land
and people the employee of the Ministry
voted for extending the university education
measure.
In retrospect, the summer school offered
a very good and appropriate forum
for the exchange of foreign experts and
local professionals and set impulses for
the further dialogue in the direction
of "Law Enforcement" and "good governance"
in the land sector.

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VIETNAM: 7TH FIG REGIONAL CONFERENCE "SPATIAL DATA
SERVING PEOPLE" IN HANOI (19-22 OCTOBER)
On the websites of GIM International, a global magazine
for Geomatics, Prof. Magel has an own
weblog where he published recently two new comments.
The important developments in Land Management,
he is thinking about, are „Rural Capacity
Building: a strategy for engagfing rural people for
development“ and „To do the right things at the
right time: Building up a global academic partnership
(GAO)“.
You can reach the Blog under www.giminternational.com/weblog.
We invite you to visit it,
leave your comments and discuss with Prof. Magel!
Hosted by the International Federation
of Surveyors, FIG and the Viet Nam
Association of Geodesy, Cartography
and Remote Sensing, VGCR, the 7th
FIG Regional Conference took place in
Hanoi Vietnam, from 19-22 October
2009.
The theme for this year was "Spatial
Data Serving People: Land Governance
and the
Environment
- Building
the
Capacity",
which was
selected
especially
because of
its relevance
to the
"tasks of
surveyors in
Prof. Magel holds his speech
this day and
age: when humankind is closer to each
other than ever, working together towards
a sustainable development and
ensuring our Earth is everlasting green"
as Prof. Dr. Sc. Dang Hung Vo, the
President of VCGR, mentioned.
Providing an excellent opportunity for
FIG member associations and surveyors
to meet and share experiences and
achievements, the FIG Regional Conferences
"have shown to be a successful
concept that produces fruitful results
Dr. Fahria Masum, Prof. Holger Magel, Mrs.
Rhea Lyn M. Dealca and Mr. Danilo R. Antonio
We are on the web!
http://www.landmanagement-master.de
Mrs. Rhea Lyn M. Dealca
both for the region and internationally"
as Prof. Stig Enemark, President of FIG,
highlighted in the invitation.
The theme of this year was divided into
the three sub-themes which were handled
on one separate day: "Land Administration",
"Spatial Data Infrastructure
(SDI) and the Environment" as well as
"Capacity Building"; respectively linked
with different plenary session keynotes
and issues for technical sessions.
For our Centre Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel
and Dr.-Ing. Fahria Masum participated
in the Conference. Beyond that Prof.
Magel held a speech about "Capacity
building in Land Management: The need
for establishing a global academic partnership",
whereas Dr. Masum reported
about "Urban Fringe Management and
Role of Good Governance: Integrating -
Stakeholders in Land Management Process".
The famous Ha Long Bay
Joyous was it, that with Mr. Danilo R.
Antonio, Coordinator of the Global Land
Tool Network, an Alumni, and with Mrs.
Rhea Lyn M. Dealca, a present student
of our Master of Land Management and
Land Tenure enriched the programme
with their valuable contributions about
"Towards Good Land Governance"
respectively "Initiatives to Improve Land
Administration System in the Philippines".
The conference ended with an
exciting full-day excursion to Ha Long
Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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AT GIM INTERNATIONAL
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