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  1. Why managing land responsibly is more than just legal actions.

    Article • Land Use Policy, February 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  2. Shaping Future Urbanization: A Systematic Review of Predictive and Preventive LUC Indicators for Sustainable New City Development

    Article • Urban Science, November 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  3. How smart was, is and will land use planning be?

    Article • Land, November 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  4. Building higher buildings in cities creates more environmental pollution than horizontal expansion

    Article • Sustainable Cities and Society, September 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  5. The interlinkages between land consolidation and land governance – a comparative study of China and Germany

    Article • International Planning Studies, August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  6. Where do people want to live after a conflict? The case of Kabul.

    Article • Land, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  7. Fencing off sea areas needs to be part of integrated land management in coastal aeas

    Article • Land, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  8. Shifting perspectives: exploring land tenure transformation through six community-based solar energy projects in the global south (Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Namibia, Indonesia, and Peru)

    Article • Energy Sustainability and Society, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  9. How secure and responsible is Waqf land tenure?

    Article • Land, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  10. Balancing Between Land and Sea Rights—An Analysis of the ‘Pagar Laut’ (Sea Fences) in Tangerang, Indonesia

    Article • May 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  11. How far can cities grow, or is there a logical boundary of such growth?

    Article • Land, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  12. Spatial Justice and Land Tenure Security in Urban Redevelopment: Lessons from Morocco's Bouregreg Valley Project

    Article • April 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  13. Where to capture and how to re-use rainwater when building new cities sustainably.

    Article • Sustainability, November 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  14. Pros and cons of renewable energy projects for rural communities in Kenya.

    Article • Discover Sustainability, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  15. Incorporating aquatic biodiversity into sustainability index for hydrographic sub-basins: a multi-criteria stakeholder assessment approach in the Upper Paraná River

    Article • Hydrobiologia, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  16. The effectiveness of voluntary collective action in China's rural land development

    Article • Habitat International, August 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  17. Smart city and sustainability indicators: a bibliometric literature review

    Article • Discover Sustainability, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  18. Reframing Resilience Narratives for (Rural) Communities Using the Actantial Model

    Article • Sustainability, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  19. Measuring responsible in land management.

    Article • The Journal of Indonesia Sustainable Development Planning, April 2024, Pusbindiklatren Bappenas

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  20. How well mangroves are being saved in Indonesia

    Article • Global Journal of Ecology, February 2024, Peertechz.com

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  21. Assessing Flood Vulnerability from Rapid Urban Growth: A Case of Central Java — Indonesia

    Article • Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies, December 2023, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  22. Advancing Geospatial Technology to Construct Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration and Land Management in ASEAN Countries

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  23. Advancing Research in Geospatial Sciences for Land Management in Asia

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  24. An Analysis of Urban and Rural Development for the Conception of a National Spatial Plan in Thailand

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  25. Assessment of Urban Patterns Using Spatial Metrics and Prediction of Urban Growth

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  26. Developments in Geospatial Sciences for Smart Land Management in China

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  27. Developments of 3D Cadastres in the Asian Context

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  28. Ethical and Legal Issues Affecting Geospatial Sciences and Advances in Smart Land Management

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  29. Geospatial Application of Open Geospatial Data Analysis for Land Use-Change Detection—A Case Study from Japan

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  30. Geospatial Science for Smart Land Management in Asia

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  31. The Congruence and Conflicts of Spatial Data Infrastructure and Cadastral Agricultural Systems in Pakistan

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries, Dr. Asmat Ali

  32. Trends in Geospatial Technologies in Asia

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  33. A review of smart and responsible technologies for spatial planning and land management.

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  34. Urban Growth Modelling for a City Built from Scratch—Case Study of the New Indonesian Capital

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  35. Rural Development Policy in Germany Regarding Coworking Spaces and Effects on Vitality and Versatility of Rural Towns

    Article • Urban Science, August 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  36. State Capacity to Influence Actor Relations within the Chinese Real Estate Market: An Analytical Framework

    Article • Land, August 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  37. Investigation and Comparison of Spatial–Temporal Characteristics of Farmland Fragmentation in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region, China, and Bavaria, Germany

    Article • Land, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  38. Evaluating Collective Action for Effective Land Policy Reform in Developing Country Contexts: The Construction and Validation of Dimensions and Indicators

    Article • Land, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  39. Smart Land Use Planning: New Theories, New Tools and New Practice

    Article • Land, June 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  40. Evaluating How Tenure Security in Disaster Management Depends on Land Governance Based on Indonesian Case Study

    Article • BHUMI Jurnal Agraria dan Pertanahan, May 2023, Sekolah Tinggi Pertanahan Nasional

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  41. Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Rural Development in China over the Past 40 Years

    Article • Sustainability, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  42. Digital Twin for Active Stakeholder Participation in Land-Use Planning

    Article • Land, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  43. Is Obliterated Land Still Land? Tenure Security and Climate Change in Indonesia

    Article • Land, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  44. Are land reclamation projects in Indonesia responsible?

    Article • Land, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  45. An Experimental Study of the Social Dimension of Land Consolidation Using Trust Games and Public Goods Games

    Article • Land, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  46. Collective Action for the Market-Based Reform of Land Element in China: The Role of Trust

    Article • Land, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  47. An Exploration of the Land–(Renewable) Energy Nexus

    Article • Land, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  48. A Discourse Analysis of 40 Years Rural Development in China

    Article • Sustainability, April 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  49. Social Aspects in Land Consolidation Processes

    Article • Land, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  50. Integrating Urban Land Tenure Security in Health Determinants: The Design of Indicators for Measuring Land Tenure Security and Health Relationships in Developing Country Contexts

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  51. Location of Coworking Spaces (CWSs) Regarding Vicinity, Land Use and Points of Interest (POIs)

    Article • Land, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  52. Trends in The Adoption of New Geospatial Technologies for Spatial Planning and Land Management in 2021

    Article • Geoplanning Journal of Geomatics and Planning, January 2022, Center of Biomass and Renewable Energy (CBIORE)

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  53. Machine Learning Algorithms for Urban Land Use Planning: A Review

    Article • Urban Science, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  54. Applying SBM-GPA Model to Explore Urban Land Use Efficiency Considering Ecological Development in China

    Article • Land, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  55. A review of property rights in outer space from a land management perspective

    Article • Journal of Property Planning and Environmental Law, July 2021, Emerald

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  56. Housing Finance Strategies for Low-Income Households in Secondary Cities: Contextualization Under Customary Tenure in Ghana

    Article • Housing Policy Debate, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  57. Urban Greening for New Capital Cities. A Meta Review

    Article • Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, June 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  58. Beyond accuracy: evaluating alternative measurement methods in context of Flexible Land Tenure System in Namibia

    Article • Survey Review, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  59. A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis of Rural Development Research

    Article • Sustainability, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  60. Analyzing the Effects of Institutional Merger: Case of Cadastral Information Registration and Landholding Right Providing Institutions in Ethiopia

    Article • Land, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  61. Testing and Validating the Suitability of Geospatially Informed Proxies on Land Tenure in North Korea for Korean (Re-)Unification

    Article • Remote Sensing, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  62. Digitization as a Driver fur Rural Development—An Indicative Description of German Coworking Space Users

    Article • Land, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  63. Land Tenure Security and Health Nexus: A Conceptual Framework for Navigating the Connections between Land Tenure Security and Health

    Article • Land, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  64. Toward Smart Land Management: Land Acquisition and the Associated Challenges in Ghana. A Look into a Blockchain Digital Land Registry for Prospects

    Article • Land, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  65. An Evaluation of Massive Land Interventions for the Relocation of Capital Cities

    Article • Urban Science, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  66. Establishment of Land Use Suitability Mapping Criteria Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with Practitioners and Beneficiaries

    Article • Land, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  67. The Production of Pastoral Space: Modeling Spatial Occupation of Grazing Land for Environmental Impact Assessment Using Structural Equation Modeling

    Article • Land, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  68. Farmland Fragmentation, Farmland Consolidation and Food Security: Relationships, Research Lapses and Future Perspectives

    Article • Land, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  69. Synthesizing the dilemmas and prospects for a peri-urban land use management framework: Evidence from Ethiopia

    Article • Land Use Policy, January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  70. Evaluating the Quality of Land Information for Peri-Urban Land-Related Decision-Making: An Empirical Analysis from Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

    Article • Land, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  71. Performance Evaluation of the Urban Cadastral System in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Article • Land, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  72. Transparency of Land Administration and the Role of Blockchain Technology, a Four-Dimensional Framework Analysis from the Ghanaian Land Perspective

    Article • Land, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  73. Determining Indicators Related to Land Management Interventions to Measure Spatial Inequalities in an Urban (Re)Development Process

    Article • Land, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  74. A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Land Use Dynamics and Process of Land Intervention in the Peri-Urban Areas of Bahir Dar City

    Article • Land, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  75. Can In-Kind Compensation for Expropriated Real Property Promote Spatial Justice? A Case Study Analysis of Resettlement in Kigali City, Rwanda

    Article • Sustainability, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  76. Access to Affordable Houses for the Low-Income Urban Dwellers in Kigali: Analysis Based on Sale Prices

    Article • Land, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  77. An Evaluation Framework for Urban Cadastral System Policy in Ethiopia

    Article • Land, February 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  78. Bridging the Semantic Gap between Land Tenure and EO Data: Conceptual and Methodological Underpinnings for a Geospatially Informed Analysis

    Article • Remote Sensing, January 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  79. Random Spatial and Systematic Random Sampling Approach to Development Survey Data: Evidence from Field Application in Malawi

    Article • Sustainability, December 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  80. Identifying Human Recognition Deprived Women: Evidence from Malawi and Peru

    Article • The Journal of Development Studies, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries, Ebelechukwu Maduekwe, Prof. Dr. Gertrud Buchenrieder

  81. Scoping land tenure security for the poor and low-income urban dwellers from a spatial justice lens

    Article • Habitat International, September 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  82. Measuring Human Recognition for Women in Malawi using the Alkire Foster Method of Multidimensional Poverty Counting

    Article • Social Indicators Research, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Gertrud Buchenrieder, Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  83. Comparative Review of Methods Supporting Decision-Making in Urban Development and Land Management

    Article • Land, August 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  84. Evaluating the effectiveness of the environmental impact assessment process in Mongolia for nomadic-pastoral land users

    Article • Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  85. Sustaining a Culture of Excellence: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Land Management

    Article • Sustainability, June 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  86. Why Tenure Responsive Land-Use Planning Matters: Insights for Land Use Consolidation for Food Security in Rwanda

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, April 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  87. Land Governance Re-Arrangements: The One-Country One-System (OCOS) Versus One-Country Two-System (OCTS) Approach

    Article • Administrative Sciences, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  88. Expropriation of Real Property in Kigali City: Scoping the Patterns of Spatial Justice

    Article • Land, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  89. Renewable Energy as an Underutilised Resource in Cities: Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ and Lessons for Post-Brexit Cities in the United Kingdom

    Article • Resources, December 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  90. Indicators for Measuring Spatial Justice and Land Tenure Security for Poor and Low Income Urban Dwellers

    Article • Land, July 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  91. A divided nation: Rethinking and rescaling land tenure in the Korean (re-)unification

    Article • Land Use Policy, June 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  92. Combining land-use planning and tenure security: a tenure responsive land-use planning approach for developing countries

    Article • Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  93. Urbanization. How it changes the daily lives of previous farmers. Evidence from Hanoi, Vietnam.

    Article • Land Use Policy, July 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  94. Participatory rapid co-design for transformative resource governance research in the Gulf of Guinea

    Article • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, June 2016, Elsevier

    C. Kamala Kaghoma, Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  95. Should organisations dealing with land and property become one?

    Article • Transforming Government People Process and Policy, October 2015, Emerald

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  96. Conflicting policy beliefs and informational complexities in designing a transboundary enforcement monitoring system

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  97. The Contradictory Effects in Efficiency and Citizens’ Participation when Employing Geo-ICT Apps within Local Government

    Article • Local Government Studies, August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  98. The point cadastre requirement revisited

    Article • Survey Review, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Dr Christiaan Lemmen, Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  99. The Tool That Has to Build Itself: The Case of Dutch Geo-Data

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  100. Discretionary Space as a Concept to Review Innovation in Land Administration in Africa

    Article • Survey Review, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  101. Framing the use of geo-information in government: a tale of two perspectives

    Article • Earth Science Informatics, November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  102. Are urban land tenure regulations in Namibia the solution or the problem?

    Article • Land Use Policy, October 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  103. Unity in Diversity: An Analysis of Inter-governmental Cooperation in the Field of geoICT

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries

  104. How progressive land titling could foster new surveying practices and land information systems––based on case studies in Namibia

    Article • Computers Environment and Urban Systems, September 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Walter Timo de Vries