The international Alliance on Land Tenure and Administration (IALTA) is a newly established international network of researchers on land management and land administration first initiated by the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, in collaboration with international partners, including our TUM Centre of Land, Water and Environmental Risk Management.

"The overarching goal of IALTA is to contribute to sustainable land administration in a globalized context through research collaboration that brings together academics from disciplines and knowledge-based organizations to share knowledge and data, develop and discuss research and help practitioners and policy makers improve their understanding and practices concerning land tenure and administration". This overarching goal is in line with the strong comittment of the Centre of Land, Water and Environmental Risk Management to promote the establishment of a Global Academic Partnership (GAP) on land management and administration.

The second expert meeting of IALTA was held in Munich on 25th of October 2010 and gathered land-experts from numerous countries and relevant institutions. The purpose of the meeting was to formulate and discuss the main targets of the network as well as what the next steps will be in order to realize the objectives mentioned above.

The participants of the second Expert Meeting of IALTA (from left to right): Prof. Gerhardus Schultink (Michigan State University, USA), Prof. Jianping Ye (Renmin University, China), Dipl.-Ing. MSc Jorge Espinoza (TUM), Prof. Jan-Michiel Otto (Leiden University, Netherlands), Ir. Louisa Jansen (Kadaster Netherlands), Prof. Holger Magel (TUM), Prof. Hanri Mostert (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Prof. Wilbert Kolkman (University of Groningen, Netherlands), Ms. Narine Mkrtchyan (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Prof. Leon Verstappen (University of Groningen, Netherlands), Dr. Fahria Masum (TUM), Mr. Eelke van der Ree (University of Groningen. Netherlands), Ms. Liz Alden Wily (International Land Tenure Specialist, Kenya), Prof. Jaap Zevenbergen (ITC University of Twente, Netherlands), Prof. Hans Mattsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Dr. Michael Klaus (TUM), Dr. Yongjun Zaho (University of Groningen, Netherlands). Participants not in the picture: Prof. Weidong Qu (Renmin University, China), Mr. Samuel Mabikke (MSc) (TUM).