Prof. Dr. Thomas Hartmann

Thomas Hartmann has a special expertise and research interest in: 

• Land policies, instruments and strategies of land policy,
• Flood risk management, resilience, and water governance,
• Justice and ethics in spatial planning.

Thomas Hartmann is also the

• former president (2020-2024) of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights (PLPR, www.plpr-association.org),
• vice-chair of the IWRA Task Force LAND4FLOOD (www.land4flood.eu),
• chair of the international working group on Land Policies in Europe of the German Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (ARL, www.arl-net.de).
• Lead PI in the European Horizon project LAND4CLIMATE, together with Stefan Greiving (www.land4climate.eu).

In addition he is associate editor of WIRES Water and the Journal of Flood Risk Management, next to other editorial boards.

You may approach him in English, German, or Dutch.

Full Professor at TU Dortmund University

As chair for land policy and land management at the school of spatial planning, he focusses in strategies of municipal land policy and on property rights and climate change, with a special focus on flood risk management.

International affiliations

Thomas Hartmann is also affiliated as a guest professor with the Czech Jan Evangelista Purkyne University (UJEP) in Usti nad Labem, Faculty of Social and Economic Studies. During the winter semesters 2015/2016 and 2017/2018, Thomas Hartmann is guest professor at the University of Vienna, Department of Geography and Regional Research, where he teaches courses on "Justice in the City" and "Land Policy for Scarce Ressources". In addition, Thomas Hartmann teaches as guest lecturer at Bonn University (Germany) in the master programme "Disaster Prevention and Management" the module "Flood Risk Management".

Accociate Professor at Wageningen Univeristy

2018-2021, Thomas Hartmann taught and researched as Associate Professor at the Land Use Planning group at Wageningen University.

Assistant Professor at Utrecht University

Thomas Hartmann was assistant professor at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University between 2013-2018. He is an active member of the Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht (URU), teached in the BSc Spatial Planning and MSc Spatial Planning, and he was the coordinator of the master programme on Spatial Planning.

PostDoc at Utrecht University

In 2010, he started as a postdoc at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University. He started teaching Planning Theory in the BSc Planologie and researched on the relation of land and water from various perspectives.

Research assistant & PhD at TU Dortmund University

Since 2005, Thomas Hartmann worked as research assistant at the department for Land Policy, Land Management and Municipal Geoinformation of the Department of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University. He taught and supervised various courses, completed research activities - independently and in collaboration, and worked on his PhD. In 2009, he finished his PhD on "Clumsy Floodplains - Responsive Land Policy for Extreme Floods", at the Department of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University and received the academic title "Dr. rer.pol." (rerum politicarum). During this time he spent some time as guest researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

Study of Spatial Planning

Thomas Hartmann is an engineer of spatial planning (Dipl.-Ing), which he studied Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University and the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He focused his study on flood protection and spatial planning.

Since 2023       
Appointed member of board of land value appraisers in the City of Hagen.

2021-2025       
Vice Chair of the IWRA Task Force LAND4FLOOD „Natural Flood Retention on Private Land“, www.land4flood.eu.

2023-2027      
Member of Working Group (creative practices, arts and outreach) of COST Action SHiFT (CA21166) “Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience”, https://shift-cost.eu/.

2021-2023        
Advisory Board of the Horizon 2020 project SUMEX on SUstainable Management in EXtractive Industries.

2020                
Mentor at the PhD Workshop the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights.

2020                
Programme Committee member of the conference “Sustainable & Resilient Urban-Rural Partnerships – URP2020”.

2020                
Mentor at the PhD e-Seminar of AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning).

2020                
Mentor for the AESOP Young Academics (Association of European Schools of Planning) (Virtual) Expert Clinic.

2020-2024      
President of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (www.plpr-association.org).

2019        
Member of the Academic Advisory Board in the project on policy coordination in flood risk management at BOKU, Vienna, AT.

2019                
Mentor of the PhD workshop in Italy at the AESOP Young Academics (Association of European Schools of Planning)

2019-2023       
Work Package Leader of the expert group „Resilience in Flood Risk Management“ of the German association for water, wastewater, and waste management (DWA)

2018-2021       
Member of Periodiek Overleg Planologie (regular meeting of Dutch planning professors)

2017-2021       
Vice Chair of the COST Action “LAND4FLOOD – Natural Flood Risk Management on Private Land” www.land4flood.eu

2017-2022       
Member of the working group of the German Associations of Environmental Engineers (BWK) on "high groundwater".

2017                
Member of the organization committee of the LANDac conference – conference on Land Governance, Utrecht, NL (June 2017).

2016-2019       
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the project RegioFlood at BOKU, Vienna, AT.

2016–2020       
Vice-President of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (www.plpr-association.org).

2016        
Controller & project manager of the project HochwasserPass (Floodlabel) at HKC (www.hkc-online.de).

2015-2018       
Dutch representative of the Management Committee COST Action “Innovations in Climate Governance: Sources, Patterns and Effects” (INOGOV).

2015–2017       
Member of the Scientific Board in the project "Cross-border Flood Risk Management", financed by the Czech Ministry for Education.

2015–2018       
Main contact for the Department Human Geography and Planning in AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning)..

2015                
Member of the international expert group for the communication of the complexity of climate change (in cooperation with the Institute IREUS, Stuttgart, and the German Academy for Spatial Planning and Research, ARL).

2014-2022       
Member of the OECD Water Governance Initiative. 2015, the Water Governance Principles have been ratified by the 34 member states of OECD.

2014        
Member of the experts group on land readjustment by the Dutch Cadastre.

2014 – 2016     
Member of the working group „Grundstücksverfügbarkeit für hydromorphologische Maßnahmen” of the German Associations of Environmental Engineers (BWK)

2010 – 2014      
Secretary General of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (www.plpr-association.org).

2008 – 2010      
PhD Coordinator of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (www.plpr-association.org).

2007 – 2023     
Speaker of the Advisory Board of the German Centre for Flood Knowledge & Action (HochwasserKompetenzCentrum, www.hkc-online.de).

Journal of Law & Public Policy (NLSIU)
(since 2025)

Raumforschung & Raumordnung
(since 2020)

WIRES Water
(since 2018)

Journal of Flood Risk Management
(since 2017)

Urban Planning
(2017-2023)

TeMA – Land Use, Mobility & Environment
(since 2015)

Geoscape Journal
(since 2019)

Transactions of AESOP
(since 2016)

InPlanning NL
(2015-2021)

• Since 07/2023
  Substitute Member of the promotion committee of the Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University.
• Since 07/2022
  Member of the Faculty Board of the Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University.
• Since 07/2022
  Contact person for study scholarships
• Since 07/2022
  Coordinator for the SPRING-Partnership of TU Dortmund University with Ghana

since 2024        Member of the Geodesy Branch of the Bavarian Academy of Science (DGK)

since 2021         Member of the Informationskreis für Raumplanung (IfR)

since 2021         Member of the AESOP thematic group "Planning Theories"

since 2020         Fellow of NORMACTIVITY –
Research Network on Human and Non-Human Normativity (www.normactivity.com)

since 2016         Member of the AESOP thematic group „Ethics, Values & Planning“

since 2014         IWRA (International Water Resource Association)

since 2014         Food, Energy, Environment & Water (FE²W) Network

since 2008         Founding member of AESOP group „Risk Resilience & Mitigation Strategies”

since 2007         Founding member of the International Academic Association on
Planning, Law, and Property Rights (www.plpr-association.org).

since 2007         Founding member of the HochwasserKompetenzCentrum (HKC)

since 2006         AESOP Young Academics Network

2005-2015         Junges Forum, Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (ARL)

„Grund zum Planen – Dortmunder Konferenz über nqachhaltigen Städtebau“, WDR5, 10.02.2025.

“Muss Wohnen so teuer sein?”, ARTE - 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles, 11.10.2024.

Qub TV, Emisiuni: „LAND4CLIMATE“, 16.09.2024.

"LAND4CLIMATE", WDR5 Westblick Aktuell (Radio): "Horizon-Förderung für NRW-Forschung". 27.03.2024.

PodCast Becoming a post-growth planner - obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices, https://open.spotify.com/episode/5lOX2QK2KtZOgQ996dULuL

PodCast “SUMEX – Sustainable Mining of Extratrive Industries: Land Use Planning”, 24.04.2023, https://efgeocloud.eu/s/PtE7CQCTRYwH8L9

PodCast “Wasser Marsch - Der Hochwasserschutz-Podcast”. Gerald Hübner Hochwasserschutz, 26.08.2022

“Technische Universität Dortmund und Stadt Büren führen Forschungsarbeit durch”. PaderZeitung, 04.02.2022

“Openbare Ruimte vraagt om goeroes Managing Public Space”. Interview about Managing Public Space with Verkeerskunde, 19.02.2021, www.verkeerskunde.nl/2021/1MPS

Statements on Planning – video series on Planning, Law, and Property Rights produced in collaboration of the PLPR and ARL. Interviews by Thomas Hartmann

How do planning, law, and property rights matter? youtu.be/7KsIBMO9QgM

What are relevant topics of planning, law, and property rights? youtu.be/xfFkMaEyC1A

Why should this be discussed internationally? youtu.be/I4iQQrvavwo

“De emancipatie van beheer - Programma Managing Public Space zet een ‘academische kop’ op beheer”. Interview about Managing Public Space with Stadswerk, January 2021.

“Transparantie en organische ontwikkeling als basis”. Interview about land readjustment in Germany in the ROMagazine, 01.08.2019.

“Nieuwe leerstoel beheer 3.0”. Interview with Binnenlands Bestuur, 17.09.2019

“Mehr oder weniger? Raumentwicklung braucht Postwachstum!“. Video contribution to the ARL-Kongress 2019 (https://www.arl-net.de/blog/arl-kongress-2019-im-rückblick).

“Onderzoekers: woningbouw versnellen kan niet zonder concessies van gemeenten”. Gebiedsontwikkeling.nu, 29 April 2019 (https://www.gebiedsontwikkeling.nu/artikelen/onderzoekers-woningbouw-versnellen-kan-niet-zonder-concessies-van-gemeenten/)

“Versnellen van de woningbouwproductie: wens of realiteit?”. 17 April 2019, Platform31 (https://www.platform31.nl/nieuws/versnellen-van-de-woningbouwproductie-wens-of-realiteit)

“Klein Wonen”. 12.03.2019, PWS Documentaire, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aJIvrOgm6M&t=572s)

"How land matters in flood risk management". IWRA Webinar and policy brief, 20.06.2018, www.iwra.or

Stadtraum als Freiraum für alle. Interview with Journal „Wien.at“, 31.07.2017.

Uni-Projekt: Bürger als Stadtführer gesucht. Report in the German newspaper „Rheinpfalz“, 28.04.2017.

Ludwigshafen erfindet sich gerade neu. Interview with the German newspaper „Rheinpfalz“, 07.06.2016.

„Стогодишња вода” застарео је термин (“Centennial Flood” is an outdated term).Interview in Serbian Newspaper “Dnevnik”, 21.05.2016

“Frontiers of land and water governance”, IWRA Webinar and policy brief, 15.12.2014, https://www.iwra.or

2020 Nominee for the “Best Teacher Award” of Wageningen Univeristy.

2019 student award “Vak van de Hucht” for the best course in the MSc programme Spatial Planning at Wageningen University for the course “Planning Society & Innovation”.

2017 Most Influential Paper Award of the American Journal of Climate Change for:
Hartmann, T. & Spit, T.J.M. (2014). Capacity Building for the Integration of Climate Adaptation into Urban Planning Processes: The Dutch Experience. AJCC, 3(3), 245-52

Medal of honour: “Einsatzmedaille Fluthilfe 2002” by the Minister of the Interior of Germany

Medal of honour: “Hochwassermedaille 2002” by the Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt

2025

• Lacoere, Peter; Hengstermann, Andreas; Hartmann, Thomas (06.11.2025). No-Net Land Take in Europe, ILUS conference, Dresden (DE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (30.10.2025). BauTurbo, 26. Wertermittlungstag AGVGA.NRW, Gelsenkirchen (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (28.10.2025). Reflections on ARL Brussels Talk on Land Policies in Europe: No Net Land Take, the housing crisis and densification, UBA Webinar “Being serious about no net land take: Land take mitigation – challenges and solutions”, Online. Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (01.10.2025). Land Policies in Europe – No Net Land Take, the housing crisis and densification, ARL Brussels Talk, Brussels (BE). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (26.09.2025). BauTurbo, Konferenz „Netzwerk Mieten und Wohnen 2025“, Dortmund (DE). Invited speaker.
• Jüpner, Robert; Hartmann, Thomas (04.09.2025). Philanthropic Landowners and where to find them: Lessons learned on implementing nature-based solutions on private land, LAND4FLOOD conference, Timișoara (RO). Academic presentation.
• Jüpner, Robert; Hartmann, Thomas (04.09.2025). Resilience in Flood Risk Management – A multi-dimensional approach and its practical implications, LAND4FLOOD conference, Timișoara (RO). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas; Hengstermann, Andreas; Jehling, Mathias; Schindelegger, Arthur; Wenner, Fabian (07.03.2025). Land Policies in Europe – 12 case walks, PLPR conference (special session), Cardiff (UK). Academic presentation.
• Holtkötter, Sophie; Hartmann, Thomas (07.03.2025). Implementation of NBS on private land – Pursued land policy instruments and strategies in different European countries, PLPR conference, Cardiff (UK). Academic presentation.
• Jehling, Mathias; Sommer, Felicitas; Hartmann, Thomas; Erhardt, Denise (06.03.2025). Who drives urban densification? – Linking landownership and spatial dynamics, PLPR conference, Cardiff (UK). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas; Frank, Susanne; Roboger, Cornelia (05.03.2025). Inertia of Suburban Densification – Fear and Fetish of Private Property, PLPR conference, Cardiff (UK). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (05.06.2025). LAND4CLIMATE, TU im Gespräch, TU Dortmund, Dortmund (DE). Podium debate.
• Hartmann, Thomas (04.06.2025). Der BauTurbo und was sich die neue Bundesregierung zur Bodenpolitik vornimmt, AG Umlegungsausschüsse, Hagen (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (03.06.2025). Bodenmarkttransparenz in Europa, AG der Vorsitzenden der Gutachterausschüsse in NRW, Hagen (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (26.05.2025). Der BauTurbo und was sich die neue Bundesregierung zur Bodenpolitik vornimmt, LBBW Immobilien, Stuttgart (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (03.04.2025). Land Policy in Germany, Workshop on comparative research in spatial planning, TU Dortmund, Dortmund (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (25.03.2025). LAND4CLIMATE, European Green Infrastructure Summit, Essen (DE). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (25.03.2025). SUBDENSE – Suburban densification in Dortmund, City of Dortmund, Dortmund (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (24.03.2025). LAND4CLIMATE – A step closer to climate resilience, Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague (NL). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (05.02.2025). Land policy in Germany, Guest lecture in the course “Comparative Spatial Planning and Metropolitan Development”, Nijmegen (NL). Guest lecture.

2024

• Hartmann, Thomas (20.11.2024). Land Policies in Europe, Workshop of TANDEM and Deutsch-Französisches Zukunftswerk “Land – a coveted, limited resource worth protecting”, Lille (FR). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (08.11.2024). Results of the International Working Group of the ARL on Land Policies in Europe, Follow-Up Workshop on International Comparative Planning Studies, Dortmund (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (06.11.2024). Stadtumbau in Hagen – Präsentation der Ergebnisse der Planungskartographie 2024, Hagen (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (31.10.2024). Boden und Wohnen – warum wir unnachhaltige, unresiliente und ungerechte Städte bauen, 24. Konferenz für Planerinnen und Planer NRW „(Neue) Flächenansprüche und die Flächenwende“, Düsseldorf (DE). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (13.08.2024). Warum wir unnachhaltige, unresiliente und ungerechte Städte bauen, SchnupperUni TU Dortmund, Dortmund (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (15.07.2024). Vom Hochwasserrisikomanagement zur Resilienz: Ideen, Lösungsansätze und Beispiele, DWA-Webinar „Resilienz im Hochwasser- und Starkregenmanagement – 3 Jahre nach der Ahrtalflut“, Online. Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (11.06.2024). Invited expert to Leibniz im Bundestag, Berlin (DE). Invited expert.
• Hartmann, Thomas (04.06.2024). Bodenpolitik und Wertermittlung, Meeting of the speakers of board of appraisers NRW, Hagen (DE). Invited presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (23.05.2024). Boden und Wohnen – warum wir unnachhaltige, unresiliente und ungerechte Städte bauen, Große Dienstbesprechung oberste und obere Kommunalaufsichtsbehörden sowie GPA NRW, Unna (DE). Invited presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (20.03.2024). Land Policy in Germany – The struggle between private property rights and public interest, PLPR conference, Munich (DE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (20.03.2024). Policies for land and property: The German land question in light of 50 years of urban development reports, PLPR conference, Munich (DE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (14.03.2024). LAND4CLIMATE, Horizont Europa.NRW – Erfolge im Blick (Ministry of Culture and Science NRW), Düsseldorf (DE). Invited poster presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (06.03.2024). LAND4CLIMATE & Wassersensible Stadtgestaltung, Schwammstadt, Mittelgebirgskonferenz „Anpassung an die Folgen des Klimawandels“, Online. Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (14.02.2024). Land policy in Germany, Guest lecture in the course “Comparative Spatial Planning and Metropolitan Development”, Nijmegen (NL). Guest lecture.

2023

• Hartmann, Thomas (14.12.2023). LAND4CLIMATE – Utilization of private land for mainstreaming nature-based solutions in the systemic transformation towards a climate-resilient Europe, Euregio Maas-Rhein meeting, Eupen (BE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (21.11.2023). Problemimmobilienkataster Hagen, City of Hagen, Hagen (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (20.11.2023). Survive and Thrive in Academia, Leibniz-R PostDoc Event, Online. Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (17.11.2023). Bodenpolitiken in Europa, General Member Assembly of the ARL, Berlin (DE). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (24.10.2023). Land Policy and Land Valuation, DFG Symposium “Value.Use.Property” at RWTH Aachen, Aachen (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (19.10.2023). Bodenpolitische Strategien für Grund zum Wohnen – aktive Bodenpolitik und Baulandumlegung in Deutschland und den Niederlanden, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Umlegungsausschüsse, Rheine (DE). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (26.06.2023). Resilienz im Hochwasser- und Starkregenrisikomanagement, 18. Sach-Schadenverhütungstag 2023, GDV, Düsseldorf (DE). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (26.06.2023). Land Policies in Europe, Ausbildung der Regierungsbaureferendare Fachrichtung „Städtebau“, Dortmund (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (20.06.2023). Bodenpolitik und Wertermittlung, Plenarsitzung der AGVGA.NRW, Hagen (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (16.06.2023). International Research Networks – LAND4FLOOD, Funding Week TU Dortmund, Dortmund (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (04.05.2023). Land policy for densification, PLPR conference, Ann Arbor (US). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (28.03.2023). Land policy in Germany, MSci (Hons) Planning, Regeneration and Development, Ulster University (Online), Belfast (UK). Guest lecture.
• Hartmann, Thomas (23.03.2023). Land policy in Germany, International student fieldtrip (School of Environment, Education & Development, University of Manchester), Dortmund (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (13.03.2023). Land policy for the new land question, SPUR Research Colloquium, ETH Zürich, Zürich (CH). Guest lecture.
• Hartmann, Thomas (08.02.2023). Land policy in Germany, Guest lecture in the course “Comparative Spatial Planning and Metropolitan Development”, Nijmegen (NL). Guest lecture.

2022

• Hartmann, Thomas (07.11.2022). Land Use Planning, MOOC “Sustainable Management in the Extractive Industry (SUMEX)”, Online. Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (29.09.2022). Land for Flood Retention and Resilience, Launch of the planning process on an Israeli national statutory plan on flood management, Online (IL). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (04.07.2022). Herausforderungen bodenpolitischer Raumforschung, Expertenworkshop „Theorien, Politik und Entwicklungslinien der räumlichen Planung“, Hannover (DE). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (29.06.2022). Urban floods and private land – challenges of implementing nature-based solutions, TERRAenVISION conference, Utrecht (NL). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (23.06.2022). Public value capture as land policy, COST Action conference on Public Value Capture, Warsaw (PL). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (22.05.2022). LAND4FLOOD, Meeting of the COST Scientific Board, Brussels (BE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (17.03.2022). Dynamics of Land Policies in Europe, Faculty of Social Economics, J.E.P. University Ústí nad Labem, Ústí nad Labem (CZ). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (16.05.2022). Moderation, HKC Conference, Cologne (DE). Moderator.
• Hartmann, Thomas (04.03.2022). Stakeholder involvement in LAND4FLOOD, Webinar “Stakeholder cooperation in COST Actions”, Online. Invited speaker.

2021

• Hartmann, Thomas (10.02.2021). Resilienz im Hochwasser- und Starkregenrisikomanagement, PhD seminar of Civil Engineering, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (09.04.2021). Wohnungsnot, Flächensparen und Nachverdichtung: Bodenpolitik für die neue Bodenfrage, CampusKonferenz Landschaftsentwicklung 2021, Osnabrück (DE). Keynote.

2020

• Hartmann, Thomas (19.02.2020). The strategic use of land policy instruments for affordable housing in the Swiss private rental market, PLPR conference, Ústí nad Labem (CZ). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (19.02.2020). Rationales of municipal strategies of land policy, PLPR conference, Ústí nad Labem (CZ). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (19.02.2020). Land management for spatial flood risk management in Germany, PLPR conference, Ústí nad Labem (CZ). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (19.02.2020). Housing, land thrift and densification in European land policies – a comparative public policy analysis, PLPR conference, Ústí nad Labem (CZ). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (19.02.2020). Here there be dragons: A consideration of water as property in the common law and civil code legal traditions, PLPR conference, Ústí nad Labem (CZ). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (04.05.2020). COST Action LAND4FLOOD – Natural Flood Retention on Private Land: Overview of recent activities and future plans, EGU conference 2020, Online. Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (19.02.2020). Comparisons of land-take trends and land-take confinement strategies in Europe, SURFACE roundtable (UFZ) at PLPR, Ústí nad Labem (CZ). Invited speaker.

2019

• Hartmann, Thomas (03.12.2019). Bodenpolitik in Deutschland – quo vadis?, Konferenz „Große Quartiere“, Aachen (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (28.11.2019). Hoe zou de beheerder ze aanpakken en hoe kijken wetenschappers daar tegenaan?, Nationaal Congres Beheer Openbare Ruimte (NCBOR), Zaandam (NL). Session moderator.
• Hartmann, Thomas (27.11.2019). Regionales Wohnungsmarktkonzept, RVR-Workshop, Essen (DE). Invited expert.
• Hartmann, Thomas (17.10.2019). European Land Policies – Housing, land thrift and densification, Seminar „Die Zukunft des Städtebaus“, Bonn (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (11.07.2019). Nature-based Flood Risk Management on Private Land, AESOP congress, Venice (IT). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (10.07.2019). Floodplains – Responsive Land Policy Using the Game Theory, Conference on Integrated Watershed Management, Israel Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Tel Aviv (IL). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (05.07.2019). Between Theory & Practice – The role of planners in the age of transition, AESOP PhD Workshop, Ferrara (IT). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (23.05.2019). Wat is er gebeurd met Planners’ Paradise? Een analyse van Nederlands gemeentelijk grondbeleid, PlanDag, Turnhout (BE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (22.01.2019). Bodenpolitische Strategien für Grund zum Wohnen – aktive Bodenpolitik und Baulandumlegung in Deutschland und den Niederlanden, Geodätisches Institut der Universität Hannover, Hannover (DE). Invited guest lecture.
• Hartmann, Thomas (21.02.2019). Getting land for flood risk management – A legal and policy analysis of formal instruments in Germany, PLPR conference, College Station, TX (US). Academic presentation.

2018

• Hartmann, Thomas (15.11.2018). 50 years spatial planning, Symposium „50 Jahre Raumplanung“ (TU Dortmund), Dortmund (DE). Invited podium speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (09.11.2018). Grund zum Wohnen – bodenpolitische Strategien in Deutschland und den Niederlanden, Workshop „Das Erbbaurecht. Boden als Ressource bezahlbaren Wohnraums“, Weimar (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (14.10.2018). OECD Water Governance principles on the local scale – an exploration in Dutch water management, Water Science Impact conference, Wageningen (NL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (13.07.2018). On the political dimension of instruments of land policy – how stakeholders strategically influence scarcity of land, AESOP congress, Gothenburg (SE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (13.07.2018). Roundtable: Jane Jacobs’ “life of cities” and justice in the city – A contemporary debate, AESOP congress, Gothenburg (SE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (20.06.2018). IWRA Webinar: How land matters for flood risk management, COST Action LAND4FLOOD workshop, Riga (LV). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (05.04.2018). Kavelruil – waar past het wél, Kavelruil conference (Dutch Cadastre), Amsterdam (NL). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (20.02.2018). Urban land readjustment – voluntary or mandatory?, International Academic Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Novi Sad (RS). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (20.02.2018). Roundtable: Instruments of land policy – Dealing with scarcity of land, International Academic Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Novi Sad (RS). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (20.02.2018). Roundtable: Property Rights & Climate Change – Land use under changing environmental conditions, International Academic Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Novi Sad (RS). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (05.02.2018). Instrumente der Bodenpolitik: Zum Umgang mit Knappheit von Boden, Dortmunder Konferenz zur Raumplanung, Dortmund (DE). Academic presentation.

2017

• Hartmann, Thomas (15.11.2017). A policy brief on Land for Flood Risk Management, OECD Water Governance Initiative, Wien (AT). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (15.09.2017). Der Hochwasserpass, HKC Jubiläumsveranstaltung „10 Jahre“, Köln (DE). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (15.03.2017). Widerspruch und Überlagerung – räumliche Szenarien zur Gerechtigkeit, Münchner Tage für nachhaltiges Landmanagement, München (DE). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (08.09.2017). Compensation for spatial flood measures in Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands: A social justice perspective, International Conference on Flood Management, Leeds (UK). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (29.06.2017). Missing the exit – Can binding land-use plans meet changing land use needs?, LANDac conference, Utrecht (NL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (24.02.2017). Compulsory land acquisition in the Netherlands, International Academic Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Hong Kong (CN). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (23.02.2017). Role of the state and role of property in land policies – exploring tendencies in Swiss and Dutch land policy, International Academic Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Hong Kong (CN). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (23.02.2017). Urban planning in a suburban world: Germany’s regional land-use plans, International Academic Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Hong Kong (CN). Academic presentation.

2016

• Hartmann, Thomas (19.09.2016). Flood Label for buildings – a tool for more flood-resilient cities, European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk 2016), Lyon (FR). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (24.05.2016). The clumsy city by design: a theory for Jane Jacobs’ imperfect cities?, Conference on Jane Jacobs’ 100th anniversary, TU Delft, Delft (NL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (23.02.2016). Clumsy Cities – Justice and Urban Design, AESOP Thematic Group Meeting “New spaces of inequality”, Wageningen (NL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (22.02.2016). Responsive Partizipation zur aktiven Einbeziehung von Bürgern zum Hochwasserrisikomanagementplan, Dortmunder Konferenz Raum- und Planungsforschung, Dortmund (DE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (07.05.2016). The European flood risk management plan, Science & Education Festival, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad (RS). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (06.05.2016). Responsive land policy for extreme floods, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad (RS). Invited guest lecture.
• Hartmann, Thomas (10.11.2016). Understanding rationales of land policy – The development of an analytical framework, Symposium “Land Consolidation and Land Readjustment for Sustainable Development”, Apeldoorn (NL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (10.11.2016). Urban land readjustment – voluntary or mandatory?, Symposium “Land Consolidation and Land Readjustment for Sustainable Development”, Apeldoorn (NL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (10.11.2016). Role of the state and role of property – Comparing recent tendencies in Swiss and Dutch land policy, Symposium “Land Consolidation and Land Readjustment for Sustainable Development”, Apeldoorn (NL). Academic presentation.

2015

• Hartmann, Thomas (02.11.2015). Frontiers of Land and Water Governance, OECD Water Governance Initiative, Paris (FR). Keynote.
• Hartmann, Thomas (17.09.2015). Moderator – Developing methods and indicators for monitoring and evaluating adaptation, European Environmental Evaluators Network (EEEN), Florence (IT). Moderator.
• Hartmann, Thomas (15.09.2015). Land Policies & Instruments in Europe – passive and active approaches, Online-Conference “Land Governance” (Indian Centre for Innovations in Public Systems), Online. Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (14.07.2015). Constructing risks – internalisation of flood risks using the process of the flood risk management plans, AESOP congress, Prague (CZ). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (14.07.2015). Designing a PSS for responsive participation for flood resilient cities, AESOP congress, Prague (CZ). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (30.06.2015). Was wird aus planners’ paradise? Aktuelle Entwicklungen im niederländischen Bodenmanagement, TU Dortmund, Dortmund (DE). Invited guest lecture.
• Hartmann, Thomas (28.05.2015). New governance schemes for frontiers of land and water governance, World Water Congress, Edinburgh (UK). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (26.05.2015). The flooding game – Flood Retention in the light of economic theory, World Water Congress, Edinburgh (UK). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (26.05.2015). Floodland – explorations for flood retention and resilience on private land, Centre for Environmental Change & Human Resilience (CECHR), Dundee (UK). Invited guest lecture.
• Hartmann, Thomas (19.05.2015). Aktive Einbeziehung von Institutionen und Betroffenen beim Umgang mit Folgen des Klimawandels, ARL-Expertenworkshop „Vermittlung von und Umgang mit der Komplexität der Folgen des Klimawandels“, IREUS Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE). Invited input speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (26.02.2015). Legitimizing differentiated flood protection levels – Consequences of the European Flood Risk Management Plan, International Academic Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Volos (GR). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (24.02.2015). Property rights and climate change: land-use under changing environmental conditions, International Academic Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Volos (GR). Academic presentation.

2014

• Hartmann, Thomas (15.12.2014). Frontiers of land and water governance in urban areas, IWRA Webinar, Online. Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (10.06.2014). Moving from flood defence to water management, Baltic Regional Workshop on Natural Water Retention Measures (NWRM), Gimo (SE). Invited keynote speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (11.04.2014). Stedelijke herverkaveling – Vergelijking Nederland–Deutschland, Expert meeting (Dutch Cadastre) on land readjustment, Amersfoort (NL). Invited keynote speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (09.10.2014). Legitimacy in contemporary flood risk management, Workshop „Resilience“, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen (NL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (09.07.2014). What’s the right thing to protect – Justice and flood risk management, AESOP congress, Utrecht (NL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (13.02.2014). Implementing the flood risk management plan, Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Haifa (IL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (13.02.2014). Conditional property rights in planning – reflections on time and scale, Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Haifa (IL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (15.01.2014). Europäisches Hochwasserrisikomanagement und räumliche Planung, Institut für Humangeographie und Regionalforschung, Universität Wien, Wien (AT). Invited guest lecture.
• Hartmann, Thomas (08.01.2014). Comparing the Dutch and German land policy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (NL). Invited guest lecture.
• Hartmann, Thomas (08.04.2014). Die Rolle von Planungsrecht und Bodeneigentum bei der Entstehung von Lock-in-Situationen in der Raumplanung, Geographisches Institut, Universität Bern, Bern (CH). Invited guest lecture.

2013

• Hartmann, Thomas (07.11.2013). Modes of Governance for the European Flood Risk Management Plan, “Water and Planning – the Fluid Challenge”, The World Town Planning Day, Online Conference, Online. Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (31.10.2013). Modes of Governance in German and Dutch Water Law – The Framing of a Common Management of Water and Land, Conference “Water and Ocean Law in Times of Climate Change”, Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law, Utrecht (NL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (24.10.2013). Der Hochwasserrisikomanagementplan – Anforderungen und Konsequenzen zum Zusammenspiel von Raumplanung und Wasserwirtschaft, Kolloquium „Die Elbe im Spannungsfeld von Hochwasserschutz, Naturschutz & Schifffahrt“, Magdeburg (DE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (18.07.2013). Spatial water planning – Comparing German and Dutch water law, AESOP/ACSP Joint Congress 2013, Dublin (IE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (07.03.2013). Der Hochwasserrisikomanagementplan – Herausforderung für Wasserwirtschaft und Raumplanung, 36. Dresdner Wasserbaukolloquium, Dresden (DE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (13.02.2013). Dilemmas of public involvement in urban development: Comparing the Dutch and German approaches to land management, Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Portland (US). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (13.02.2013). Regulating resistance and resilience: Performance-based and condition-based water and planning legislation in Germany, Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Portland (US). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (10.06.2013). Using cultural theory to work with wicked problems in flood systems, Symposium “Wicked Problems”, Public Administration and Policy Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen (NL). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (07.05.2013). Räumliches Hochwasserrisikomanagement – Im Spannungsfeld von Raumplanung und Wasserwirtschaft, Geographisches Institut, FU Berlin, Berlin (DE). Invited guest lecture.

2012

• Hartmann, Thomas (20.09.2012). Managing riverside property in Germany, PlaNET conference “Europe Matters”, Nijmegen (NL). Invited keynote speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (16.11.2012). Lock-in situations in planning: The role of law and property rights, 10th meeting of the AESOP Thematic Group on Complexity & Planning, Groningen (NL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (09.02.2012). Planning by Law and Property Rights Reconsidered, Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Belfast (UK). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (09.02.2012). Participation in Planning Law – beyond municipal boundaries, Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Belfast (UK). Academic presentation.

2011

• Hartmann, Thomas (28.05.2011). Managing riverside property: the struggle between water managers and spatial planners, Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Edmonton (CA). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (27.05.2011). Planning by law and property rights: the need for a better theory, Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Edmonton (CA). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (25.03.2011). Bodenpolitik um den Flüssen Raum zu geben, Symposium „Wasser(politik) zwischen Privateigentum und Gemeingut“, Kassel (DE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (19.05.2011). Geo-risico governance, Plandag, Brüssel (BE). Academic presentation.

2010

• Hartmann, Thomas (18.11.2010). Verzwickte Flussgemeinschaft – Warum es so schwierig ist, den Flüssen Raum zu geben, Internationale Rheinkonferenz, Bonn (DE). Invited keynote speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (11.02.2010). Land Policy for Rivers – Responses to the German Flood Control Act, International Academic Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Dortmund (DE). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (03.05.2010). Brauchbare Flusslandschaften – Responsive Bodenpolitik für extreme Hochwasser, IWAR, Darmstadt (DE). Invited guest lecture.

2009

• Hartmann, Thomas (24.11.2009). Distributional Effects of Land Policy for Extreme Floods, APSA conference 2009, Ahmedabad (IN). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (16.07.2009). Clumsy Floodplains – responsive land policy for extreme floods, AESOP conference 2009, Liverpool (UK). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (13.02.2009). Clumsy Floodplains – towards a responsive land policy for extreme floods, International Academic Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, Aalborg (DK). Academic presentation.

2008

• Hartmann, Thomas (08.07.2008). Polyrational Land Policy for Extreme Floods – Large Areas for Temporary Emergency Retention, ACSP/AESOP Joint Congress, Chicago, IL (US). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (14.02.2008). Polyrational Land Policy for Extreme Floods, Planning Law and Property Rights Symposium 2008, Warszawa (PL). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (01.05.2008). Responsive Land Policy for Extreme Floods, Speaker Series ’08, Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool, Liverpool (UK). Invited guest lecture.

2007

• Hartmann, Thomas (13.07.2007). Making Land Available – Large Areas for Temporary Emergency Retention, AESOP Congress 2007, Naples (IT). Academic presentation.
• Hartmann, Thomas (07.02.2007). Large Areas for Temporary Emergency Retention, Inaugural Symposium on Planning, Law and Property Rights, Amsterdam (NL). Academic presentation.

2006

• Hartmann, Thomas (24.07.2006). Mobilization of Retention Areas – Strategies for the optimum mobilization of areas for retention of extreme flood events, AESOP PhD Workshop, Bristol (UK). Academic presentation.

2005

• Hartmann, Thomas (24.11.2005). Kommunikationsstrukturen zur Abstimmung räumlicher Planungen auf regionaler und kommunaler Ebene in Sachsen-Anhalt, ELLA Project Conference, Stendal (DE). Invited speaker.
• Hartmann, Thomas (07.06.2005). Strategien zur Abstimmung räumlicher Planungen im Hochwasserschutz, Institute for Water Management and Ecotechnology, Magdeburg (DE). Invited guest lecture.

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