A mid-career academic with teaching, research, and consultancy expertise in Rural Development Planning and Urban planning and management. My skills include Geo-information analysis for managing urban and rural regions, innovative ways of dealing with urban development challenges such as informal settlements, traffic congestion, social service provision, governance of climate resilience, and flooding. Among them are governance of sustainability transitions, land value capture, land sharing, and institutional technologies for land reform and securing land rights, Rural resilience, etc.