The Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management Masters Programme is an interdisciplinary, research-oriented, but also application-oriented graduate programme. The programme is focused on the combination of spatial and natural sciences with socioeconomic and planning knowledge as well as their implementation in practice and research.   
The Masters Programme is based on long standing expertise, using research and teaching experiences and knowledge in the fields of environmental and spatial sciences at the Technische Universität Dresden and its cooperating research institutions. 

Departments involved
All the departments of the Faculty of Forest, Geo, and Hydro Sciences are involved in the multi-departmental Masters Programme. The course is supplemented by contributions from the Faculties of Architecture and Transport Sciences.
Furthermore, leading non-university research institutions in spatial sciences at national, European, and international levels such as the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig are involved in the teaching activities. This makes it possible to offer inter­disciplinary university training where spatial sciences interface with environmental sciences in a way that is equalled nowhere else in Germany.

Objectives and subjects of the course
Using an interdisciplinary approach, postgraduate students will learn to analyse, deal with, and solve issues and problems involving spatial development and the natural resource management. Having the necessary basic and detail knowledge, they are able to transfer the principles from examples and apply them to new problem complexes.


The Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management Masters Programme deals with:

• The problems of sustainable and ecologically-oriented urban and spatial development and their solutions,

• Natural and disturbed ecosystems, the protection and regeneration of environmental media and genetic resources, and

• The acquisition of method skills (e.g. geoinformatics and remote sensing).

Problems and approaches are examined not solely in a German context, but a range of European and inter­national issues are taken into account.