This requires instruments and processes in the legal (e.g. land-use plans, land readjustment instruments), economic (e.g. cost-benefit analyses, real estate valuation), economic (e.g. environmental impact assessment, impact/compensation regulation), and social (e.g. governance forms) area, which are connected using engineering and management methods.

The department is accordingly composed of an interdisciplinary team responsible for teaching and research. Organizationally, the department is included in the Faculty for Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt as a part of the Institute for Geodesy.