{"id":2377,"date":"2015-08-03T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T19:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2015-08-03T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T19:37:21","slug":"geographic-information-for-sustainable-development-tanzaniakenya-coastal-zone-change-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/geographic-information-for-sustainable-development-tanzaniakenya-coastal-zone-change-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographic Information for Sustainable Development &#8211; Tanzania\/Kenya Coastal Zone Change Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n<p>The Tanzania\/Kenya coastal zone project was one of four sites that were selected by the Global Information for Sustainable Development (GISD) initiative. The Tanzania\/Kenya project applied Landsat data and GIS technologies for coastal resource management. The objectives of the project included to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Analyze rates of resource and land use change over time over approximately 10 years: 1990 to 2000<\/li>\n<li>Answer key management questions about shoreline change,<br \/>mangrove and coastal forest change, and urban growth<\/li>\n<li>Build capacity for the use of science and spatial information in management<\/li>\n<li>Identify priority locations for coastal action planning and conservation<\/li>\n<li>Develop local-level coastal management action plans<\/li>\n<li>Plan monitoring strategies and assess effectiveness of resource management policies<\/li>\n<li>Delineate management boundaries and support appropriate development decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please click to examine the examples of land cover maps of the Rufiji District in <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2255\/Rufiji1990.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[2377]\">1990<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2255\/Rufiji2000.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[2377]\">2000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please click for the project <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2255\/YQWangASPRS2003.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Presentation<\/a>\u00a0and publications in <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2255\/CMG38292Proof.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Coastal Management<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2255\/MGD5864.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Geodesy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more details please contact:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:yqwang@uri.edu\">Dr. Y.Q. Wang<\/a>, Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Tobey@gso.uri.edu\">Dr. James Tobey, <\/a>The Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Makota65@yahoo.com\">Vedast Makota<\/a>, National Environment Management Council, Tanzania<\/p>\n<p><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>funded by USAID (2001-2003, Wang as a Co-PI)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":2378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ltrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}