ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a case study that presents the activity of land cover monitoring of Dar es Salaam, in the frame of the Adapting to Climate Change (ACC) Dar Project. The ACC Dar project aimed at improving the effectiveness of municipal initiatives in Dar es Salaam to support coastal peri-urban dwellers, who are partially or totally dependent on natural resources, in adapting to climate change impacts. In particular, one of the ACC Dar activities was the development of a methodology for land cover monitoring in order to understand land cover change drivers in the Dar es Salaam region, with special attention to peri-urban development within the coastal plain. The ACC Dar project had the specific goals of: developing a methodology for the monitoring of urban sprawl, analysing urban development and land cover change, investigating the relationships between urban sprawl and population growth.
