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Land Use/Land Cover Change Module:
Cases of Coastal Zone Change from Mesoamerica
Lead Author and ESSE21 PI: Robert Ford, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California
The concepts, tools and methods for using remotely-sensed data to analyze change in land use and land cover are applied to tropical coastal zone management in Mesoamerica with a focus on Honduras. Learners can imagine themselves in the roles of land managers, policy-makers and local community members as they use their analysis to grapple with decisions about improving livelihoods and protecting the environment. Mmembers of project on tropical coastal zone management cruise in the at Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge in Honduras
 Tropical coastal zone management project members cruise the Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge in Honduras
Land Use/Land Cover Change
This module provides an integrated look at the concepts, tools, and methods for doing land use / land cover (LULC) change detection analysis in remote sensing, using real case studies in tropical coastal zone management. It builds on the latest concepts and methodologies for LULC analysis employed by the Food and Agriculture Organization ’s GLCN-LCTC network, the leaders in the field. It includes an exciting element of exploration of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots.
This module asks students to go beyond the “how” of change detection to consider the “why” of driving forces and human dimensions of global change. Students use the case studies to imagine themselves as land managers, policy-makers and local community members who make decisions on improving livelihoods and protecting the environment. This module challenges students to see links between LULC changes in the case studies and other locales, including their own, and provokes an exploration of the ethical and value dimensions of global change and how we live our lives.
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Related Links
 Land Use/Land Cover Change: Cases of Coastal Zone Change
Robert E. Ford, Loma Linda University; Sally Westmoreland, Aditya Agrawal, Paul Burgess, University of Redlands; Miriam Cope, Jodye Selco, California State University, Pomona
A learning module to go beyond the "how" of doing image processing and change detection, asking students to look at the "why" and what are the "driving forces" or human dimensions of global change?
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