1. Sustainable Management of Scarce Resources in the Coastal Zone Abu Kir Bay, Alexandria M. El Raey; Samir Nasr and Omran Frihy

2. Site Location

4. Resources Physical Tourism, Land and underwater Archeology, ecotourism Agricultural, Food and fisheries International road Natural gas and Industrial harbor

5. An over view

7. Wide Beach and Backshore Zone

8. Low resolution classified image

9. Problems 1.Shortage of services for residential areas 2.Lack of institutional capability for monitoring and pollution control 3.Shortage of urban services, solid waste management and wastewater treatment and disposal facilities 4.Estuarine Sedimentation 5.Low awareness among population and local decision makers 6.High unemployment rates 7.Interference of land use 8.Marine industrial pollution 9.Water logging and water bogging 10.Fertile Soil removal 11.Climate change 12.Radioactive sediments

10. An overview of Abu Kir Bay and Lake Idku sediments and land units

11. Problems of Coastal Erosion

12. Multi-temporal Images of Rosetta Promontory

13. Rosetta sea wall

14. Soil removal ( sand dune quarries)

15. Soil removal

16. Lake Idku

18. Approach Planning an ICZM program through: 1.Monitoring by remote sensing and ground based techniques and identifying hot pollution spots. 2.Identifying and assessing changes in the area by high resolution imageries 3.Building and analysis of a GIS for the region (topography, layers of vegetation and types, wetland, aquaculture, archeology, residential, industrial installations, land based pollution sources…) 4.Putting forward an integrated coastal zone management plan for development and identifying suitable areas for tourism projects. 5.Carrying out a strategic environmental assessment of the plan. 6.Promoting and communicating the study as a pilot study that can be replicated at other similar areas along the coast.