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Biography

Ally Namangaya
Ally Namangaya
Dean School of Spatial Planning and Social Studies (SPSS)

Professor Namangaya is a School Dean and registered land use planner and a senior lecturer.  He holds a PhD in spatial planning, MSc in Urban and Regional planning and Management and BSc in Urban and Regional Planning. His areas of expertise are natural resources management, conflict management, geostatistical modelling, applied remote sensing, and geographical information systems, land use planning and socio-economic studies. Dr Ally has extensively published in peer reviewed journals in areas of natural resource conservation, urban planning and local economic development. His recent research is on linkages between urban spatial development and governance, economy and climate change resilience;

Linking rural communities in tourism value chains; development of spatial databases for revenue enhancement in urban areas and land tenure mapping for peripheral communities. Of recent Dr Ally is supervising PhD research project in areas of small town development and land conflict management. Dr Ally has participated in coordinating research project including an ongoing five-year research project on the quest for alternative urban planning models for small towns in Tanzania which was funded by SIDA. 

Contacts; Email:ally.namangaya@aru.ac.tznamangaya@yahoo.com Phone: +255754574743+255715574743