Environmental Management and Sustainable Development ISSN 2164-7682 2024, Vol. 13, No. 1 http://emsd.macrothink.org 20 Spatio-temporal Landuse/Landcover Dynamics in the Coastal Areas of Limbe and Douala IV Municipalities and Implications on Wetland Regulating Ecosystem Services Aminkeng Lucienne Fuanyi (Corresponding author) Department of Geography, University of Buea, P.O Box 62, Cameroon Tel: 237-699-002-010 Email: lucienneaminkeng@gmail.com Tata Emmanuel Sunjo Department of Geography, University of Buea, P.O Box 62, Cameroon Balgah Sounders Department of Geography, University of Buea, P.O Box 62, Cameroon Received: September 26, 2023 Accepted: November 26, 2023 Published: January 5, 2023 doi:10.5296/emsd.v13i1.21589 URL: https://doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v13i1.21589 Abstract Globally, wetlands are ecological hot spots and as a result they supply a plethora provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural services. Despite their functions, wetlands continue to degrade arising from urban developments (population growth and housing developments, road infrastructural developments, urban agricultures and usage of wetlands as dumpsites). These activities operate via land use/land cover changes at different scales in different areas depending on technology and needs of the population. This paper describes the implications of spatio-temporal land use/ land cover (LULC) dynamics in the Limbe I and III Municipality (L1&3Ms) and Douala IV Municipality (D4M) coastal areas from 1986 to 2022 on wetland ecosystem services. This research made use of Geographic Information System (GIS) technique in describing the land use/cover changes in the study areas. Primary data was obtained through field observations, questionnaires and ground truthing aim at confirming the