Researches on land use/cover change(LUCC) now are the frontier problems for discussion in the researches on the global environmental change. However, conducting case studies on LUCC in typical areas are one of the most important ways to understand global changes. Coastal zones have become the hot fields of LUCC because of their special sea and land ecosystem environment. In the paper, Jiangsu coast is selected as a typical area for case study. Taking the present land use map of 1987 and TMs of 1997 and 2006...