🚨 PhD paper alert 🤓
I'm very happy to share our new paper (part of my PhD at INPE) about the use of LULC/LUCC in landslide susceptibility studies. We combined bibliometrics and traditional review approaches and highlighted some future challenges.
We were guided by the idea that "considering that landslides will occur under the same conditions as past landslides might represent a limited vision, as hillslope conditions change drastically in response to human activities".
https://lnkd.in/dtushed9
Land use and land cover as a conditioning factor in landslide susceptibility: a literature review - Landslides
Landslide occurrence has become increasingly influenced by human activities. Accordingly, changing land use and land cover (LULC) is an important conditioning factor in landslide susceptibility models. We present a bibliometric analysis and review of how LULC was explored in the context of landslide susceptibility in 536 scientific articles from 2001 to 2020. The pattern of publications and citations reveals that most articles hardly focus on the relationship between LULC and landslides despite a growing interest in this topic. Most research outputs came from Asian countries (some of which are frequently affected by landslides), and mostly with prominent international collaboration. We recognised three major research themes regarding the characteristics of LULC data, different simulated scenarios of LULC changes, and the role of future scenarios for both LULC and landslide susceptibility. The most frequently studied LULC classes included roads, soils (in the broadest sense), and forests, often to approximate the negative impacts of expanding infrastructure, deforestation, or major land use changes involving agricultural practice. We highlight several articles concerned primarily with current practice and future scenarios of changing land use in the context of landslides. The relevance of LULC in landslide susceptibility analysis is growing slowly, though with much potential to be explored for future LULC scenario analysis and to close gaps in many study areas.
