Identifying landscape patterns at different scales as driving factors for urban flooding

• Published in: Ecological indicators Vol. 176; p. 113614
• Main Authors: Li, Yao, Osei, Frank Badu, Dai, Shaoqing, Hu, Tangao, Stein, Alfred
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2025; Elsevier
• Subjects: China; climate change; cohesion; data collection; Driving factor; flood control; hydrology; land use; Landscape composition and configuration; landscapes; principal component analysis; Scale effect; topography; Urban flooding; urbanization; China; Urban flooding; Driving factor; Landscape composition and configuration; Scale effect

•Fragmented and dispersed landscape patterns are more effective in reducing flood occurrences.•Landscape configuration plays a more crucial role in flood events than landscape composition.•Flood mitigation requires prioritizing certain planning factors at varying spatial scales.•We introduce a novel...