The influence of land use and land cover change on landslide susceptibility: a case study in Zhushan Town, Xuan'en County (Hubei, China)

• Published in: Natural hazards and earth system sciences Vol. 19; no. 10; pp. 2207 - 2228
• Main Authors: Chen, Lixia, Guo, Zizheng, Yin, Kunlong, Shrestha, Dhruba Pikha, Jin, Shikuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 10.10.2019; Copernicus Publications
• Subjects: Aerial photographs; Aerial photography; Aerial surveys; Agricultural land; Arable land; Case studies; China; Classification; Economic activities; Environmental aspects; Grasslands; Human engineering; Hydrologic analysis; Hydrological analysis; Hydrology; Image acquisition; Image classification; Infrastructure (Economics); Land cover; Land use; Land use controls; Land use management; Land use planning; Landslides; Mountain regions; Mountainous areas; Mountains; Regression analysis; Regression models; Remote sensing; Slope; Slopes; Spatial distribution; Surveys; Temperature; China; Hubei China

Land use and land cover change can increase or decrease landslide susceptibility (LS) in the mountainous areas. In the hilly and mountainous part of southwestern China, land use and land cover change (LUCC) has taken place in the last decades due to infrastructure development and rapid economic acti...