Ratzke et al. (2026) Data Repository for Unraveling a Vicious Cycle: Extreme Weather Events, Urban Expansion, and Deforestation

Identification

• Journal: Mendeley Data
• Year: 2026
• Date: 2026-04-06
• Authors: Leonie Ratzke, Melanie Krause, Sebastian Sippel
• DOI: 10.17632/jvtchctg46.1

Research Groups

• Leonie Ratzke (Leipzig University)
• Melanie Krause (Leipzig University)
• Sebastian Sippel (Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut)
• Leipzig University, Saxony, Leipzig
• Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Lower Saxony, Braunschweig

Short Summary

This data repository provides harmonized regional panel data to examine the interrelations between extreme weather events (drought, flood), urban expansion, and tree cover loss from 2001 to 2018, facilitating reproducibility of the underlying study.

Objective

• To provide a comprehensive, harmonized, and reproducible dataset for analyzing the interrelations between drought and flood damages, urban expansion, and tree cover loss.

Study Configuration

• Spatial Scale: Regional panel data, geospatially aggregated indicators.
• Temporal Scale: 2001 to 2018.

Methodology and Data

• Models used: Simultaneous Equation Model (implied by categories, used in the underlying study).
• Data sources: Disaster records, geospatially aggregated indicators on land cover, population, nighttime lights, conflict, and climatic conditions.

Main Results

• This entry describes a data repository and does not present the main results of the underlying study. It provides the empirical basis for analyses on the interrelations between extreme weather events, urban expansion, and deforestation.

Contributions

• Provides a harmonized and comprehensive regional panel dataset for studying the complex interrelations between extreme weather events, urban expansion, and deforestation.
• Designed to facilitate the reproducibility of the analyses presented in the associated scientific paper.
• Documents the empirical basis for the study, integrating diverse geospatial and disaster-related indicators.

Funding

• Saxon State Ministry for Science and the Arts, Dresden (Grant ID: 3-7304/44/4-2023/8846)

Citation

@article{Ratzke2026Data,
  author = {Ratzke, Leonie and Krause, Melanie and Sippel, Sebastian},
  title = {Data Repository for Unraveling a Vicious Cycle: Extreme Weather Events, Urban Expansion, and Deforestation},
  journal = {Mendeley Data},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.17632/jvtchctg46.1},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.17632/jvtchctg46.1}
}