Data Repository for Unraveling a Vicious Cycle: Extreme Weather Events, Urban Expansion, and Deforestation

This repository provides the data underlying the analyses in Unraveling a Vicious Cycle: Extreme Weather Events, Urban Expansion, and Deforestation. It contains harmonized regional panel data used to examine the interrelations between drought and flood damages, urban expansion, and tree cover loss between 2001 and 2018. The compiled datasets integrate disaster records with geospatially aggregated indicators on land cover, population, nighttime lights, conflict, and climatic conditions. The repository is designed to facilitate reproducibility and to document the empirical basis of the study.
Data preparation, coding, and repository curation were carried out by Leonie Ratzke.