The Impact of Land Use Change on Disaster Risk from the Perspective of Efficiency
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I have read with interest your paper titled The impact of land use change on disaster risk from the perspective of efficiency. I liked the approach taken, figures, and the decision to look at land use change. However, my question and suggestion is to reflect a bit more on how to measure such land use change. This is a big question in the literature, and I like how Peter Riad addressed it, by combining Landsat and GIS methods, for instance, which is similar to how you proceed for Taiwan.
The method should be better justified and please engage with similar methods too, show what is out there, and why you picked this. See for instance this very good paper, and discuss in your article how your work relates to it. I think this would be very important:
Riad, P., et al. (2020). Landscape transformation processes in two large and two small cities in Egypt and Jordan over the last five decades using remote sensing data. Landscape and Urban Planning, 197, 103766.
Bibliography should be not in alphabetical order, but following guidelines of endnote guidelines as per MDPI. Please fix (editorial team please advise).
Author Response
We have greatly appreciated the reviewers’ efforts. Comments and feedback were very constructive and able to improve the quality of the manuscript.
My Manuscript: sustainability-1142447
Article titled: "The impact of land use change on disaster risk from the perspective of efficiency"
The following is a summary of the reviewers' comments.
Suggestions:1. See for instance this very good paper, and discuss in your article how your work relates to it. I think this would be very important: Riad, P., et al. (2020). Landscape transformation processes in two large and two small cities in Egypt and Jordan over the last five decades using remote sensing data. Landscape and Urban Planning, 197, 103766.
Author reply:Thanks to the reviewer for recommending such a good article. The conclusion of the article can be used as the motivation for this research. We will add it on line 60-62.”The rapid increase in urban built-up areas puts pressure on the scarce land and water resources in the peri-urban fringes, thereby potentially leads to environmental pressure [9], which increases the production of disaster contributions. ”
Suggestions:2. Bibliography should be not in alphabetical order, but following guidelines of endnote guidelines as per MDPI. Please fix (editorial team please advise).
Author reply: We have made modifications according to the format requirements of the journal. Thanks for the reminder of the reviewer.
Reviewer 2 Report
Authors have presented a study on the impact of land use change on disaster risk from the perspective of efficiency. The manuscript is in general well written and results seem to be sound. I hereby recommend its further consideration for publication after the minor issue addressed.
1) In some of tables, columns are not aligned properly.
Author Response
We have greatly appreciated the reviewers’ efforts. Comments and feedback were very constructive and able to improve the quality of the manuscript.
My Manuscript: sustainability-1142447
Article titled: "The impact of land use change on disaster risk from the perspective of efficiency"
The following is a summary of the reviewers' comments.
Suggestions:1. In some of tables, columns are not aligned properly.
Author reply: Thanks for the reminder of the reviewer. We rechecked the format of the table and modified it.
Reviewer 3 Report
This is a well-written technical manuscript studying the resiliency of changing land-use in Taiwan. Technically, it is a regular analysis using available data. I agree with its conclusion: that changing land-use driven by economic factors destroys the resiliency of the land, and sets up the region for possible catastrophic reaction to unforeseen events. However, such changes can never be predicted, and the overall result of pushing a region towards a lack of resilience is not good planning.
I would change one word in the abstract "mankind" to "humankind".
My main recommendation is to supplement the very technical analysis of this paper, and anchor it to a more theoretical and broader approach. Otherwise, frankly, I see this paper's readership being limited to a very narrow group of people. And that would be a shame, because of the importance of the conclusions.
Let me let me suggest that the authors read the following general discussions of resilience, and perhaps they can add some text to their paper either at the beginning or towards the end, or both.
Michael W. Mehaffy, Nikos A. Salingaros, Design for a Living Planet.
https://applied.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/DFALP-online.html
Chapter 4. The Geometry of Resilience.
Michael Mehaffy, A New Pattern Language for Growing Regions.
Pattern 17.4. ECONOMIES OF PLACE AND DIFFERENTIATION
http://www.sustasis.net/ANPLFGR.pdf
Author Response
We have greatly appreciated the reviewers’ efforts. Comments and feedback were very constructive and able to improve the quality of the manuscript.
My Manuscript: sustainability-1142447
Article titled: "The impact of land use change on disaster risk from the perspective of efficiency"
The following is a summary of the reviewers' comments.
Suggestions:1 .I would change one word in the abstract "mankind" to "humankind".
Author reply:We adopted the reviewer's suggestions to make changes. Change "mankind" t to "humankind".
Suggestions:2. My main recommendation is to supplement the very technical analysis of this paper, and anchor it to a more theoretical and broader approach. Otherwise, frankly, I see this paper's readership being limited to a very narrow group of people. And that would be a shame, because of the importance of the conclusions.
Let me let me suggest that the authors read the following general discussions of resilience, and perhaps they can add some text to their paper either at the beginning or towards the end, or both.
Michael W. Mehaffy, Nikos A. Salingaros, Design for a Living Planet. https://applied.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/DFALP-online.html. Chapter 4. The Geometry of Resilience.
Michael Mehaffy, A New Pattern Language for Growing Regions. Pattern 17.4. ECONOMIES OF PLACE AND DIFFERENTIATION. http://www.sustasis.net/ANPLFGR.pdf
Author reply: Thanks to the reviewer for recommending such a good article.We added part of the content to the article according to the research needs of the article to enrich the completeness of the article, such as line 49-51, 66-68.
”Although land development has become inevitable, land development requires more resilient measures to avoid the increase in disasters [5].”
“Land use changes have obvious regional and cumulative characteristics. Land development will show different resilience and differences due to different conditions in the region [11]. ”
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Much better.
Author Response
We have greatly appreciated the reviewers’ efforts. We have modified the reference format of the article to meet the requirements of the journal.
My Manuscript: sustainability-1142447
Article titled: "The impact of land use change on disaster risk from the perspective of efficiency"
