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Predicting the Unit Appraisal Value of the Unimproved and Private Land in the City of Houston by LEED Sustainable Site Credits
(2011-02-22)
The primary objectives of this research are to identify the relation between
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) criteria regarding sustainable
site credits and the appraised value of land parcels in the ...
The Influence of Coastal Wetlands on Hurricane Surge and Damage with Application to Planning under Climate Change
(2012-10-19)
Coastal storm surges from hurricanes are one of the most costly natural disasters in the United States (US). Current research arguably indicates a mean sea-level (MSL) increase due to global warming, as well as an increase ...
Forecasting Recovery Opportunities for the Red-cockaded Woodpecker on Private Lands in Eastern North Carolina Using a Spatial Model of Tree Age
(2014-11-21)
Currently, recovery efforts for the federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW; Picoides borealis) primarily occur on public lands throughout the Southeast, where proven management practices ensure availability of ...
Modeling the Dynamics of Desakota Regions: Global - Local Nexus in the Taipei Metropolitan Area
(2010-10-12)
Since the 1970s, Asia has experienced rapid urbanization processes, which are distinct from U.S. society, and the direction of Asian urbanization is more strongly affected by economic globalization. The desakota model, ...
PROBABILISTIC RISK MAPPING COUPLING BAYESIAN NETWORKS AND GIS, AND BAYESIAN MODEL CALIBRATION OF SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES.
(2017-12-14)
A spatial and causal probabilistic methodology is introduced for risk assessment based
on the coupling of a conceptual Bayesian Network (BN) model and GIS to generate risk
maps. The proposed integration of these spatial ...
Coupling of Backbarrier Shorelines to Geomorphological Processes
(2013-08-14)
Recent evidence suggests that backbarrier structure may act as an historical record of island development, and that backbarrier shorelines can be used as a proxy of an island’s past and future transgressive response to ...
Channel Dynamics in Alpine and Lowland Streams Across Spatial and Temporal Scales: Grand Mesa, Western Colorado and Brazos River, Central Texas
(2017-02-15)
Rivers and streams develop landform morphology in equilibrium with the flow of water and sediment through the channel. This dissertation examines features in fluvial systems with different geomorphic regimes; step-pool ...
The Development of an Economically Viable Biomass Feedstock Supply Chain to Meet the Renewable Fuel Standards
(2017-12-05)
This dissertation addresses the challenge to develop an economically viable biomass feedstock supply chain (SCh) that is able to provide feedstock under a range of operating conditions and meet the national renewable fuel ...
Flood-Proofing Communities with Land Use Planning and Design
(2016-04-08)
This dissertation evaluated how spatial patterns of pervious land cover moderate flood impacts in urban areas during an extreme rainfall event. First, it presented criteria to characterize hydrologic functions of natural ...
Region-based Dynamic Weighting Probabilistic Geocoding
(2014-07-30)
Geocoding has been a widely used technology in daily life and scientific research for at least four decades. Especially in scientific research, geocoding has been used as a generator of spatial data for further analysis. ...