Browsing by Author "Li, Ming-Han"
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Khanna, Sumee (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This thesis presents a study made on erosion control blankets with respect to their aging and longevity. Erosion control blankets have been relied upon increasingly in recent times replacing the old and traditional methods ...
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Lee, Jae Su (2011-02-22)How do land use characteristics affect individual and household travel behavior in a regional context? Can the investigation justify the land use policies to reduce automobile dependence and achieve the goals of sustainable ...
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Israel Devadason, Benjamin Praisy (2009-05-15)Bridge scour, which is the removal of bed materials from near the bridge foundations, is observed to be the most predominant cause of bridge failures in the United States. Scour in cohesive soils is greatly different from ...
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Yang, Bo; Li, Ming-Han; Li, Shujuan (MDPI, 2013-10-28)Since the early 1970s, Ian McHarg’s design-with-nature concept has been inspiring landscape architects, community and regional planners, and liked-minded professionals to create designs that take advantage of ecosystem ...
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Yang, Bo (2010-10-12)The Woodlands, Texas, is a 27,000-acre new town created with Ian McHarg's ecohydrological planning approach. The Woodlands is the best example of ecologically based new town planning in the United States during the 1970s. ...
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Luo, Yi (2014-11-26)Landscape performance is a newly initiated effort to evaluate the outcomes of landscape solutions in constructed projects. Built upon the sustainability triad, the outcomes landscape performance attempts to measure consists ...
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Atoba, Kayode Olugbenga (2018-05-04)As property losses from flooding continue to rise in coastal communities, the need to examine the changing dynamics of these damages in relation to specialized mitigation methods at multiple scales becomes increasingly ...
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Sung, Chan Yong (2011-08-08)In this study, I examined the effect of watershed urbanization on the invasion of alien woody species in riparian forests. This study was conducted in three major steps: 1) estimating the degree of watershed urbanization ...
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Sohn, Won Min (2019-05-15)Low impact development (LID) and green infrastructure have been increasingly practiced since their emergence in the 1990s. The hydrological benefits of these stormwater management techniques have been extensively studied ...
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Kim, Hyun Woo (2015-11-17)This study begins with a systematic evaluation of the quality of 76 local plans within the Chesapeake Bay watershed in order to better understand whether local jurisdictions have thoroughly integrated the concepts of ...
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Tu, Min-cheng (2014-12-16)For TSS, TN, and TP, this study examined the relationship between BMP pollutant removal efficiency and environmental factors such as ratio of BMP/catchment area, dominant land use, ratio of the dominant land use/catchment ...
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Meier, Megan Driskill (2009-05-15)Rapid urban growth of Austin, Texas, has resulted in significant alteration of the surface characteristics of the Colorado River Watershed. These changes have increased the runoff and accelerated erosion of the banks of ...
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Lee, Hye Kyung (2015-12-07)As rapid urban development with its concomitant conversion of open space and added imperviousness increases the potential for adverse hazard impacts, the possible benefits of green infrastructure as a tool for hazard ...
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Yi, Young-Jae (2012-10-19)Increasing concerns about climate change have attracted global interests in reducing auto travel. Regional average vehicle miles traveled (VMT) vary across the urbanized areas in the U.S., suggesting a potential influence ...
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Ramani, Tara Lakshmi (2017-01-13)This study explores how the concept of sustainable transportation relates other broad and overarching concepts that have emerged recently in the transportation sector, such as livability, health, and resilience. This study ...