Browsing by Subject "land use"
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The effectiveness of jobs-housing balance as a strategy for reducing traffic congestion: a study of metropolitan Bangkok
(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Bangkok is widely known for its severe traffic congestion. The Thai government advocates the concept of jobs and housing balance (JHB) as a strategy for reducing traffic congestion in Metropolitan Bangkok. The basic idea ... -
Examination of the Spatial Relationship between Development Metrics and Total Phosphorus in the Galveston Bay Estuary
(2016-06-01)Urban development can cause increased nutrient loads in nearby streams and rivers. Understanding how the pattern of urban development affects the level of nutrients, specifically phosphorus, within the Galveston Bay Estuary ... -
Examining the Impact of Built Environment on Flood Losses in Seoul, Korea
(2016-08-04)Floods have been the costliest and most disruptive among all natural hazards worldwide. In particular, urban flooding continues to be a concern for both developed and developing countries. Increasing physical risk associated ... -
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 ... -
Future Flooding in Houston: Modeling the Impacts of Climate and Land Cover Change on Hydrology in the Buffalo-San Jacinto Watershed
(2013-02-04)Understanding the hydrology of a watershed is essential for both water resource management and public safety, especially flood prevention and mitigation. Both climate change and urbanization have been shown to increase ... -
Hydrologic Impacts of Climate and Land Use Changes in the West Fork San Jacinto River of Texas
(2018-07-03)Changes to climate and land use/land cover (LULC) are expected to be a source of uncertainty to streamflows in the Gulf Coastal Plains of Texas. Additionally, the city of Houston, Texas, is expected to experience spreading ... -
Hydrologic Impacts of Climate and Land Use Changes in the West Fork San Jacinto River of Texas
(2018-07-03)Changes to climate and land use/land cover (LULC) are expected to be a source of uncertainty to streamflows in the Gulf Coastal Plains of Texas. Additionally, the city of Houston, Texas, is expected to experience spreading ... -
Land Resource Areas of Texas.
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Runoff characteristics and the influence of land cover in drylands of western Texas
(2009-06-02)In dryland regions, where water is a limited resource, land use/land cover has undergone and continues to undergo significant change mainly due to human activities. The nature of runoff from dryland regions and the influence ... -
Shrink-Swell Dynamics of Vertisol Catenae under Different Land Uses
(2012-02-14)Because of the dynamic nature of shrinking and swelling of soils that are classified as Vertisols, partitioning of rainfall into infiltration and runoff in a Vertic watershed is more temporally and spatially unique than ... -
Systematic Variability of Soil Hydraulic Conductivity Across Three Vertisol Catenas
(2011-10-21)Soil hydraulic properties, such as saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks), have high spatial variation, but little is known about how to vary a few measurements of Ks over an area to model hydrology in a watershed with ... -
Three Essays on Climate Change Adaptation and Impacts: Econometric Investigations
(2015-10-27)Climate change, biofuels, agricultural policies and other factors may well be changing farmer decisions and extreme events like wildfires. We use discrete choice models to examine how climate is influencing decisions on ... -
Three Essays on U.S. Agriculture under Climate Change: Active Engagement in Mitigation and Adaptation
(2012-02-14)This dissertation investigates: (1) the implications of including high-yielding energy sorghum under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2) program; (2) the effects of RFS2 with and without projected climate change scenarios ...