Contemporary Landscape Performance Methods and Techniques

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Foreword by Barbara Deutsch

Preface by Galen Newman, Rui Zhu, Megan Barnes, and Dongying Li

Chapter 1. Defining and Explaining Landscape Performance

Megan Barnes, Rui Zhu, Galen Newman, and Zhihan Tao

Chapter 2. Landscape Performance Tools and Calculators: An Overview

Rui Zhu, Galen Newman, and Megan Barnes

Chapter 3. Houston Arboretum and Nature Center (HANC): Design, Implementation, and Issues

Conners Ladner, Beau Burris, Debbie Markey, Joseph James, Allyson Mendenhall, Galen Newman, Rui Zhu and Dongying Li

1. Environmental Benefits

Chapter 4. Environmental Benefits: Investigating Urban Heat Mitigation Through In-Situ Microclimate Measurements

Xiaoyu Li, Jiang Zheng, Jingxi Peng, Yue Zhang, Dongying Li and Galen Newman

Chapter 5. Environmental Benefits: Assessing Stormwater Runoff Contamination with Comparison Sampling

Zhihan Tao and Galen Newman

Chapter 6. Environmental Benefits: Assessing Annual Pollutant Load Using the L-THIA Model

Rui Zhu, Sara Prybutok, Zhenhang Cai, and Galen Newman

Chapter 7. Environmental Benefits: Methodological Overview for eBird, iNaturalist, GAP Data, and Wildlife Richness

Rui Zhu and Galen Newman

Chapter 8. Environmental Benefits: Evaluating Species Richness for Birds Using eBird and GAP Data

Rui Zhu and Galen Newman

Chapter 9. Environmental Benefits: Evaluating Species Richness for Mammals Using iNaturalist and GAP Data

Rui Zhu and Galen Newman

Chapter 10. Environmental Benefits: Evaluating Species Richness for Insects Using iNaturalist and GAP Data

Rui Zhu and Galen Newman

Chapter 11. Environmental Benefits: Evaluating Flora Species Richness Using Biodiversity Indexes

Rui Zhu and Galen Newman

Chapter 12. Environmental Benefits: Assessing Habitat Quality and Pollinator Benefits

Rui Zhu, Jiang Zheng, and Galen Newman

Chapter 13. Environmental Benefits: Assessing Material Reuse from Construction Documents

Rui Zhu, Zhihan Tao, and Galen Newman

2. Social Benefits

Chapter 14. Social Benefits: Assessing Accessibility Impact Using Census Data

Rui Zhu, Galen Newman, and Dongying Li

Chapter 15. Social Benefits: Spatiotemporal Visitor Characterization through SafeGraph Data Analysis

Xiaoyu Li, Yue Zhang, Dongying Li, Heng Cai and Hao Tian

Chapter 16. Social Benefits: Analyzing Visitor Motivations and Benefits Based on Retrospective and On-Site Surveys

Yue Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Jingxi Peng, and Dongying Li

Chapter 17. Social Benefits: Modeling Visitor Thermal Comfort in Various Park Zones with Heat Budget Calculations

Xiaoyu Li, Jingxi Peng, Yue Zhang, and Dongying Li

Chapter 18. Social Benefits: Capturing Real-Time Mental Health Conditions using Geographically Explicit Ecological Momentary Assessment

Dongying Li, Yue Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, and Jingxi Peng

3. Economic Benefits

Chapter 19. Economic Benefits: Assessing Property Tax Revenue through a Pre-Post Evaluation

Rui Zhu, Zhenhang Cai, and Galen Newman

Chapter 20. Economic Benefits: Assessing Property Value through a Pre-Post Evaluation

Rui Zhu, Zhihan Tao, and Galen Newman

Chapter 21. Economic Benefits: Evaluating Revenue Impacts with Financial Reports

Rui Zhu, Zhihan Tao, and Galen Newman

Chapter 22. Economic Benefits: Analyzing Seeding and Water Savings Across Scenarios

Rui Zhu and Galen Newman

4. The Future of Landscape Performance

Chapter 23. Moving Forward: Future Needs and Directions for Landscape Performance

Galen Newman, Rui Zhu, Megan Barnes, Dongying Li, and Zhihan Tao

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