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Sustainable Landscaping Plan to Increase Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at Villanova University.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sustainable Landscaping Plan to Increase Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at Villanova University./
Author:	Chan, Anna.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-08.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International82-08.
Subject:	Sustainability. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27956729
ISBN:	9798569912483

Sustainable Landscaping Plan to Increase Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at Villanova University.
Chan, Anna.

Sustainable Landscaping Plan to Increase Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at Villanova University. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 256 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-08.

Thesis (M.Sc.S.E.)--Villanova University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In the past half-billion years five mass extinctions have occurred each of which drastically reduced the diversity of life on earth. Now the earth is undergoing a sixth mass extinction and the cause of this extinction event is human activity. Thus far the majority of human activity has been increasing the rate of extinction and decreasing biodiversity, however, this means that human activity can also be used to decrease the rate of extinction and increase biodiversity. Villanova University has committed itself to a Sustainability plan that strives to meet the 17 United Nations Sustainability Goals. All of these goals are in some way tied to slowing the mass extinction, increasing biodiversity, and improving ecosystem services but the current campus landscape does not reflect these goals. To increase biodiversity and improve ecosystem services on the Villanova University campus a sustainable landscaping plan that changes landcover proportions, land use, and land maintenance must be developed, and a baseline biodiversity score must be determined. To accomplish this the biophysical characteristics. regionally and locally were assessed to determine the needs of the university and the feasibility of change. The principal results of this assessment showed that the university has a low Shannon's Index biodiversity score, .19 out of 1, on the campus core and a high percentage of ecologically unproductive areas, impervious surface and manicured lawn, which make up 72%. of the total campus area. Additionally, trends in temperature and rainfall indicate that both will be increasing in the future. The principal results from the analysis emphasized the major needs of the university and these needs shaped the goals and actions addressed in the sustainable landscaping plan. The sustainable landscaping plan was evaluated using the STEEP (Social, Technical, Environmental, Economic, Political) framework to emphasize its range of impacts on Villanova University.

ISBN: 9798569912483Subjects--Topical Terms:

1029978
Sustainability.
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Biodiversity

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