Virginia Tech
Strategic Concessions: Negotiating Human Land Use to Serve the Habitat Needs of the Eastern Meadowlark
Abstract
dc:description.abstractOur civilization is facing increased populations and scarcity of habitat for a variety of species. Encroaching on these landscapes while engaging in habitat fragmentation and destruction, has negatively impacted biodiversity and subsequently put thousands of species at risk of going extinct. With humans causing peril for various species via habitat losses and degradation due to our developing of landscapes, as Landscape Architects, we have a responsibility to minimize, negate, or rectify these losses and while still providing serviceable landscapes for our fellow humans. One possible avenue to pursue when motives for the well being of the collective are being considered is designing landscapes that serve both human and species in unison, with services being provided for humans and satisfying the needs of wildlife. This project is based on a desire to accommodate the needs of a growing community by providing a stormwater retainment system serving as a pedestrian artery to a historic river, while also accommodating the needs of wildlife by establishing a constructed meadow that satisfies habitat requirements for the Eastern Meadowlark. Through analysis of storm water volumes, building code setbacks regarding waterways, habitat requirements of the Eastern Meadowlark and land volume manipulation, a solution to many obstacles facing community and species has been posited in this project: the Dianna Dayle River Walk.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Landscape Architecture
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Landscape Architecture
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Landscape Architecture
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2018
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hagstrom, Richard Evan
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Kelsch, Paul J.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- McSherry, Laurel
- Heavers, Nathan
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- vt_gsexam:13345
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/81912