Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

The gradual shift and continuity of green
infrastructure should be developed from
“green areas” to the “gray areas” of urban
centres covered with concrete.
Integration of this infrastructure into gray
areas will allow the development of missing
green spaces in urban centres.
The municipalities are suggested to use
unused urban areas for this purpose, by
creating green spaces to the benefit of the
environment and ecosystem, which will
serve to reduce infrastructural costs in the
sewerage network. These facilities will serve
to protect the territory from flooding as well as
to improve conditions for dealing with climate
change.
Suburban gardens, residential areas and
parking lots should be made available to the
development of this infrastructure, creating
the necessary network to bring the natural
ecosystem within the urban centres.
EP4- Risk management from natural
disasters
Raising the awareness of the population on
natural emergencies, under climate change
conditions, takes a special meaning in the
administration of the territories from local
units. Information should be accompanied by
maps of flood areas and areas of landslides
or other hazards. It is necessary to inform
residents on the measures to be taken in the
early hours. An increased focus in the annual
counselling, should be placed on schools
and rural areas, where life is more closely
associated with nature and public investments
may not be at the optimal required conditions.
Increased focus should be directed towards
informal settlements built on former
agricultural lands and near riverbeds,
natural landslide areas and areas identified
as danger areas near dams or tectonic
zones. Identification of high-risk houses
must be accompanied by displacement and
resettlement opportunities in safe territories,
providing soft loans or partnership schemes.
Areas of increased risk:
Floods
Increased risk from the presence of water basin
dams:
Gjepalaj, Xhafzotaj, Sukth, Katund i Ri, coastal
area, Breg Shkoze, Bubq, Gramez
Landslide
Areas with increased seismic presence:
Kryezi, Vrap, Dorez, Baldushk, Kuraten,
Shkrete, Cudhi-Zall
Table 4.30 Areas at risk
Civil emergencies at the national and local
level for the protection of the population,
should administer and manage territories
under a special financial budget for natural
hazards with a focus on the displacement of
the residents from risky areas. In the medium
and long term, the special financial budget
must ensure the construction of infrastructure
for social housing to cope with in cases of
natural hazards.
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