Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

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Strengths
- lack of infrastructure for the collection, storage, marketing and sale of agricultural products;
- lack of investments in agricultural technologies and of an image for the marketing of local
products;
- degradation of the landscape and environment due to unplanned constructions;
- erosion along rivers and hilly areas;
- discharge of untreated waste into the rivers Erzen and Ishem;
- Wlimited and Weaknesses
unconsolidated waste recycling;
- levels of PM10 and PM2.5 in the air above the EU norms;
- lack of urban waste water treatment plants;
- lack of the economic cluster.
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Opportunities
Strengths
- satellite towns as residential and employment alternatives (Vora/Shijak/Sukth);
- economic potential and capacity for the formation of economic clusters;
- opportunities for the development of creative industries;
- opportunities for the development of the logistics cluster and light industry;
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Threats
continuous Weaknesses
education for professional growth;
- better combination of all modes of transport;
- improvement of the logistics networks;
- integration between the protection of cultural heritage and the promotion of cultural tourism;
- promotion of cultural heritage, traditions, customs, handicrafts, gastronomy, festivities, folklore, etc.;
- development and promotion of a combined cultural-natural-coastal tourism;
- awareness of the private sector to cooperate and invest in the supporting infrastructure;
- opportunities O Opportunities
for the creation of regional recreational spaces;
- opportunities for the creation of regional parks.
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Threats
- seasonal population in certain areas, especially congestion during the summer;
- the current road network is inadequate to meet future traffic that may result in traffic jamming;
- increase of the number of individual cars in high percentage each year;
- failure to improve road safety and minimize air pollution caused by traffic;
- failure to improve public transport (in quality and quantity);
- abandonment of rail transport;
- damages to cultural monuments by man, by time and economic inability to intervene;
- migration of the population from peripheral areas towards Tirana and Durres, as a consequence of
which historic settlements are abandoned and the immovable cultural heritage is endangered;
- failure to coordinate the urban and rural development;
- contamination of the agricultural land due to urban activities with long-term and harmful
consequences to health;
- risk of contamination of groundwater;
- risk of flooding;
- risk of damage to the vegetation cover;
- degradation of the landscape and the environment;
- lack of quality certification of products.
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