First National Documents on Spatial Planning in Albania

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Fig.8
Natural System
Diagrams
A. Emerald network
B. Proposed national parks
C. Natural corridors
A )
and the southeastern farthest regions of the country, thus increasing with a larger
access to the national network, e.g. ensuring progress in the national connecting
network proposed by the transmission lines toward Kosovo and Macedonia.
Strengthening the energy supply networks within the existing and proposed
harbors.
Strengthening the energy supply network supporting special employment
groups in relation to the demands in processing industrial areas, with special focus
on the areas foreseen as free economic zones.
A better integration between the electricity network in Southern Albania and
Southeastern Albania.
B )
Strategic Projects
TAP – completion of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline Project;
IAP – Ionian Adriatic Pipeline. It will cross the western part of Albania, from Fier
to Shkodër, towards Montenegro with two branches in Ulqin and Podgoricë. Gas
infrastructure;
IAP-Kosovo. IAP is branched off in the region of Shkodër - Lezhë, to supply
Kosovo through Kukës, building the Western Ring of the Balkans. (Western Balkan
Ring - WBR);
The polycentric development of Albania suggests the gasification for the six main
economic national poles, a strategic project, which has started to be implemented
with the Drafting of the Gas Masterplan, initiated by the Ministry of Energy and
Industry.
1.9 Natural System
The land usage as a result of growth and development simultaneously, causes the
constant loss of vacant spaces along with their functions, in support of the natural
ecosystems and climate protection, recreation, and their economic capacity functions
for forestry and agriculture, production of renewable energy, and protection of
the underground sources of the relevant areas. Within the <strong>National</strong> Spatial Plan,
the environment is not a surface area protected by human activity, but an asset
safeguarded for the people and the sustainable economic development.
C )
The sustainable development of the natural system is an NSP major objective.
This objective aims to be achieved through the following policies:
ʧ Increase of national responsibility for the present and future generations,
combining the concepts of sustainability and proper administration of natural
assets;
ʧ Protection and enlargement of the protected natural areas; creation of a
sustainable and communicative environmental system;
ʧ Enhancement of the environment’s role in the national economic growth;
integration of the natural system in the economic value of development sectors;
ʧ Enhancement of the environment’s role in the quality of urban life through the
promotion and creation of proper access to the natural areas.
Furthermore, a proposal is made for the Emerald network to be added to the protected
areas network. As a whole, it represents a network where ecosystems, habitats,
types, landscapes and other natural features of pan-European importance will be