ENHANCING THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES WITHIN THE URBAN PUBLIC NODES IN SUPPORT OF REGENERATIVE URBAN BUILT ENVIRONMENTS IN TIRANA

Abstract

Ecosystem Service is a concept developed to expand our understanding of human use and the management of natural resources. ES are characterized as functions of ecosystems with importance for human well-being. Thus, the idea of ES, creates a relation between ES providers (the producers) and demanders for ES (the beneficiaries). These certain services always depend onto the extent of a problem they are linked to and the opportunity of transferring the service from where it is produced to the place where humans benefit from it. The main goal of research is to highlight the importance of ES within urban areas. To identify the potential zones (nodes) and show how much of its natural resources are evident, the amount of green spaces, how can these nodes be more safer and less polluted as they are and provide a solution on how to provide enough space for people to walk and to minimize as much as posibble the problems that the node and people are facing there. Some of the methods that were used on this research were case studies and two types of surveys, one online and the other one on the selected node (21 Dhjetori), conducting a site visit to provide then with a study area and other visual materials like photos from the area, CAD drawings and certain trusted webpages which provided with correct values of noise and air pollution on different areas in Tirana.