Artan Hysa

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• PhD
• Marie Curie-Sklodowska Fellow [MSCA] Alumni at Technical University of Munich

The waterfront connects aquatic and terrestrial habitats, and its landscape quality is an indicator of the status of blue-green infrastructure. Especially in urban areas, the consequences of direct human interventions on the waterfront are evident, yet there is a need for more comprehensive and easy approaches to quantify the dynamics of the waterf...

Ecosystem services (ES) are essential to sustainable development at multiple spatial scales. Monitoring ES potential (ESP) at the metropolitan level is imperative to sustainable cities. We developed a procedure for long-term monitoring of metropolitan ESP dynamics, utilizing open-source land use land cover (LULC) data and the expert matrix method....

The major event that hit Europe in summer 2021 reminds society that floods are recurrent and among the costliest and deadliest natural hazards. The long-term flood risk management (FRM) efforts preferring sole technical measures to prevent and mitigate floods have shown to be not sufficiently effective and sensitive to the environment. Nature-Based...

The main objective of this study is to push forward a rapid and cost-free method for forest fire proneness assessment within the wildland urban interface (WUI) for developing metropolitan areas. It compares between the forest surfaces within two capital regions from the Western Balkans (WB), namely Sarajevo and Tirana. This study follows a multi-cr...

This study introduces the Transversal Connectivity Index (TCI) as an ecological indicator for classifying the natural landscape patches by their effective transversal connectivity to the water surfaces. The method applies specifically to urban areas at which the quality of blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is of fundamental importance in reducing the...

Urban watercourses are vital natural elements within cities that can provide multiple ecosystem services to society. However, rivers are under continuous urbanization pressures in developing urban areas like the post-socialist countries. We focus on the Western Balkans (WB) countries to assess the relationship between the urban rivers and the respe...

Post-socialist urban development in the Albanian capital, Tirana, is characterized by unplanned urbanization that led to the loss of the city's historical fabric. This study focuses on a historic neighbourhood of Tirana affected by urban transformation. It defines housing as the predominant function that has influenced the morphology of the neighbo...

This study examines the relationship between place attachment and privacy within residential complexes, a typical multifamily housing form in post-socialist Tirana, characterized by dense mid/high-rise apartment blocks which drive discourse on the issue of privacy. Departing from this context this study aims to reveal the role of privacy in residen...

The Kashmir Himalayas, a region of immense ecological importance, have experienced profound degradation by land-use changes, raising concerns about sustainability. This degradation carries significant global implications, including carbon loss, soil quality deterioration, habitat destruction, and loss of biodiversity. This study investigates variou...

Connectivity between terrestrial and aquatic systems is a prerequisite of effective blue-green infrastructure (BGI). Anthropocentric human activities including the transportation network are the main reasons behind BGI fragmentation. Yet, identifying and mitigating this fragmentation is possible. In this study we aim to assess the current situation...

The waterfront connects aquatic and terrestrial habitats, and its landscape quality is an indicator of the status of blue-green infrastructure. Especially in urban areas, the consequences of direct human interventions on the waterfront are evident, yet there is a need for more comprehensive and easy approaches to quantify the dynamics of the waterf...

In light of population growth and climate change, groundwater is one of the most important water resources globally. Groundwater is crucial for sustaining many vital sectors in Syria, including industrial and agricultural sectors. However, groundwater exploitation has significantly escalated to meet different water needs especially in the postwar p...

Purpose Particle size distribution (PSD) assessment, which affects all physical, chemical, biological, mineralogical, and geological properties of soil, is crucial for maintaining soil sustainability. It plays a vital role in ensuring appropriate land use, fertilizer management, crop selection, and conservation practices, especially in fragile soil...

A poster describing current status on the work of the European urban tree inventory. It shows that there is high species richness in urban trees in Europe. Once cleaned, this collection of urban tree inventories will be a valuable source of information for urban ecology on a European scale.

The port of Tangier Med is essential due to its strategic location, as it is an important trading center linking Europe, North America, and Africa. However, the increased rates of downstream sediment transportation put pressure on the sustainable future of the port. Thus, assessing the existing erosion rates and future improvement scenarios is impe...

The main objective of this study is to assess the wildfire spreading capacity of the vegetated surfaces within the inter-metropolitan area in northwestern Türkiye. The study utilizes the WSCI model recently adapted for the WUI scale. The model considers 16 criteria about the anthropogenic, geophysical, fuel, and hydro-meteorological factors. All an...

Urban sprawl is exceedingly affecting biodiversity loss and landscape fragmentation (LF). The most significant elements of land-use that indicate landscape fragmentation are the transportation network and urban area. This study aims to evaluate the LF caused by transportation networks in metropolitan areas, with a simulating approach to identify...

The landscape change is harsher in regions of remarkable touristic interest, like the Mediterranean coast. In this study, we bring evidence from the Albanian coastal zone. We utilize the pan-European land use land cover data of the coastal zone (CZ-LULC) provided by the European Environment Agency. CZ-LULCincludes all land surfaces within 10km from...

Although the word landscape is widely used in the Albanian language today, its origin traces back to Latin roots, making its integration into our everyday vocabulary a relatively recent phenomenon. It is unclear when or how this word entered the Albanian language for the first time. However, in the period between the two world wars, the word landsc...

The origin of landscape architecture educational programs dates back to the 19th century, when courses incorporating principles of ornamental planting and the art of laying out gardens and pleasure grounds were offered in different horticulture programs. Already, in the second century of its existence, landscape architecture has to face quite diffe...

Connectivity among blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is a vital condition for enhanced ecosystem services provision in metropolitan regions where the social-ecological systems are interwoven. In this study, we conduct a comparative spatial assessment of transversal connectivity of natural surfaces to freshwater sources for the metropolitan areas of B...

The main goal of TransConnECT is to prove the indispensability of transversal connectivity for an enhanced multi-functional blue-green infrastructure (BGI) in metropolitan areas. Thus, the freshwater surfaces become not only vital urban biodiversity hubs but also components of nature-based flood management systems. TransConnECT aims to achieve an E...

Slope failures and landslides cause economic damage and deaths worldwide. These losses can be minimized by integrating different methodologies, instruments, and data monitoring to predict future landslides. In the constantly growing metropolitan area of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, changes in land cover, land use, and build-up areas are an issue. The unpr...

Human-caused landscape transformation represents a danger to conserving the Earth’s natural habitats. Landscape fragmentation (LF) caused by transportation infrastructure and urban development poses a threat to human and environmental health by increasing traffic noise and pollution, reducing the size and viability of wildlife populations, facilita...

This paper presents the experience during the graduate course Studio of geospatial analysis and landscape design (SGALD) as an example of tested cross-scale teaching methods in landscape architecture. The course is delivered within the professional master program in landscape architecture at Agricultural University of Tirana (AUT). As the enrolled...

This study aims to assess the transversal relationship of urban river to the metropolitan areas along the watercourse. A GIS-based novel method was developed for extracting the information of Land use land cover (LULC) in both sides along the river. The QGIS software and Urban Atlas LULC (2012) geospatial data were used. The analysis was made withi...

Water bodies, especially those artificial, have great potential to deploy more photovoltaic (PV) systems. Deployment of PV systems on water bodies has twofold benefits, reducing water losses due to evaporation and higher energy yield due to the cooling effect of the water. Albania has more than 800 artificial lakes built mainly for irrigation purpo...

This study brings a rapid method to utilize the available open-source geospatial data in assessing the pedestrian accessibility to key public services/facilities. At this stage, we are testing the method in the case of Tirana, the capital city of Albania. Yet, the method is reproducible to other metropolitan areas around the world. Open street map...

The endemic vegetation on serpentine soils is remarkably diverse and usually of low productivity and recovers slowly after major disturbances like wildfires and subsequent runoff, erosion, and landslides. Climate change and anthropogenic factors may increase the vulnerability of these ecosystems to disturbances with social and ecological consequenc...

Post-socialist countries have experienced accelerated urban expansion trends during the last three decades. Tirana, the capital city of Albania, has expanded dramatically through unsupervised urban sprawl processes. This trend manifested with the expansion of the artificial surfaces towards the urban-wildland interface at the expense of agricultura...

This is a vector GIS data shapefile (and the related raw data) that delivers the indexing of vegetated surfaces in Albania by their wildfire spreading capacity index (WSCI). WSCI relies on a multi-criteria approach in assessing wildfire risk, which considers the anthropogenic, climatic, geophysical, and fuel properties of the study area. The data i...

The remaining wild watercourses in Europe are threatened by the hydropower plants (HP) as a consequence of the increasing energy demand. In developing countries like the Western Balkans, HP are considered the most comfortable energy investment that have been extensively implemented in the past. However, the social- ecological adverse consequences o...

Post-socialist countries have experienced accelerated urban expansion trends during the last three decades. Tirana, the capital city of Albania, has expanded dramatically through unsupervised urban sprawl processes. This trend gave floor to the expansion of the artificial surfaces towards the wildland urban interface, in expanse of agricultural and...

The extent of wildfires cannot be easily mapped using field-based methods in areas with complex topography, and in those areas the use of remote sensing is an alternative. This study first obtained images from the Sentinel-2 satellites for the period 2015–2020 with the objective of applying multi-temporal spectral indices to assess areas burned in...

This report presents the research-based learning [RBL] process as experienced during Fall semester 2020-2021 within the scope of the graduate course, Arch415- Landscape Research, being conducted in the Department of Architecture at Epoka University. RBL is adopted as a sustainable approach in learning, which aims far beyond knowledge gain. In this...

This study focuses on the wetlands found in the Western Balkans countries (WBC- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia). We rely on CORINE Land Cover (CLC) data, which deliver geospatial information about both inland and coastal wetlands (inland marshes, peatbogs, salt marshes, salines, and intertidal flats...

This study focuses on the wetlands found in the Western Balkans countries (WBC- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia). We rely on CORINE Land Cover (CLC) data, which deliver geospatial information about both inland and coastal wetlands (inland marshes, peatbogs, salt marshes, salines, and intertidal flats...

The use of multifunctional green infrastructure to promote human health and welfare is currently a trend in urban space planning. Knowledge of green spaces is essential for maintaining sustainable and healthy ecosystem development. Despite the rapid expansion of research in this area, much remains to be done. The WHO underlines that more research i...

Albania inherits a diversity of unique natural and cultural landscapes of international importance. Unfortunately, the development programs related to urbanization, infrastructure and energy investments generate significant pressures on the native quality of these landscapes. This chapter discusses further the opportunities and threats that Albania...

This chapter presents a comparative study between the forest surfaces as vulnerable landscape surfaces to wildfire events within the metropolitan areas. The forest fire risk is among the emerging issues in global scale especially triggered by the global warming and climate change, threatening many reserves of natural landscapes. Yet, they are more...

We bring a practical and comprehensive GIS-based framework to utilize freely available remotely sensed datasets to assess wildfire ignition probability and spreading capacities of vegetated landscapes. The study area consists of the country-level scale of the Romanian territory, characterized by a diversity of vegetated landscapes threatened by cli...

This chapter aims to deliver a brief overview of flood mitigation and protective measures at different scales within the catchment area and identify the main factors to be considered in flood risk management. It stands on an extensive literature review of the ongoing scholarly discourse on the topic. The main focus is given to novel approaches that...

This book aims to provide a cross-sectorial assessment in a multidisciplinary and trans-cultural context onto the innovations in urban and architectural approaches in designing next human environments within the Albanian context. The continuous concentration of the world population in the urban areas and their consequent densification require even...

The assessment of landscape fragmentation (LF) in developing regions is vital to support sustainable decision making in managing the accelerating territorial transformations. Albania is a case where the territorial development processes exhibit extensive transformation rates of land use and land cover (LULC). Lack of measurements for the existing s...

We bring a practical and comprehensive GIS-based framework to utilize freely available remote sensed datasets to assess wildfire ignition probability and spreading capacities of vegetated landscapes. The study area consists of the country-level scale of the Romanian territory, characterized by a diversity of vegetated landscapes threatened by the c...

The main objective of this work is to develop a cost-free and rapid method for categorizing the forest surfaces in metropolitan areas based on their Wildfire Ignition Probability Index (WIPI) and Wildfire Spreading Capacity Index (WSCI). The original method applies a multi-criterion (social, environmental, and physical) framework and utilizes comme...

This model introduces the Transversal Connectivity Index (TCI) as an ecological indicator for classifying the natural landscape patches by their effective transversal connectivity to the water surfaces. The method applies specifically to urban areas at which the quality of blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is of fundamental importance in reducing the...

Landslides are a worldwide occurring hazard that can produce economic impact and even fatalities. The collection and monitoring of data regarding active landslides are important for pre-dicting future landslides in that region, and is critical to minimize the losses caused. In the expand-ing metropolitan area of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, drastic change...

This paper introduces the fuel properties into the wildfire spreading capacity index (WSCI), which originally relies on multi-criteria of social, hydro-meteorological, and geo-physical character of the context. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Tree Cover Density (TCD), and land cover type are launched as indicators of fuel properties...

The aim of this presentation is to contribute to the collective awareness about the importance of nature-based solutions (NBS) for combating emerging societal challenges. NBS are seen as an adequate alternative to engineered approaches (which are based on grey infrastructure like dikes, dams, etc) that society has developed to deal with consequence...

Extreme weather conditions characterized by increased peak temperatures and stretched draught seasons are expected to boost up wildfire vulnerability in Mediterranean countries such as Albania. Thus, estimations about wildfire spread capacities of the territory are crucial. In this paper we introduce four new parameters into the indexing method for...

This report presents the research-based learning [RBL] process as experienced during Fall semester 2019-2020 within the scope of the graduate course, Arch530- Nature driven urban planning and design, being conducted within the Faculty of Architecture and Engineering at Epoka University. RBL is adopted as a sustainable approach in learning, which a...

Albania as a Mediterranean country is highly vulnerable to forest fires. This is amplified by the emerging effects of global warming and climate change. Extreme weather conditions characterized by increased peak temperatures and stretched draught seasons are expected to become more frequent. In this context, estimations about wildfire ignition prob...

Poster presentation

Albania as a Mediterranean country is highly vulnerable to forest fires. This is amplified by the emerging effects of global warming and climate change. Extreme weather conditions characterized by increased peak temperatures and stretched draught seasons are expected to become more frequent. In this context, estimations about wildfire ignition prob...

This poster presents an updated version of our previous GIS-based method developed for indexing the forest surfaces by their wildfire ignition probability (WIPI) and wildfire spreading capacity (WSCI). The previous study relied on a multi-criteria approach including a variety of factors of social, hydro-meteorological, and geo-physical character of...

This study presents an analytical method to identify the transversally connected natural landscape mosaics (TCNLMs) being in physical contact with the water surfaces of the territory at the metropolitan scale. It makes a comparative case between three Swedish cities; Helsingborg, Goteborg, and Malmo utilizing Urban Atlas land cover geospatial data...

Human activity combined with the dynamics of severe climate conditions are accepted the main drivers of wildfire events in the Mediterranean region. This fact is urging for further comprehensive research focusing on the wildland-urban interface (WUI) at metropolitan scale, at which the tension between the cause and effect of wildfire is the highest...

This paper presents a comparative study between the forest surfaces as vulnerable landscape surfaces to wildfire events within the metropolitan areas. The forest fire risk is among the emerging issues in global scale especially triggered by the global warming and climate change, threatening many reserves of natural landscapes. Yet, they are more se...

This study presents an analytical method to identify the transversally connected natural landscape mosaics (TCNLMs) being in physical contact with the water surfaces of the territory at the metropolitan scale. It makes a comparative case between three Swedish cities; Helsingborg, Goteborg, and Malmo utilizing Urban Atlas land cover geospatial data...

This article presents a method useful for indexing the broad-leaved forest surfaces by their wildfire ignition probability and wildfire spreading capacity at a coarse spatial scale. The framework consists of three phases; inventory, analysis, and indexing. First, the study utilizes a multi-criteria inventory procedure investigating the existing bro...

This research work originates from a basic interest in scrutinizing the unexplored symbiotic relationship between the advancements in information technologies and real life complex problems. Generally, the later boosts an intellectual energy in search for solutions to specific everyday life problems, leading to significant innovation in technology....

This poster presents the re-application of the method developed by Hysa & Turer Baskaya (2018a) in alternative water-centered contexts. Originally, the model as presented in Figure 1 was developed for revealing the transversal continuum of natural landscapes in the coastal zone being tested in the Turkish Mediterranean coastal zone (Hysa & Turer Ba...

This paper presents a multi-criteria conceptual framework for decision-making processes during Territorial and Administrative Reform (TAR) relying on sustainable development principles. In general, TAR processes highly consider socio-cultural and economic factors, but they lack responsiveness to environmental dynamics of the context. While this pra...

Albanian natural landscapes are characterized by a typological variety due to the diverse topography, climate, and natural resources. Albania is mainly a mountainous geography consisting; 28% of mountains. 47% of hills, and 25% of plain areas not exceeding 300 m above sea level. The average altitude of the topography is 708 m, doubling the average...

The study presents an analytical framework for examining the transversal structure, rather than the longitudinal pattern of the landscape in coastal zones. Our methodology introduces the concept of the ‘band’ as an alternative to the ‘buffer zone’. The Band is a dynamic notion which is rooted in the organic structure of landscape patterns and which...

The method presented in this article is helpful for analyzing the landscape properties and unfolding the transversal continuity of natural landscapes in the coastal zone. The novel conceptual approach to analyze the landscape structure in the transversal direction with reference to coastline is different from others focusing on the longitudinal ana...

This is the Geospatial data generated within the scope of our article "Revealing the transversal continuum of natural landscapes in coastal zones - Case of the Turkish Mediterranean coast".

The paper investigates the burned areas in Albania as derived from CLC data through a multi-criteria approach. The analysis criteria consist of i) Social Impact (eg transportation/accessibility, distance to the closest settlement area, relation with areas of national importance) ii) Environmental (eg sunshine duration, wind speed/wind direction, so...

While Land Cover data are usually used for visualizing and quantifying the surface coverage properties of a territory, in this study, they are utilized to graphically and numerically assess the landscape fragmentation and/or connect-ability. The main goal of the proposal is to visualize and quantify landscape fragmentation based on CORINE Land Cove...

This paper presents an evaluation method for decision making processes of territorial and administrative reform. It makes a case on a comparative analysis of two sets of statistical data derived from a single land cover evidence being spatially subdivided according to the spatial pattern of two different versions of local administrative maps of Alb...

Footbridge, by its name, proclaims that it is a special urban access medium for pedestrians. Unfortunately, there are less works that through research highlight this fact. Generally, pedestrian bridges are taken into account not enough differently than classical bridge 1 itself. There are many scientific works focusing on the structural properties...

The main goal of this work is to compare and contrast two industrial sites by a multi-criteria method. Two sites are chosen from Albania, a post socialist country where important industrial sites have faced the same destination of being abandoned, forgotten or even demolished during post socialist period. Their being inside or adjacent to important...

Even though it is not clear yet if the recent global academic trend towards transdisciplinarity is rather a consequence of the everlasting human need for change or a result of a sincere humanity self-consciousness process based on a long human history experience, it is for sure that this tendency is highly inspired by the complexity of our existenc...

The aim of this work is to unfold the vulnerable state of the urban skies of Tirana, the capital city of-a 20 years old-post-socialist country, Albania. Urban Skies here is used for the fragments of the eternal upper coverer of the open public spaces of the city. If you give a break and come out from the daily life routine trying to grasp some piec...

http://icar2012.uauim.ro/ "The Romanian School of Architecture is 120 years old in 2012, and the Conference you are invited at represents the highlight of the anniversary events organized in its honor. The Romanian School of Architecture represented, even since its very beginnings, a place of architectural education, research and of real architectu...