CREATING HUMAN LANDSCAPES IN LAKE SHORES - THE CASE OF SHKODRA LAKE

Lakes have always been suitable environments for the development of settlements, especially urban ones, and a permanent source of welfare for human life. Depending on their geographical position, origin, orographic qualities and their water quality, lakes have contributed to the economic and territorial development of lakeshore settlements. Otherwise, human activity has affect the natural environment, due to the settlements development and exploitation of constituent lake’s elements for benefits. Based on typical lakes position, accessibility, level of their human use, the local or regional communities, in their strategies for development or territorial planning tend to define the lake shores as natural landscapes, recreational or economic landscapes; this choice provides on creating landscapes and the perspective of lakeshore environment.Thus, territorial development differs dependence on physical qualities or economic activities of lakeshore areas.