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Gazi Üniversitesi, Batı Dilleri Ve Edebiyatları Bölümü, Ankara / Türkiye
Anahtar Kelimeler: Gérard de Nerval, Doğu'da Seyahat, Türk / Osmanlı İmgesi, Oryantalizm,
Öteki.
ÖZET
Çalışmada, Fransız şair, yazar ve romantik gezginlerinden Gérard de Nerval'in Doğu'da
Seyahat adlı romanında gün ışığına çıkan Türk / Osmanlı imgesi, metne bağlı inceleme yöntemi
ışığında çözümlenmeye çalışılacaktır. XIX. yüzyılın ortalarında uzun zamandır düşlediği
İstanbul'a gelen ve Osmanlı kültürüne derin bir sevgi ile bağlanması sonucunda gündemde
kalmayı başarmış romantik bir gezgindir Nerval. Düşler ve gündelik yaşam arasında sıkışan
yazar, giderek artan bir biçimde benliğindeki gelgitlerle boğuşurken, gecesini aydınlatacak olan
ışığı Doğu'da görür. Antik dönemden beri "romantiğin yeri", "egzotik varlığın mekânı",
"sahiplenici veya tahakküm altına alıcı anıların ve deneyimlerin ülkesi" olan bu uzamda kendi
söylencesini oluşturur. Okur, Batı izlenimleriyle açılıp Mısır ve Suriye'den sonra İstanbul'a dek
uzanan yapıtın odak noktasında Türk / Osmanlı imgesine yakından tanıklık eder. Nerval, gezdiği
bu uzamların, efsanelerini, fantastik öykülerini, geleneklerini, göreneklerini, tarihini, toplumsal
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çoğunlukla mistik bir ruhla bağlandığı Doğu'da, geçmişini ve kendi tinsel dünyasını ararken,
ötekini / başkasını nesnel olarak algılamaya yönelir. İstanbul ve özellikle Pera'daki izlenimleri,
harem yaşantısına olan ilgisi, Türklerin Müslüman olmayanlara karşı gösterdikleri hoşgörüdeki
başarısı, derviş tekkeleri, mezarlıkların güzellikleri, pazarlar, Ramazan geceleri, bayramlar gibi
konularda yazarın aktardığı bilgiler, yapıtın kültürel artalanını oluşturur. Öznel bir bakış
açısından aktarılan ve her satırında yazarın soluğunun duyumsandığı Doğu'da Seyahat
yapıtından yola çıkarak Türk / Osmanlı imgesi irdelenmeye çalışılmıştır.

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                    <text>1st International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
May 5-7 2011 Sarajevo

German and French Borrowings in an EFL Context – A Serbian
Perspective
Biljana ĥubroviĤ
English Department, Faculty of Philology
University of Belgrade, Serbia
biljana.cubrovic@fil.bg.ac.rs
Abstract: This paper looks into the nature, some specificities of interlanguage usage and
the phonetic adaptation (or the lack of it) in the area of some recent French and German
loanwords and their teaching in a Serbian EFL classroom. It is a commonplace to say that
French, German and English have been in intensive contact for many centuries now, but
the level and direction of influence have by no means been constant. The two main
extralinguistic criteria that trigger the borrowing process, need and prestige, are taken into
account, with the aim of deciding to what extent such newer lexical acquisitions have
been nativised in contemporary English. The nature of the linguistic contact between
French and English, on the one hand, and German and English, on the other, conditions
the selection process in which a loanword enters the English lexicon, and an EFL
classroom. Lastly, a justification for the teaching of borrowings is provided and some
guidelines for their teaching offered, which could easily be implemented in any EFL
context.
Key Words: Loanword, borrowing, pronunciation, French, English, German, Serbian
EFL learner

Introduction
The linguistic developments of English and French have been intertwined for quite a long time. The
intensity of the contact seems to be susceptible to constant changes, but the contact produced many important but
also less significant influences, especially in the domain of lexical borrowings. Lexical borrowings are most
prone to permeate another language, and they can be seen as mere additions, or rather enrichments to the lexical
inventory of the recipient language, depending on the reasons of their introduction into the recipient language.
The intermittent linguistic contact between English and French resulted in the expanse of the lexical inventory of
English. No matter how dominant English seems to be today, its vocabulary is still growing and many new
additions come from across the Channel. According to Merriam Webster‘s Collegiate Dictionary (MWCD, for
short), as many as 8,324 entries are still listed as French borrowings, or at least having something to do with
French. The corpus extracted from MWCD by an advanced search tool this electronic dictionary has to offer,
ranges from very simple vocabulary like arrive, letter and vase, but also contains a number of clichéd phrases
like vers libre, premier danseur and Nez Percé. It is important to note that not all entries listed in MWCD as
originating from French have a French origin. Many words have the Latin root and in some cases it is unclear
how a word found its way into the lexical inventory of English. It should be borne in mind that the number given
above is by no means exact, but it still can be used as a starting point and a rough estimate.
Although German and English are both Germanic languages, their linguistic contact is less intense,
judging by the number of German borrowings in English. According to MWCD, German lexical additions
amount to 2,522 entries, but many lexical items only have vague traces of German, and can be seen as indirect
borrowings (especially from Yiddish and also Latin). Still, there is a number of strictly German borrowings
present in the corpus, e.g. Festschrift, hausfrau, kitsch, wunderkind and verboten, but also gastronomic terms
like schnitzel, strudel and wurst.

The Nature of the Linguistic Contact
There is virtually no language that has not borrowed words from other languages, and the reasons for
lexical importation are manifold. To name just a few, Weinreich‘s (1953) pioneer study on contact linguistics is
used. Some kind of cultural influence may trigger the borrowing process. It may also occur when rare native
words are lost and then substituted by borrowings, or when two native words sound so similar that substituting
one by a foreign lexical item eliminates possible misunderstandings in a given speech community. One of the
roots of lexical borrowing is a constant need for synonyms, especially in those cases where native words have
lost their expressive force. By way of adding new lexical items from a foreign language, new, subtle semantic
nuances may become possible. Furthermore, a word may be taken over from a low-status language and be used

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pejoratively, or quite on the contrary, a word may be taken over from a high-status language and be used to
achieve an effect of prestige. Even though lexical borrowing is the most widespread type of borrowing, mainly
due to the fact that new lexical acquisitions cannot affect the language system as a whole, languages do not
utilize it without limitations. In other words, the speakers of English do not borrow randomly, but when they do
import, they do it for a reason. All the situations mentioned above cannot apply to any language contact.
Weinreich studied the process of borrowing taking many language communities into account, and an attempt is
made here to check his reasons having English as a recipient language, and German and French as donor
languages.
Later contact linguistics studies, such as Thomаson &amp; Kаufmаn‘s (1988: 72-7) hold that the social
factor they labelled the ―intensity of contact‖ between the two languages is of great importance for the typology
of borrowing. This factor assisted them in proposing a unique borrowing scale that ranges from a very casual
contact, on one hand, to a very intense cultural pressure, on the other end of the scale. I will now look into the
nature of the linguistic contact between English and French, but also English and German.
The linguistic contacts between English and French in the last two centuries have resulted mostly in
lexical borrowing, thus enriching the lexicon of English as the recipient language. This kind of borrowing may
be referred to as a casual contact, without any serious consequences to the language system. Borrowings that are
introduced into the recipient language do not have a great impact in L2, and there is a minimum of cultural
interference associated with them. Furthermore, the intensity of the linguistic contact may change with time, and
this is exactly what happened during the development of English and French. These two languages repeatedly
borrowed lexemes, and the intensity of contact changed according to the status of the donor language. French
seemed to be a dominant language in the Middle English period, but more recently English has offered French
many newer lexical acquisitions. Interestingly enough, some loanwords entered the recipient language twice,
denoting various concepts. For instance, a recent French loanword chаise has the same root (but a completely
different lexical status) in contemporary English, if compared to an earlier French loanword chair. Similarly, the
newer French loanword pâté has a ring of prestige to it (this may be due to its unchanged orthography), unlike an
earlier cognate that is very common in the lexical inventory of English, pastry.
Diachronically, the intensity of contact between French as a donor language, and English as a recipient
language, was the strongest in the Middle English period. The linguistic influence of French was so intense in
this period that English borrowed two new phonemes, the velar nasal //, but also the palate-alveolar fricative
//. Generally speaking, the importation of phonemes occurs very rarely, and when it has been realized
translinguistically it leads linguists to think of the language contact as very powerful. Phonological importation
is a sure indicator of a strong interlinguistic influence, even though the donor language may only fill its empty
phonological slots, that had previously not been utilized. However, linguistic history has repeated itself and the
French language enriched the phonological inventory even in the Modern English period by way of introducing
nazalized vowels into English. Wells &amp; Colson (1971: 34) propose a term for such phonological innovations and
refer to them as ―marginal segments―. Such phonemes are used strictly in loanwords from the donor language
and do not have a tendency to reach a status a regular native phoneme has. This means that the nazalized French
phoneme will probably not be equal to native English phonemes when it comes to the distribution in English –
such vowels will retain the positions they have in French loanwords, without a tendency to gain other positions
and be employed in the words of Germanic stock, unless used jokingly.
English and German, both belonging to the same family of language, share a large percentage of the
lexicon. Words of Germanic origin in these two languages resemble one another in the domain of their phonetic
shape, but also in their semantic content. The borrowing hypothesis is that German offers its lexical items
pertaining to its cultural heritage, and that the intensity of the contact is not strong.
Most linguistis (Weinreich 1953: 79; Bolinger 1968: 90-1; Lаngаcker 1968: 177-79; Vаn Coetsem
1988: 13; Trаsk 1994: 12-15; Hock &amp; Joseph 1996: 271; Rаdford et аl. 1999: 255) agree that two most
important trgiggering factors of borrowing are ―need― and ―prestige―. When speakers of a language are in need
of a lexeme for a new cultural, technological or religious concept, the easiest way to acquire it is by way of
borrowing. The English lexemes typhoon i monsoon (Hockett 1965: 405) entered the English language by way of
borrowing. On the other hand, words like teа, coffee, tobаcco, sugаr, cocoа, chocolаte or tomаto became an
indispensible part of the English vocabulary, although they originate from a number of different languages.
Prestige brought about many new lexical acquisitions in English. Middle English borrowed beef, veаl and pork
from the French, and used them alongside with the native items cow/bull and pig, to signal fine French culinary
concepts. French was the language of the Court at the time, and its usage signalled a noble origin.

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French: treatment of nazalised vowels
French belongs to the group of the world‘s languages (cca. 20%) whose phonological inventories use
nasal vowels (Paradis &amp; Prunet 2000: 351). Theoretically speaking, French has four nasal vowels,
/
/, English has none. On the other hand, some phoneticians claim that American
English utilizes nazalized vowels more than French, where such vowels have the status of phonemes. This is
irrelevant for the current study, due to the fact that it mostly covers the phonological state of affairs in British
English.
The corpus analysis shows that three out of four French nasal vowels occur - /
loanwords containing French nasal vowels undergo the process of unpacking, where the nasal vowel does not
occur in the English replica. The sequence of an oral vowel + nasal consonant occurs instead, and such
pronunciations may be interpreted as anglicized. Selected examples of all three French vowels follow (for more
examples, see Cubrovic, 2005):
(1) Fr. /
/ → Eng. / / + N
gamin /
/
intern /
/
intransigeance
princesse
/
quintet
/
singleton /
/
timbale /
/

/

(2) Fr. /
/ → Eng. / / + N
aplomb /
/
blouson /
/
Cabernet Sauvignon /
crouton /
/
filet mignon /
piton /
/
raconteur /
/
(3) Fr. /
/ → Eng. / / + N
danseur /
entourage /
/
entrepreneur /
fiance, fiancee /
/
Franglais /
Montmorency /
restaurant /

/
/

/

/

Anglicized French words where vowel nasality is abandoned follow the English pronunciation patterns
and an EFL teacher is advised to teach them as such to their non-native learners. Serbian learners may at times
be confused by the pronunciation of those loanwords that Serbian also borrowed directly from French, or
indirectly through another language, e.g. ambulance, avant-garde, billion, blouson, camion, centime, debutante,
elan, hangar, panda, renaissance, restaurant. However, these words should be taught as native words of
English, as the process of anglicization seems to be completed. Special attention should be paid to the semantic
content, which may vary in English and Serbian as recipient languages. The lexeme camion is a very frequent
word in Serbian, but it is very rarely used in English in the meaning the Serbian language adopted it (Eng. truck,
lorry). This loanword may be classified as an interlinguistic false friend and an EFL student‘s attention should be
drawn to the difference, provided they come across it in a conversation or a text composed in English. This type
of problematic situation is often debated in EFL teaching, and it covers those lexical items which students make
up on the spur of the moment, drawing parallels between their native language and English. Similarly, Serbian
EFL learners very often use a nonce formation fabric to denote the concept of a factory (Serb. fabrika).
Alongside with the process of unpacking, English has phonologized a certain number of loanwords,
thus making them semi-foreign. The introduction of vowel nasality is evident in these words, but the vowel

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quality has been approximated to the phonological system of English. The three French nasal vowel /
/ are adapted to /
/ and /
/
. Selected examples from the corpus illustrate the point:
(4) Fr. /
/ → Eng. /
/
fin de siècle /
pointe /
coq au vin
(5) Fr.
→ Eng.
raison d‘etre /
Cabernet Sauvignon  /
crouton /
/
marrons glacés /
montage /
nom de plume /
piton /
/
wagon-lit /
(6) Fr. /
/ → Eng. /
agent provocateur
arrondissement
croissant
debutant
elan
enfant terrible
idiot savant
pièce de résistance
séance

,

,

/
/
/

Judging by examples given in (4)-(6), these loanwords have not undergone the process of assimilation
to the full extent. This may be due to their infrequent use or prestigious aura, or the combination of these two
factors. The retaining nasality strongly resembles the French pronunciations of the models. Many of the lexemes
listed are French phrases, which may be classified as ―learned words‖. Group (5) brings about a logical
conclusion about the unstable phonetic shapes of some loanwords. If a loanword can be pronounced in two
different ways, EFL learners are best advised to use the fully assimilated form, e.g. elan, crouton. At the later
stages of EFL acquisition, EFL learners might be taught how to pronounce unassimilated forms.
Lexemes such as crouton, montage, croissant, debutant, elan and séance, among others, are also
French loanwords used in Serbian. A plausible assumption is that a Serbian EFL learner will recognize these in
English, and be able to deduce the meaning. However, the EFL learners should beware the varying level of
frequency of these words in English and Serbian, as recipient languages. Montage, for instance, is a noun that
can be characterized as highly frequent in Serbian, but not in English. Séance, on the other hand, may have
specialized meanings in Serbian and English.
German: need and prestige
The German share of loanwords in English seems to be much more moderate compared to the massive
influx of French borrowings. Some lexemes are characterized by unique German semantic contents, e.g.
auslander, autobahn, blitzkrieg, doppelganger, kindergarten, schilling, or they belong to a semantic field
specific for the German speaking territories, e.g. alpenglow, alpenhorn, alpenstock. Isolated loanwords may be
interpreted as ―learned‖ - Bauhaus, Biedermeier, bildungsroman or Ablaut. The nature of the contact between
German and English, and German and Serbian varies to a large extent, and consequently German loanwords in
English and Serbian will only occasionally strike a Serbian EFL learner. The German lexical items Biedermeier
may trap a Serbian EFL learner, but mostly with regard to the meaning. German pronunciation rules are
straightforward and very few pronunciations change significantly as a result of tanslinguistic importation.

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Learning and teaching a foreign language through texts, get on the basis of analysis and interpretation of texts in a
language teaching. So, by the teaching of foreign language, texts decisive individuals in the process of language
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Program in German Language Teaching, Department of Foreign Languages, Anadolu University during 2012-2013
academic year by the reading skills course.
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texts from the approach of intercultural communication, which we use. It is researched if that aforementioned
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                    <text>1st International Syposium on Sustainable Development, June 9-10 2009, Sarajevo

Getting Increase of the Aquaculture Population and Varieties
with the Artificial Habitats
Yusuf Guner
Ege University, Fisheries Faculty,
Aquaculture Department,Izmir-Turkey
yusuf.guner@ege.edu.tr
Erkan Can
Tunceli University,
Fisheries Faculty, Tunceli-Turkey
Murathan Kayim
Tunceli University,
Fisheries Faculty, Tunceli-Turkey
Gurel Turkmen
Ege University, Fisheries Faculty,
Aquaculture Department,Izmir-Turkey
Mehmet Ali Canyurt
Ege University, Fisheries Faculty,
Aquaculture Department,Izmir-Turkey

Abstract: The significance and protection of the biological diversity in the continental waters
of countries in the world has become one of the concerns which should be addressed as a
matter of urgency. The scientists consistently underline the fact that several species are
endangered to extinct and that the number and population of such species are gradually
decreasing. There observed many causes of the extinction of the species. The heavily increase
of the human population is the most important reason for this. Such a heavy increase leads to
establishment of new settlement areas and constriction of the wild life. In this case, the
number of wild species extinct rapidly. Several scientists and members of the nature
protection organizations are aware of this particular case and conduct studies to protect the
natural environment of the wild life. In this context, the wild life should be given the chance
to reproduce through formation of the national parks and natural protection zones. Such parks
and zones should function as a shelter for some of the wild species. However, the measures
always include the inland environments. As a matter of fact, sea and lake ecosystems should
also be protected. It is a well known fact that one of the most important reasons of the species
leading their lives in the inland waters is the excessive fishing. When the environmental
pollution is taken into account, the descendance of several species is left to chance. In
addition global warming and climatic changes may have an impact on this particular matter.
In this case, it can be argued that various fisheries in the continental waters may extinct. It is
an inevitable fact that the scientific studies to be conducted to increase the population of the
fisheries and water products in the lakes and rivers of the country through promoting the
survival of miscellaneous fishes and aqua Formation of artificial habitats in the lakes and
rivers and such other appropriate locations may be of importance in the future. In this context,
our study will bear a torch on the researches to be conducted for the ecological and
sustainable water resources.
Keywords: ecology, inland waters, artificial habitats.

1. Introduction
The creation of artificial reef habitat has been employed by many coastal states as an effective method of
increasing fisheries productivity, providing additional recreational and commercial fishing opportunities for hard
substrate dependentfisheries,and enhancingthe forage base (A mbrose 1994; Ditton et al. 2002; Figley 2004; Myatt
&amp; Myatt 1992; Stevens &amp; Pondella 2002). The creation of artificialreefs on flat,featureless, sandy seabeds has
been a form of enhancement for subsistence, commercial and sport fishing practiced in certain countries for
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centuries.Itis onlyin more recent yearsthat advanced engineering and design principles have been incorporated
into this field, along with quantitative ecological and socio-economic assessment of habitat structure and
function (Seaman, 1995). Artificial reefs have been used most prominently for fisheries harvest enhancement
though they have been employed globally in a variety of other coastal management schemes including
aquaculturein the Adriatic Sea (Fabi et al., 1989), enhancement of recreational diving and tourism opportunities
throughout the United States (Milon, 1991; Ditton et al. 1999), habitat rehabilitation in the Maldives (Clark &amp;
Edwards 1994), and prevention of trawling in Europe (Reilini, 2000).
In the restoration of ecosystems after some damage (storms, exposure to toxic phytoplankton blooms,
destructive fishing practices, construction and dredging projects and chemical pollutant contamination)
especially where physical structure provides added benefits (e.g., habitat or shelter) to the ecosystem, artificial
reefs represent one potentially useful restoration tool(Pickering et al. 1998). Physicalstructurein an ecosystem
can be achieved in a number of ways, and definitive progress has been made since the early 1900s when
artificial reefs were built as a hit-or-miss dumping operation of unsightly scrap material(Dean, 1983) such as
tires and car bodies.
Japan and the United States have by far been the two most active nations in the evolution of artificialreef
habitats. Although the early histories of reef building in both countries show many similarities, current designs,
deployment strategies and use of materials exhibit sharply contrasting approaches.In Japan the government
is actively involved in reef construction activitiesthrough its fishery agency subsidy programme.This agency is
involved in planning and guidance and provides substantial funding for those projects that use governmentcertified reef products. An important aspect ofthe Japanese system is a political approach that provides rights of
use to those who construct and deploy reefs. These rights convey the sole control ofthe harvest and use of the
fishery resources around these structures. By contrast, in the United States, state and local governments, with
only general guidance and minimal funding, carry out most marine and freshwater habitat construction
activities.In the US these reef developments are incorporated into a common-property allocation system (Stone
et al. 1991).In general, European artificial reefs are in the developmental stage (e.g. Italy, Portugal, Spain,
United Kingdom and Germany). Research programmes are currently in operation in a number of European
countries. One of the most significant eventsin recenttimes, with regardstothe whole area of reef development
in Europe was the establishmentin May 1995 of the European Artificial Reef Research Network (EARRN).The
Network, involving 51 members,active in various aspects of artificialreefresearch, has overthe last number of
years helped to focus and drive active research in this area (Jensen 1998).
The goal ofthe article is to discuss the pertinent information of an artificialreef study including details
on artificial reef’s objectives,reef site, environmental conditions, design, monitoring,results and performance
evaluation.

2. Definition/Purpose of an Artificial Reef
MarineFisheries defines an artificialreef as:
An area within the marine waters/Inland waters of the Com monwealth in which approved structures
have intentionally been placed or constructed for the purpose of enhancing benthic relief. Structures may be
designed to provide and/or improve opportunities for recreational and com mercial fishing, aid in the
management or enrichment of fishery resources and ecosystem services, or to achieve a combination of these
objectives.
Artificialreefs have been used in fishery management to
- provide new habitatsthatincrease number and biomass ofdepleted fishery resources,
-restore habitats,
- preventtrawlers from using areas,
-reduce fishing pressure,
- and possibly, mitigate deterioration of habitats (Bohnsack &amp; Sutherland 1985; Chang, 1985;
Polovina,1989, Seaman &amp; Sprague 1991).
Đn most cases,investigations suggestthat artificial reefs are effective in naturel conservation and habitat
reconstruction. They are also beneficialto small-scale fisheries (Fujisawa et al.1991; Supongpan &amp; Sintothong,
1992).

3. Biological Productivity and Aggregation
Artificial reefs are used as tools by resource managers to enhance desired species, attract fish to more
suitable areas,restrict certain gear types, and to partition activity among competing user groups (Sheehy 1985).
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The fundamental question in artificial reef science today examines whether artificial structures have the ability
to produce new fish biomass or whether reefs merely concentrate existing fish populations (Bohnsack 1989).
Several studies demonstratethe attractive properties of artificial reefs by documenting the ability of artificial
reefs to yield higher catch rates of targeted fish species when compared to similar fishing over natural
reef areas (Turner et al. 1969; Candle 1985). Other studies outline the production properties of artificial reefs
by documenting higher densities of mature fish on artificial reefs when compared to nearby natural reefs (Love
et al. 2005).The consensus of the 8th Conference on Artificial Reefs and Artificial Habitats (CARA H) was
that artificial reefs “are now believed to be more of a continuum, both attracting and enhancing fish
populations. Properly constructed, and strategically sited artificial reefs can enhance fish habitat, provide more
access to quality fishing grounds, benefit fishermen, divers and the economies of shore communities,increase
total biomass in a given area and provide managers with yet another option for conserving, managing and
developing fishery resources.”
The degree of attraction or production of an artificial reef may be the direct result of many complex
variables,including location of the reef,type of reef materials,life history, behavior of fish species, proximity
of natural reefs, age of the reef, and numerous environmentalfactors. Since the majority of artificialreefs have
the ability to serve in each capacity,fisheries managers and other reef builders must consider the consequences
of production and aggregation of reef fish populations when planning new reefs or establishing management
policiesfor future and existing reefs. The wise use of artificialreefs as a potentialtool for fisheries management
requires the implementation of sound standards and practices regarding construction, maintenance, and
exploitation of all artificialreefs established.

4. Site Selection
Reef site selection is one of the most critical decisions in the entire reef building process, and the most
frequent cause of artificial reef failures. The construction of artificial reefs began before the scientific
community started to develop sound guidelines for site selection. This has lead to artificial reefs being built in
locations and at depths that were not suitable for construction. Consequently, many reefs ended up on a
shoreline after a storm, disappeared totally, or sank down into the bottom to the point where much,if not all,
of their effectiveness was lost (Matthews 1985). The optimum site conditions required for artificial reef
deployment depends greatly on their intended purpose and design. Thus it is necessary to invoke the first
generic rule ofreef planning,i.e."toidentifythe goalsforthe artificial reef deployment exercise" (Kennish et al.
1999). There are a range of factors that should be taken into account when selecting a site for an artificial reef,
these include taking into consideration the physical environment, the biological environment and local users of
the area (Heaps et al. 1997).
Constraint mapping techniques are commonly used in site selection studies to bring together social,
economic and environmental considerations in an overall context (Gordon 1994; Heaps et al. 1997; Kennish
et al.1999). Once the physical and biological characteristics of potential sites have been deemed suitable for
artificial reef construction, the process of site selection can then encompass stakeholders, including public
agencies, businesses, private non-profit organisations, scientists, engineers, managers, users of the resource, as
well as the general public. Constraint mapping involves the building up of layers of information concerning
areas where some form of constraint exists, for example, user conflict, and environmental or engineering
constraints. Computer assisted Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are usually employed to provide a
powerful tool enabling these areas of constraint to be represented in a “user friendly” way. The resulting maps
then show unconstrained areas in which furtherinvestigations can be focused.
As artificial reefs are a relatively new phenomenon in Europe, it is only in recent years, particularly
through the action of EARRN, that various studies throughout Europe have been examined comparatively, and
that collaboration on a wider scale is beginning to take place. One of the main problems in setting out a
European framework for site selection isthat each potentialsite forthe construction of an artificialreef may be
subjected to very different physical and biological factors, and constructed for very different uses. Because of
these various factors, and due to thelimited knowledge ofthe impact and biological production of artificialreefs
in Europe to date,itis best to consider each location using the selection matrix shown in (Fig. 1).

5. Design &amp; Materials
The three main aspectsto reef design:the location of the artificial reef, the materials used in it, and the
way in which they are arranged are all factors that can be planned and controlled. When any of these factors
are neglected,the probability of failure ofthe reefincreases.Inthe past,and to some extent at present, materials
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of opportunity account for a large part of materials used in reef construction, the most basic and com mon
materials being rocks. Artisanal fisheries use natural materials that not only include rock but also brush piles
and log cribs on the bottom, floating rafts of bamboo, coconut fronds, and cork. A wide variety of materials
currently used in the development and construction of artificial reefs globally. Among the oldest habitat
enhancement practices is the use of floating structures made of natural materials to attract finfish.In Japan,
rocks have been placed either singly, as a pile, in wooden cribs, or in scuttled boats. The traditional
Japanese word for an artificial fishing reef “Tsuki Iso” means “constructed shore rock”. Surplus and scrap
materials, including derelict ships, automobile bodies, automobile tyres, debris from demolition projects, and
even discarded off-shore oil platforms, make up the majority of materials of opportunity. These can usually be
obtained at no cost and deployed without assembly or significant

Figure 1: Artificial Reef SiteSelection Process (Heaps et al.1997)
modification, except for cleaning to eliminate environmental hazards.More recently, waste combustion
by-products from fossilfuel-fired electricity generating plants(i.e. mixes of fly ash with flue-gas sulphurisation
scrubber sludge) have been experimentallytested (Grove etal. 1991).
There has been an increase in man-made materials in the construction of artificial reefs. These
include concrete, iron and steel, reinforced concrete (concrete and steel), ceramic, plastic, plastic concrete
(concrete mixed with polyethylene, polypropylene, sand, and iron), fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP), and
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asbestos fibre, among others. Structures made from these materials are usually fabricated on land according to
particular design specifications.While available in all shapes and sizes, virtually all reefs have been built with
some form of tangible benefit in mind. In doing so, reef builders incorporate one or more principles from
relevant disciplines such as biology, economics or physical sciences and engineering (Seaman 1996).
Biological principles include habitat limitation, habitat complexity, refuge from predators and environmental
stress to name but a few. Physical principles deal with strength and stability of reef materials and construction,
involving factors such as material science, civil engineering and physical oceanography. Psychological, social
and economic aspects of human behaviour also are important when considering reef design, taking into account
the requirements of possible end user groups, such as commercial fishermen, sea anglers and SCUBA
divers.Throughout the world, there have been huge variations in the shape, size and complexity of blocks used
in artificialreefs. Over the course of this research,it has been shown that even though scrap materials and rock
can function effectively as artificial reefs when properly handled and sited, the shapes, size, and long-term
physical stability and biological productivity afforded by such materials arelessthen ideal. Most ofthe new reef
units, particularlyin Japan, are fabricated from reinforced or pre-stressed concrete,steel,fibreglass, or a variety
of composite materials. Prefabricated sections are either produced individually at shore staging areas or massproduced at a central location and transported to the staging area. Here they can be combined and built in a
variety of configurations thus allowing adjustment to local conditions and needs. While variations may be
considerable, most of the large-scale units for fish are designed to provide substantial open space, permit good
circulation within the unit, promote current deflections, and project high enough in the water column to attract
both reef and mid-water species. Figures 2 to 9 show the variation in designs and materials, which have been
utilised in global reef developments.

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Figure 3. Concrete blocks used as a reef complex. ©
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Marine Institute
Resources
Laboratory.

Figure 2.Simple Hollow concrete
module
(Lok et al., 1999)

Figure 4. Japanese reef module
“JU M B O” (Mottet, 1981)

Figure 6. Abalone Nursey Block
(Seaman, 1996)

Figure 8. American tyre reefmodules (Collins et
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Figure 7. Reefball
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The OSPAR guidelines on artificial reefs in relation to living marine resources, state with respect to
materials used in reef building that: Materials used should be inert.Inert materials being those which do not
cause pollution through leaching, physical or chemical weathering and/or biological activity. Physical or
chemical weathering of structures may result in increased exposures for sensitive organisms to contaminants
and lead to adverse environmental effects. Materials used for the construction of permanent artificial reefs will
of necessity be bulky in nature, for example geological material, concrete or steel. No materials should be
used for the construction of artificial reefs, which constitute wastes, or other matter whose disposal at sea is
otherwise prohibited.

6. Utilisation
The uses of artificial reefs can be grouped into three major categories: physical, biological, and
recreational. Artificialreefs have in the past exploited various combinations ofthese categories.
6.1. Physical
From a physical point of view the utilisation of abandoned structures such as shipwrecks, platforms and
stabilised recycled waste materials, could provide a good opportunity for the construction of artificial reefs
(Collins &amp; Jensen 1997). Modern coastal defence philosophy has been turning away from the “hard” defences
typified by concrete seawalls towards a “soft engineering” approach, absorbing wave energy before itimpacts
easily erodible beaches and cliffs. For example, reefs designed for coastal protection may be composed of
breakwater blocks. These are typically massive structures with low centres of gravity for high strength and
stability, designed to form void spaces when stacked close together to dissipate the energy of waves and
currents. Artificial reefs may also be specifically designed to physically protect sensitive biotopes and nursery
areas. In areas where small trawling boats violate the law and enter the coastal area where fishing is
prohibited, artificial reefs can be used as simple mechanical obstacles. This will enable more fish to develop
and thereby increase the biomass of the stocks in the open sea (Bombace 1997). For example, artificial reef
projects were implemented between 1988 and 1993 off the Spanish coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, Cantabric
Sea (northern Spain) and around the Canary Islands. At depths oflessthen 50m, these shallow reefs were placed
in areas where trawling was already prohibited. However, the subsequent discovery of nets, traps and other
fishing gear entangled on the reefs proved that fishing bans were often ignored (See Fig 9, Revenga et al. 1997).
6.2. Biological
From a biological perspective the enhancement of biomass and biodiversity, particularly in the form of
harvestable resources,is one of the main goalsin artificialreef construction programmes. As many studies have
focused on specific groups or subjects, it can often be difficult to decide if artificial habitats act only as
attractors or contribute to biomass production. While there is no doubt that most reefs can enhance benthic
biomass by providing new surfaces for settlement, the main problem is the effective and quantitative
measurement of fish biomass and the question of biomass enhancement. Similarly, little attention has
been given to understanding the role of artificial reefs in preserving and implementing biodiversity. There is
an urgent requirement to standardise research protocols for studying artificial reefs, so that these issues may
be clarified. It must also be remembered that while an increase in biomass of harvestable resources is one of
the main goals of most artificialreef constructions, protection and restoration of littoral communities and biodiversity must also be considered (Relini &amp; Relini 1997).
Com mercially fished crustacea are generally dependent on a hard substratum in which to live. Therefore
the role of artificial reefs in lobster stock enhancement is primarily one of either providing habitat where none
had existed before, or the modification of a natural habitat. Atleastfour countries, Canada,Israel,the USA and
the UK have focused attention on artificial reefs as a specific lobster habitat (Spanier 1991; Jensen &amp; Collins
1992). Although artificial reefs have been shown to effectively support several commercially important lobster
species,the economics ofthese reefsinlobster stock enhancement are still being investigated.
The best examples of the use of artificial reefs for Molluscan culture comes from Japan, where habitat
construction for bivalves has been applied for both soft and hard bottom species enhancement. The aim of these
artificial reefs has been to cause stagnation and local accumulation of drifting larvae and eggs, thereby
preventing attrition and dispersal of juveniles and thus enhancing their settling opportunity on local grounds.
The introduction of such artificial reefs can not only help to improve productivity for molluscs, but also that
of other organisms, especially fish (Fabi &amp; Fiorentini 1997). For example, the cubic concrete blocks used
frequently in Italian reef construction have also proved to be suitable for benthic and nekto-benthic reef
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dwelling fish. Conversely, concrete cages and floating structures for shellfish culture are mainly effective for
pelagic and nekto- benthic species that live inside and around the reef but do not require shelter or physical
contact with the structures. Research indicates thatin the future, creation of artificial habitats for molluscs may
play an important role in both the enhancement of wild populations and in the establishment of new marine
farming grounds on exposed sandy beaches, rocky shores and in estuaries (Fabi et al.1989).
Another potential area for the use of artificial reefs is in the seaweed culture sector.There have
been a number of cases where artificial reefs have been specifically deployed to encourage the
development of seaweeds on a com mercial basis (Falace &amp; Bressan 1997).In Japan, there are currently many
projects in operation that are designed to improve the environment for seaweeds, typically Laminaria. These
artificial reefs involve placing substrate blocks or rocks at depths suitable for the growth of the most desirable
local seaweeds, and are often planned to include sea urchin or abalone culture (Mottet 1981).
Artificialreefs are even now being used as a tool in nutrient removal by increasing the amount of hard
substrata that can be colonised. Aquatic plants and filter- feeding sessile animals such as mussels and
barnacles are among the groups capable of effectively absorbing nutrients (Jensen 1998). The removal of
absorbed nutrients is then accomplished through harvesting the biomass. In order to increase the limited
knowledge about the economic realism of artificial reefs in nutrient removal, the use of reefs needs to be
compared with the solutions used in normal community wastewater treatment.While artificial reefs will always
represent alow-efficiency solution for nutrientremoval,itmay also be possibleto achieve alow-cost solution as
well. It is mainly for this reason that the concept of nutrient removal with artificial reefs is considered to be
worth developing.
6.3. Recreational
In addition to their physical and biological uses artificial reefs have been used in more direct and
functional roles. Artificial reefs have been utilised to provide more reliable access to fish for recreational
fishermen, while also reducing both vessel and automotive fuel consumption.
Recreational diving has become an increasingly important source of income to the tourist industry,
particularlyin countries such as North America, Australia,and some islands ofthe South Pacific. Artificialreefs
are popular with divers as they provide convenient sites with a concentration of fishes and other organisms
(Reggio 1989).Ships, concrete, tyres and stone rubble are among the most common materials used for reef
construction for divers. Artificial reefs used as dive tour sites are subject to less fishing pressure from the
public, asthe high use patterns by dive tour firms preclude much of the fishing activity.W hen used as part of a
non-destructive “eco-tourism” dive package, such reefs provide significantly greater economic return than when
used for commercial fishery purposes (Brock 1994).
In more recent years, surfing has increased in popularity worldwide and there is significant potential for
income generated from this activity. The growth rate inthe UK is now about 20% per year. One ofthe biggest
constraintstothis growth isthe lack of reasonable surf sites,and severe overcrowding of beaches with the better
break waters.However,surfing reefs are now being constructed in Australia and the United States. These reefs
also help provide coastal protection as research suggests a tendency for sand to build up on the shoreward side
of the reef.

7-Monitoring
Upon maturation, colonisation of artificialreefsleads to the establishment of an ecosystem comparable to
that of rocky sea bed with high structural complexity. In order to understand the functioning of a reef as a
system, all living components, their relationship with the surrounding environment, and all parameters
controlling them within a system need to be taken into account (Harmelin &amp; Bellan-Santinin 1997). In recent
years the planning and construction of artificial habitats has been directed towards more specific objectives,
resulting in a need for the biological sciences to use more specialised methods to quantitatively assess and
monitor habitats when determining if objectives are being met. Any reef developments undertaken in Irish
waters should ensure that ongoing monitoring is atits core;this should also include predeployment monitoring
which is critical for providing baseline data. It is only on the basis of such systematic analysis that a
determination astothe success or failure of an artificialreefcan be made.

8. Applications of Artificial Reefs
The purposes of artificial reefs around the world can be categorised into habitat creation, enhancement,
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restoration or protection. Additionally, structures that are designed for other functions (such as piers and
pontoons) can incidentally serve as artificial reefs. The motivations of different user groups to create artificial
reefsinclude:
• Fishing enhancement – commercial,recreational or artisanal fishing (Baqueiro &amp; Mendez 1994.);
• Tourism / recreational opportunity enhancement – diving, submarine tours (Rhodes et all.1994);
• Science – experimentation and research (experimental tool e.g. patch reefs,translocation experiments,
techniques for management/restoration) (Ortiz-Prosper et al. 2001);
• Mariculture (Bombace 1989.);
• Mitigation / compensation (for habitatloss elsewhere) (Muir et al. 1995; Foster et al. 1994);
• Conservation of biodiversity (e.g. by providing or enhancing habitat for the re- establishment or
enhancement or depleted organisms (e.g.red coral, Corallium rubrum, in Sardinia,Italy (Chessa et al.1993);
• Restoration of damaged habitat (e.g. following ship groundings in the USA (Hudson 2004) or coastal
development in Singapore (Loh &amp; Chou 2004)
• Protection of habitat or control of fishing mortality by using artificial reefs as physical barriers (e.g. to
protect seagrass from trawling and exclude fishing
operations from designated areas in the Mediterranean Sea (Lok et al. 2002; Guillen et al. 1994;
Gomezbuckley &amp; Haroun 1994)
• Protected (no-take) artificialreefs for fisheries restoration purposes, particularly in severely over-fished
areas such as Hong Kong (Pitcher &amp; Seaman 2000; Wilson et al. 2002).
There are three principal sectors involved in the development, deployment and utilisation of reefs
globally. These include artisanal fisheries typically centred in coastal Asia, com mercial fishing, located
in coastal Asia, the eastern Indian Ocean,the Caribbean and northern Mediterranean basins, and the islands of
the South Pacific and recreational fisheries typically found in North America, Australia, and some South
Pacific Islands (Seamen &amp; Sprague, 1991).
Populations of urban coastal communities include economically disadvantaged individuals that rely on
subsistence fishing as a means of nourishment. Shore-based infrastructure such as bridges,jetties, and pilings
provide structural benthic relief utilized by commercially and recreationally important shellfish and finfish
species. The strategic placement of artificial reefs near waterfront infrastructure has the potentialto enhance
shore-based fishing opportunities(Buckley 1982).
The enhancement of commercialfishing activities is a primary function of artificial reefsin the Western
Pacific (Sheehy &amp; Vic 1982). Italy and France have experimented with a number of reef designs used in
support of commercial harvesting of finfish and shellfish species (Bombace 1989).In the United States, most
utilization of artificial reefs by commercial fishermen is restricted to benthic artificial reefs constructed
primarily for use by recreationalfishermen and sport divers. Artificial reef technology has been applied to the
creation of kelp beds, mariculture of shellfish such as oysters and mussels, enhancement of lobster survival, and
harvest of pelagic species (Stone 1985).The concept of artificial reefs as a potential method to enhancing
commercialfishing activity may be appropriatefor species of shellfish,lobster, and finfish, but more research is
necessary before commercialreefs can be implemented on a larger scale.
Marine recreationalfishing activities are extremely popularin both inshore and offshore waters. The types
and degree of saltwaterfishing activitiesthattake place are linked to the quality of the marine resources, and to
the physical resources available to marine anglers in pursuit of these activities. Steinback and Gentner (2001)
estimate the total direct and indirect economic activity generated by marine recreational fisheries in
Massachusetts was $880 million in 1998. They found that about 800,000 anglers participate in marine
recreational fishing, and this number continues to grow. Over 70 different species are landed recreationally in
Massachusetts’ waters. Striped bass, tautog, black sea bass, scup, summer and winter flounder, cod, haddock,
bluefish and tuna are common recreationally targeted finfish species, as well as American lobster and several
shellfish species. Any future artificial reef development efforts must focus on understanding the degree of
fishing effort exerted in different regions, by different usergroups, and on different marine resource populations.

9- Conclusions
A strategy for artificial reef development needs to be formulated for different area. Such plans exist in
other countries: Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Monaco, Spain, Turkey and the USA.The strategy would
need to be developed by an inter- departmental body with representation from a range of government
departments,state agencies, NG Os, maritime organisations and academic institutions.
Monitoring should include pre-deployment monitoring which is criticalfor providing baseline data. Itis
only on the basis of such systematic analysisthat a determination as to the success or failure of an artificialreef
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can be made. Areas to be examined would include: cost benefit analysis, predeployment site analysis,
government certified reef products, design of prefabricated structures, deployment of structures and the fisheries
developed around such structures. A final recommendation would be that artificialreefs area should be utilised
as a site for research into the application of artificial reefs for sea angling, and lobster and crustacean fisheries
development.

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Kadir ALPER
Gaziantep Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Türkçe Eğitimi Bölümü, Gaziantep / Türkiye
Anahtar Kelimeler: Girit, Aşkî, Tasavvuf, Edebiyat.
ÖZET
Giritli Aşkî XVIII. ve XIX. Yüzyıllar arasında yaşamış, eserleriyle tasavvufî geleneğin
devamı hususunda gayret göstermiş olan bir mutasavvıf-şâirdir. İstanbullu Şeyh İbrahim
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divan ve halk edebiyatlarında görülen nazım biçimlerinde 301 adet manzume kaleme almıştır.
Bazı manzumelerin ise ölçüsü ve nazım biçimi belirlenememiştir. Onun divanında kaside
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gibi, kafiye dışında ses benzerliklerinden yararlanarak şiir ahengini oluşturmaya çalıştığı
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gerektiği kadar görülmektedir. Dilinde Eski Anadolu Türkçesi [EAT] ve Çağatay Türkçesine ait
kelimelerin görülmesi de şairin ilgi çeken hususiyetlerindendir. Aşkî‟nin şiirleri, didaktik ve lirik
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çağından yakınmış, rind ü melamet meşrebi gereğince gösteriş ve şekilcilikten kurtulup öze
dönüşü, samimi olmayı arzulamıştır. Kendisi, Kâdirî tarikatına mensup bir şâir olduğu halde
Alevî-meşrep çizgide yer alan söylemiyle dikkati çekmektedir. Ayrıca yine söz konusu
çevrelerde daha çok görülen edebî türlerde kaleme aldığı manzumeleri, Sünnî- Alevî etkileşimini
somut olarak belgeleyen örneklerdendir. Giritli Aşkî‟nin, şiirlerinden anlaşıldığı üzere Fuzulî,
Bâkî, Yunus Emre, Niyâzî-i Mısrî, Nesimî, Molla Câmî, Urfî gibi şâir ve mutasavvıflardan
etkilendiği görülmektedir. Böyle bir etkileşimle meydana getirdiği divanı ve diğer eserleriye şair,
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                    <text>GIS Integration And Evolution Into The Albanian System Education And Market
Hysenaj, M 1, Barjami, R. 2
1University of Shkodër, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, Shkodër,
Albania
2University of Durrës, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Department of Economy, Durrës,
Albania
E –mails: medjonhysenaj@hotmail.com, rezartabarjami@hotmail.com
Abstract
This paper offers a general overview of GIS integration as a curricula and technology in the
Albanian Education System. Basically it presents the evolution history of this technology, the
development environment and the efforts of a closer approach to the state and private
institutions. A detailed analysis will be performed between the growing market needs in
Albania for GIS utilities and the handicap due to the lack of experts in geospatial technology.
Results of a questionnaire survey in the university areas will be presented, where students
expressed their approach to GIS technology. The need to build a complete chain of GIS
curricula beginning from secondary school level up to graduate and master programms is
necessary to be accomplished. Many problematic fields in Albania like flood management,
population census, transport, urbanization, pollution, turism, illegal constructions, professional orientation, etc which are subjects of topic interest in many universitary courses require
the use of GIS utilities. In this article it is discussed the position of GIS in the university
system and the major efforts departments must carry out in increasing interaction between
each other followed by a substantial intervention of the proper government institutions to the
benefit of GIS development. “Albania in the age of internet” is the latest reform the
government is implementing, with the scope of informing young people mainly in rural areas
to develop ICT infrastructure basically in public schools and state offices, which will have a
powerful impact in GIS developing technology in Albania.
Keywords: Gis, education, university, technology, department, curricula
1.INTRODUCTION
The role of higher education is to assist students in becoming effective thinkers with the
knowledge and skills that will lead them toward becoming meaningful contributors to society
[9]. Today, more and more schools are including GIS in their curricula to help their students
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�gain valuable background knowledge and skills which they need to face global challenges.
Three are the main reasons GIS has known a rapid development in Albania especially in the
last years; education, internet and the growing market needs for geospatial data. For each of
these categories we are going to present a full picture containing their weak and strong points.
Meanwhile other countries had a faster approach to GIS technology, in Albania we found the
first signs of GIS usage about eighteen years ago. The first institution that decided to embrace
the implementation of a GIS system was the Science Geographic Academy of Albania in
1994, followed by the department of Geography near the University of Tirana in 1999 as a
single course part of the undergraduate program. Even though at a slow pace GIS profile has
evolved since then. Nowadays GIS is integrated as a single course in the undergraduate
program in the Universities of Shkodra and Gjirokastra in the departments of Geography,
Architecture and Urban Planning, Geodesy, Computer Sciences and Geology departments in
the university of Tirana, but it still remains part of the undergraduate program.
Once again the department of Geography in Tirana advanced forward by integrating GIS
subject as part of a graduate program at the Proffessional Master level. But we have to ask
ourself: Is that enough? How come that besides the great potential this technology affords,
the vast usage in some of the crucial sectors governments dispose, the known advantages in
the education field in enforcing group collaboration, increasing students creatitvity and
interactivity, offering methodologies in gathering, analyzing and outputting data, coming to
concrete results and conclusions, building complex reports and diagrams in a short time
period, helping decision-making and understanding situations, enlarging human knowledge in
an upper level, institutions in Albania are still doubtful in approaching this technology. Today
more than ever Albania is facing specific circumstances that require GIS implementation in
finding solutions and also helping decision-making.
2.GIS Education in Albania
Geographic Information Systems in higher education provide an integrated solution to assist
faculties and students with their educational goals. The advance of GIS has opened up
millions of employment opportunities. More than 3,000 colleges and universities have
developed excellent courses and certificate and degree programs in GIS [10]. GIS has a vast
extent starting from government level down to municipality or commune. In the state
universities of Albania GIS is introduced only as a single general course called Geographical
Information Systems, including this way a compressed program that many times results to be
inadequate to be acquired by students. The main reason of this phenomenon is the fact that
GIS is developed only at a single level in the Albanian Education Institutions which is the
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�state university. The lack of the subject development at the secondary school level is the
primary reason of such a handicap. The major problem is the lack of geospatial information.
In Albania only few institutions have operational GIS databases. We are facing the fact that
mostly of geographic data is owned by private agencies for their personal needs, using
inconsistent data which is mostly not updated. Inadequate development of geospatial
technology is also closely connected with the evolution of computer science. In 2009, as
reported in Figure 1, among 9478 students graduated in public universities, only 171
belonged to computer science profile [5].

Figure 1: Computer Science attendance toward (compared) other fields
Still, it remains determinant the increasing role the government is playing through substantial
reforms which aim to develop internet utilities in a large scale environment in Albania. The
results are optimistic, during the last two years in the department of Informatic in the
University of Tirana the number of students applying for computer science increased from 70
to 500 students.
Departments can and should integrate into their annual programs GIS course. The stimulation
point can be succeeded by orienting GIS utilities into the current problematic situations.
Departments can find it easier te embrace geospatial technology as a solution possibility to
their barriers. Biology department can benefit from GIS by studying the degradation process
the lake of Shkoder is facing day after day, accompanied by radical changes in vegetation and
animal life. Geography department can better approach analysis to flood management in the
districts of Shkoder and Lezha. Inundations have become endemic to the region, causing
huge economic and social damages [8]. On the other side transport problems, pollution,
illegal construction, minerary, deforestation, urbanization, population census are only a few
of the many topics that can use GIS as an analytical tool in their specific scientific discipline
by the respective departments in the Albanian Universities.
Dealing with geospatial data is strictly connected with terrain practice. This way we can
develop students concept and knowledge about GIS structure and give a sense to their
theoretical conceptions. Unfortunately we have not reached this stage, which remarks us
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�(specialists of the field) the essential task of digitizing the Albanian territory with updated
geospatial information [1]. First of all this process needs the government enrollment which
must be the primary support in fulfilling this mission basically by covering finanacial, logistic
and technical aspect. Second it is important the collaboration between universities and private
agencies offering their field experts. Actually laboratory practices are limited up to data
manipulation and not data creation. Which means that we do not have the proper conditions
to accomplish a full map process including data collection, data processing and output.
Another problematic situation students have to face is the lack of teaching materials. Actually
there are only a few books translated into Albanian language that address topics connected to
GIS. These books contain basic GIS principles, technical and management issues, remote
sensing, digital mapping.
A set of surveys, as shown in Figure 2 and 3, involving 1000 students were made. The
outcome of this surveys intended to define the relation between their approach toward GIS as
a concept and GIS utilities.

Figure 2: Results of approach toward Web Pages based on GIS Software
The results were very interesting. In the first survey students were asked to mention three of
their most used web sites. The top five were ranked. Interestingly “Google Map” is among
these web sites. Which means that students are looking forward to interact with dynamic
maps and not just navigate in the internet. Also these students where asked about their
knowledge of the term GIS. From the results we see that 87% of them didn’t know what GIS
meant, 11% were familiar to the concept and only 2% of them had the chance to use GIS
utilities. This is a meaningful contrast to the fact that students use GIS applications like
Google Map, Google Earth, etc but are not aware of the concept of dynamic maps.
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�Figure 3: GIS integration into the University Environment
According to statistics it results that among many annual conferences that take place in
Albania none of them refers to Geographic Information Systems as a primary field or topic to
relay on. This induce the necessity of paying greater attention by the departments in
introducing step by step GIS as a modern and undisputed technology. Gradually it is
neccesary to start from several national conferences followed by international ones. Also
another issue is the fact that students prefer to avoid GIS profile subjects as a possible theme
during their master thesis (either professional or scientific) defending. So far no such thesis
has been deposited near the departments archive. This is another delicate point which requires
the intervention of the Ministry of Education (MASH).
3.GIS Exploitation Environment
The Albanian population and Housing census held in October 2011 after ten years from the
last one (2001) is another determinant factor in evolving geospatial technology. The overall
objective of the project is to contribute to the strengthening of the Albanian statistical system.
In Albania the need for a census is perhaps greater than anywhere else, and the extracted
information will be of great importance to many departments subjects like geography,
statistic, history, engineering, politic, etc. It will have an immediate effect on policies, but it
will also provide material for further profound studies. GIS is the perfect platform to hold,
manage and analyze all the data, also to produce important diagrams and reports reflecting
the geographical distribution of the population in Albania in the recent years. According to
statistics it is thought that during January 2011 Albanian finally passed from a rural to urban
country. There is also an important evolution in fertility, since on average families nowdays
have fewer children than before. The profound changes in the health system also have had its
effects on the age distribution. The outcome of the census will answer many important
questions on various issues. This way GIS turns out to be the perfect tool that will finally
integrate these data into dynamic maps which with allow us not only make parallelisms
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�between periods but also produce better results in comparison to the previous used softwares
like Excel, etc.
After flood inundation in Shkoder during 2010, 2011 from the World Bank has been granted
a fund of €50.000 for the construction of the laboratory of researches for natural hazards
management which will be administrated by the department of Geography in the University
of Shkoder. The scope of the laboratory is intended not only for research, acquisition,
integration, management, analysis and presentation of spatial data but also to provide for the
students suitable conditions for developing their theoretical and practical background on
advanced GIS technologies. This is the first project to be initiated under the survey of an
academic institution for an important issue such as flood rather than any government unit.
This trend aims to be a future incentive for other departments to create a parallel operating
level system with those supervised by the ministery. On the other hand it puts in evidence the
need for re-training teachers to integrate their concepts and technology into the spatial
decision process.
4.GIS Market in Albania
In Albania, as shown in Figure 4, there are 38 private universities and 11 state universities
which make a total of 49 universities for a population of 3.2 million. According to statistics
[5] for the last 10 years more than 65 thousand students graduated but only 16 thousand could
get employed. This category tend to manage mainly through small private business activities
in a competitive environment which requires high qualification and effective performance in
retreiving valuable information from the sorrounding area, save traces of where customers or
other competitive businesses are distributed, plan a marketing campaign, optimize sales
territory, etc. Due to this situation GIS course turns out to be a sustainable support to their
background knowledges which will lead them to a successful performance.
GIS allows interactivity, querying, makes us understand better and evaluate the data by
creating graphical presentation through information derived from databases [1]. The
economic crisis that has affected the world in recent years has made it possible for many
organizations to restructure their operating practices. Many of these businesses are aware of
finding new ways to develop their activities, primarily through internal sources. Now is the
time to invest in geographic information systems, a solution that has helped many
organizations to overcome their operational challenges and increase profits.

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�Figure 4: Private University development (2003-2011)
Source: INSTAT
According to statistics only in private universities we find 229 curriculas included into
different levels of programs like Bachelor, Master of Science or Proffesional Master. The
contrast in this scenario is that during the last five years the number of private universities in
Albania has almost decuplicated but none of them offers a GIS course.
Many of the Albanian private universities have close connections with homologue Europian
Universities including student professional exchange, mutual experience exchange, revealing
a clear tendency in strictly approaching their way of management and administration of the
study process. Despite everything it is clearly visible their policy consists in avoiding
geoscience subjects. Regardless their vision they stand as business institutions which try to
find the best products to offer to the market. Being the first to understand the major market
needs, private institutions insist in neglecting GIS potential in the Albanian mart. They focus
on social and economic curriculas which actually are easier to integrate and adopt rather than
hazard to involve students into a course that still suffers from government indifference in
launching this “product” on the market and at the same time simulate private companies in
embracing the idea of GIS position.
This scenario reflects their pessimistic point of view according to GIS technology. Their
choice not to introduce GIS into their curricula makes us believe that although GIS usage in
Albania has evolved and has found more space in the Albanian market than before, private
university boards are still doubtful of its real capabilities and potential.

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�Up to now Albanian market has been handled from a range of people that have been a kind of
“forced-adopted” experts in environment conditions who suffered from the lack of real geoinformatic experts. That’s why very often geospatial tasks have been performed from
geographers who had little informatic knowledge or vice-versa from technic informaticians
who held the responsibility to manipulate and manage geographic information, producing a
range of non-professional results.
Nowadays the market in Albania is eager in finding new human resources specialised in
geospatial information management which can help them solve many important issues getting
away from simple techniques used lately. The Digital Albania program is one of the many
future projects that require GIS experts. State institutions like the prefecture, municipality,
commune, private organizations and many other NPO’s are more than ever aware about the
great importance of dynamic maping and satellite imageries, followed by the integration of
these concepts and technology into the spatial decision making processes in the country.
Especially last years Albanian institutions faced a vigorous interaction with Europian
agencies. Many funds have been granted with the scope of developing research projects
towards problematics affecting Albania. Many of these projects need accurate data of the
territory mainly geospatial information. This leads to an increasing demand for dynamic
maps and as a result of GIS utilities.
5.Internet Evolution
The evolution of GIS in Albanian has been strictly connected to the evolution of Internet. The
number of Internet users is an important indicator because it reflects the spread of
information technology in one place, and information exchange globally [1]. Actually
Albanian government is following a strong policy named “Albania in the age of the internet”,
which aims to push Albania among the countries with the highest internet usage in Europe.
This has caused an immediate affect not only in the extend of internet distribution but also in
laboratory equipments. Internet conditions as speed, availability, price and professionalism
had a great improvement. Also almost all secondary schools have been equipped with new
laboratories. This has caused a closer approach to the internet as far as the students are
concerned, and online softwares like “Google Earth”, “Google Map”, or Esri applications
which only a couple of years ago were unknown for many people, now have turned familiar,
easy to use and manage.

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�The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published a global report according to which
Albania has improved its global ranking of The Networked Readiness Index 2012 by 19
places within a year positioning itself in the 68-th place gaining the right ta be part among the
ten most improved countries in the NRI. This index has been calculated based on four
primary sub-indexes which are: the regulatory-politic for the information technology,
improvement of digital infrastructure; management of e-skills and services; using information
technology by the population, biznes or government units; social and economic impact.
Technology primary sub-index sectors (Comparative level 2011-2012)

Rank
Increase

Political and regulatory environment for the information technology, infrastructure
Management of e-skills and services

13
24

Using information technology by the population, biznes or government units

17

Social and economic impact of the technology

18

Figure 5: Technology profile sectors, increase position, (2011-2012)
Source: World Economic Forum: Albania
The Internet and Communication Technology sector is rapidly expanding in Albania because
it is both a stand-alone sector as well as a cross-cutting enabling technology for other
industries [11]. Basically we have the neccesary tools to aim at developing GIS image in the
market and institutional levels. Another element of minor impact in the development of GIS
technology is the integration of GPS systems through a law recently approved in Albania by
which the custom duties for cars has been removed. This way the percentage of imported cars
produced recent years has increased rapidly, most of these cars have GPS systems included.
6.CONCLUSIONS
Due to many indicative factors in the past geospatial technology missed the evolution
backbone in Albania. The integration process walked through small steps which didn’t show
to be determinant. The set of surveys show that the environment is ready for approaching this
technology. Conditions are already mature, the increasing role the government is playing
through substantial reforms toward internet extension, the vast expansion of educative
institutions like private universities followed by the growing market needs for geospatial data
and experts, creates the perfect circumstances for a sustainable GIS development.
On the other hand the primary role in the integration process must be played by public
universities. A series of steps need to be taken, beginning from a deeper interest from MASH
in giving the right priority by increasing universities funds in building modern GIS
laboratory, which is the backbone to start every GIS project in the future. By doing this
universities have the obligation to increase collaboration between each other for the benefit of
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�GIS development. It is necessary to build a continuos chain of GIS curriculum programs
starting from secondary school, followed by several courses during undergraduate and
especially graduate programs, ending with a closer approach of the students side during their
thesis defending. To achieve a full education process a final step must be taken, including
these students in training programms near GIS departments in countries with more experience
in the field. Only by accomplishing this cicle we will be able to set the knowledge of these
students into a higher level and make them able to build the future platform of Albanian GIS
experts.
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