Improving petroleum contaminated land remediation decision-making through the MCA weighting process

Chemosphere

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 791-798

  Balasubramaniam, Anopama ^a   Boyle, Alexander Rohan ^a   Voulvoulis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ELECTRE III; Participatory method; Stakeholder participation; Swing weighting; Weighted Summation

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DECISION MAKING; WATER POLLUTION;

PARTICIPATORY METHOD; STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION; SWING WEIGHTING; WEIGHTED SUMMATION;

SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL;

PETROLEUM;

CONTAMINATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DECISION MAKING; SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER POLLUTION;

DECISION MAKING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PETROLEUM; REMEDIATION;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CONSENSUS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH HAZARD; SOIL POLLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WEIGHT;

EID: 33751234179     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.06.039     Document Type: Article

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