Environmental planning strategies for optimum solid waste landfill siting

Sains Malaysiana

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 457-462

  Sumiani, Y ^a   Onn, C C ^a   Mohd Din, M A ^a   Wan Jaafar, W Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Geographic information system; Impact analysis: life cycle assessment; Landfill siting

Indexed keywords

EID: 76049115295     PISSN: 01266039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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