Siting MSW landfill using weighted linear combination and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) methodology in GIS environment (case study: Karaj)

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 912-920

  Moeinaddini, Mazaher ^a   Khorasani, Nematollah ^a   Danehkar, Afshin ^a   Darvishsefat, Ali Asghar ^a   zienalyan, Mehdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPLEX PROCESSES; LAND SUITABILITY; LANDFILL SITE; LANDFILL SITING; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MSW LANDFILLS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; PRIORITIZATION; RANKING OF ALTERNATIVES; SPATIAL CLUSTER; STUDY AREAS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LAND FILL; SITE SELECTION;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GIS; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDFILL; MAPPING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CASE STUDY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECISION MAKING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRAN; LAND USE; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SITING; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEIGHTED LINEAR COMBINATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; IRAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

IRAN; KARAJ; TEHRAN [IRAN];

EID: 77950367522     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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