Capacity planning for electronic waste management facilities under uncertainty: Multi-objective multi-time-step model development

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 694-709

  Ahluwalia, Poonam Khanijo ^a   Nema, Arvind K ^b  

^a Tata Consulting Engineers   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; electronic waste; multi objective optimization; risk; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY PLANNING; DECISION SUPPORT MODELS; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES; OPTIMUM CONFIGURATIONS; OPTIMUM LOCATION; PERCEIVED RISK; UNCERTAINTY; WASTE GENERATION; WASTE STREAM;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HEALTH RISKS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTES;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEALTH RISK; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; RISK PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; ELECTRONIC WASTE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CITIES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ELECTRONIC WASTE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; TIME FACTORS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

INDIA;

EID: 79959878693     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X10382592     Document Type: Article

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