Identification of hazardous waste landfill site: A case study from Zanjan province, Iran

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1763-1776

  Khamehchiyan, Mashalah ^a   Nikoudel, Mohammad Reza ^a   Boroumandi, Mehdi ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Geographic information system; Landfill site selection; Multiple criteria analysis; Simple additive weighting; Suitability index

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; DEVELOPING CITIES; ESSENTIAL SUPPORT; HAZARDOUS WASTE LANDFILLING; HAZARDOUS WASTE LANDFILLS; HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT; INPUT LAYERS; LANDFILL ENGINEERING; LANDFILL SITE; LANDFILL SITE SELECTION; LOCAL AUTHORITIES; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; SIMPLE ADDITIVE WEIGHTING; STUDY AREAS; SUITABILITY INDEX;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SITE SELECTION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

LAND FILL;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIS; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LANDFILL; PEDOLOGY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

IRAN; ZANJAN;

EID: 81055157171     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1023-y     Document Type: Article

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