Regional non-hazardous landfill site selection by integrating fuzzy logic, AHP and geographic information systems

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-131

  Donevska, Katerina R ^a   Gorsevski, Pece V ^b   Jovanovski, Milorad ^a   Peševski, Igor ^a  

^a SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Fuzzy logic; GIS; Landfill; Multiple criteria evaluation; Site selection

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON MATRIX; ECONOMIC CONCERNS; ECONOMIC DECISIONS; ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES; FUZZY MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; HIERARCHY MODELS; LANDFILL SITE; LANDFILL SITE SELECTION; LEGAL REQUIREMENTS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MACEDONIA; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTICRITERIA DECISION; MULTIPLE-CRITERIA EVALUATION; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SET THEORY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SITE SELECTION;

LAND FILL;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN UNION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; LANDFILL; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SITE SELECTION; STANDARDIZATION;

MACEDONIA [SOUTHERN EUROPE];

EID: 84865777964     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1485-y     Document Type: Article

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