Integrated sustainability assessments: A spatial multicriteria evaluation for siting a waste incinerator plant in the Province of Torino (Italy)

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 843-867

  Ferretti, Valentina ^a   Pomarico, Silvia ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analytic Network Process; Geographical information systems; Land suitability analysis; Multicriteria analysis; Multicriteria spatial decision support systems; Waste management

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GIS; INCINERATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND USE PLANNING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NATIONAL PLANNING; PLANNING SYSTEM; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; TORINO [PIEDMONT];

EID: 84865827698     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-012-9354-8     Document Type: Article

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