Regional hospital solid waste assessment using the evidential reasoning approach

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 441, Issue , 2012, Pages 67-76

  Abed Elmdoust, Armaghan ^a   Kerachian, Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Evidential reasoning (ER); Hospital solid waste assessment; Multiple criteria decision analysis; Uncertainty modeling; Utility

Indexed keywords

EVIDENTIAL REASONING; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY MODELING; UTILITY; WASTE ASSESSMENT;

HOSPITALS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SOLID WASTES;

DECISION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLID WASTE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL WASTE; IRAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLID WASTE; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT;

HOSPITALS; IRAN; MEDICAL WASTE; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

IRAN; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 84868244298     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.09.050     Document Type: Article

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