Suitability analysis for siting MSW landfills and its multicriteria spatial decision support system: Method, implementation and case study

Waste Management

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1190-1206

  Demesouka, O E ^a   Vavatsikos, A P ^a   Anagnostopoulos, K P ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Compromise programming methods; Geographical information systems (GIS); MC SDSS; Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills; Site selection

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); COMPROMISE PROGRAMMING; CONFLICTING OBJECTIVES; MC-SDSS; MULTI-CRITERIA SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS; SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; RESEARCH; SITE SELECTION; URBAN PLANNING;

LAND FILL;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GIS; LANDFILL; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; LAND USE; LANDFILL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL TEXTURE; WATER SUPPLY; WETLAND;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT; EXPERT SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GREECE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLID WASTE;

GREECE; THRACE;

EID: 84877614126     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2013.01.030     Document Type: Article

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