Landfill site selection and landfill liner design for Ankara, Turkey

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2729-2752

  Yal, Gözde Pinar ^a   Akgün, Haluk ^b  

^a SDS Enerji A   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Analytical Hierarchy Method (AHP); Geotechnical properties of Ankara clay; Landfill site selection; Pairwise Comparison Method (PCM); Sincan, Ankara; The Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHIES; ANKARA CLAY; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; LANDFILL SITE SELECTION; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; SINCAN, ANKARA;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SITE SELECTION;

LAND FILL;

CLAY; DECISION MAKING; GIS; GROWTH RATE; LANDFILL LINER; LINEAMENT; POPULATION GROWTH; SITE SELECTION; SLOPE; VEGETATION COVER; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ANKARA [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 84886773202     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2334-y     Document Type: Article

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