Evaluating water management practice for sustainable mining

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 414-433

  Zhang, Xiangfeng ^a,b   Gao, Lei ^b   Barrett, Damian ^b   Chen, Yun ^b  

^a SHANGHAI DIANJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Decision making; Fuzzy TOPSIS; Mine water management; Multi criteria evaluation; Sustainability; Sustainable mining

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROUNDWATER; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; MINE FLOODING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER CONSERVATION;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); FUZZY TOPSIS; MINE WATERS; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION; SUSTAINABLE MINING;

WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MINE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA; BOWEN BASIN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84894844350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6020414     Document Type: Article

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