GIS-based multicriteria municipal solid waste landfill suitability analysis: A review of the methodologies performed and criteria implemented

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 270-296

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

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Geographical information systems; landfill siting; multicriteria analysis; site selection criteria; suitability analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LAND FILL; MODELS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; SITE SELECTION;

CONFLICTING OBJECTIVES; LANDFILL SITING; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS; SELECTION CRITERIA; SUITABILITY ANALYSIS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER; SOLID WASTE;

DECISION MAKING; GIS; LANDFILL; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SITE SELECTION;

AIR POLLUTION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; COST; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOLOGY; HYDROGRAPHY; LAND USE; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOIL TEXTURE; STANDARDIZATION; TEMPERATURE; WATER SUPPLY; ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES;

EID: 84899078994     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X14526632     Document Type: Review

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