Evaluating health-care waste treatment technologies using a hybrid multi-criteria decision making model

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 932-942

  Liu, Hu Chen ^a,b   You, Jian Xin ^a,b   Lu, Chao ^a   Chen, Yi Zeng ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decision making trial and evaluation; Fuzzy sets; Health care waste management; laboratory (DEMATEL); MULTIMOORA method

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; WASTE TREATMENT;

2-TUPLE; 2-TUPLES; DECISION-MAKING TRIAL AND EVALUATION; DECISIONS MAKINGS; DEMATEL; HEALTH-CARE WASTE MANAGEMENT; LABORATORY (DEMATEL); MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING MODELS; MULTIMOORA METHOD; TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84907487416     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.08.061     Document Type: Review

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