Evaluation of groundwater vulnerability to pollution using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 8405-8424

  Şener, Erhan ^a   Şener, Şehnaz ^a  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; Groundwater vulnerability; uhut

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; FERTILIZERS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

AQUIFER CONTAMINATION; AQUIFER VULNERABILITY; CONTAMINATION POTENTIALS; FERTILIZER APPLICATIONS; FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY; PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; URBANIZATION; VULNERABILITY; WATER SUPPLY;

AFYON; TURKEY;

EID: 84929953553     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-4001-3     Document Type: Article

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