A Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System Development for Siting a Landfill in the Province of Torino (Italy)

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 231-252

  Ferretti, Valentina ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analytic Network Process; Geographic Information Systems; Land suitability analysis; Multicriteria Analysis; Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support Systems; Waste management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986236001     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.493     Document Type: Article

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