Urban sewage sludge, sustainability, and transition for Eco-City: Multi-criteria sustainability assessment of technologies based on best-worst method

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 116, Issue , 2017, Pages 29-39

  Ren, Jingzheng ^a,b   Liang, Hanwei ^a   Chan, Felix T S ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Best worst method; Multi criteria decision making; Sum weighted method; Sustainability assessment; TOPSIS; Urban sewage sludge

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HEALTH RISKS; INCINERATION; SEWAGE SLUDGE; WASTE INCINERATION;

BEST-WORST METHOD; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; TOPSIS; WEIGHTED METHOD;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTE TECHNOLOGY; WASTE TREATMENT;

EID: 85028238549     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.070     Document Type: Article

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