Integrating and Utilizing AHP and GIS for Landfill Site Selection

Feasibility Study of GIS and AHP Techniques in Site Selection for Pedestranization towards Urban Regeneration

Landfill site selection for municipal solid waste with combining SWARA technique and COPRAS method using GIS (Case study: Kermanshah, Iran)

The selection of municipal solid waste landfills is significant because it controls environmental pollution and its problems. Since site selection is a time-consuming and multifaceted process involving various socio-economic and environmental parameters, it requires expert opinion, extensive information resources, and multi-criteria methods. Therefore, this study was carried out for landfill si...

Wastewater treatment plant site selection using AHP and GIS: a case study in Falavarjan, Esfahan

This paper presents the criteria and applied methods in the screening of potential sites for the wastewater treatment plant of the Falavarjan district, northwest of Esfahan province. For this the nine parameters that were selected as main criteria, 7 parameters were considered to define the buffer zones in the natural and artificial terrains. At the first stage of the study, unsuitable zones we...

Landfill Site Selection

In terms of the Integrated Waste Management approach, progressive authorities are making concerted efforts to reduce the amount of waste that goes to their landfills for final disposal. Notwithstanding this, waste disposal by landfill remains the way in which almost all waste in African and other developing counties is currently disposed. This is also the case in many developed countries. Conse...

Combining Fuzzy AHP with GIS and Decision Rules for Industrial Site Selection