This article presents an assessment of the most suitable compressed air energy storage (CAES) reservoirs and facilities to better integrate renewable into electricity grid. The novelty this study resides in selecting best CAES reservoir sites through application a multi-criteria decision aid (MCDA) tool, specifically simple additive weighting (SAW) method. Besides using geographic information s...

Montenegro has different influences on the weather and climate; in general, according to Köppen’s classification, there are two climate zones: warm temperate (C) cold (D). The aim of this study is determine susceptibility wildfires Montenegrin coastal municipality Budva northern Rožaje, which located climatic conditions, using multicriteria GIS decision analysis (GIS-MCDA). Nine natural anthrop...

This contribution is a summary of several conclusions drawn from discussions with some of the speakers and participants of the MCDA’74 Meeting (October 2011, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland). In it, we explore the reasons for integrating MCDA and GIS and give an overview of the concrete works that have been achieved, the tools that are available and their use. This is not meant to be a state of ...

In Brazil, the disposal of construction and demolition waste (CDW) quite often occurs in inadequate places, resulting social, economic, environmental problems. This reflects need for selecting appropriate areas this type waste. These must follow local standards regulations to protect human health environment. Considering that, study is intended indicate potentially suitable CDW landfill deploym...

in recent decades, as a result of population growth, industrial developments, scarcity of sources, etc. more attention has been paid to spatial planning. spatial planning needs the consideration of different goals, scenarios, criterions and constraints, which leads us to the usage of spatial multi-criteria decision analysis (mcda) methods. the mail goal of this research is to develop a novel mo...

The rehabilitation of contaminated sites involves several considerations in terms of environmental, technological and socio-economic aspects. A decision support system becomes therefore necessary in order to manage problem complexity and to define effective rehabilitation interventions. DESYRE (Decision Support sYstem for Rehabilitation of contaminated sites) is a software system which integrat...

A pressing question that arises during the planning of an ecological restoration process is: where to restore first? Answering this question is a complex task; it requires a multidimensional approach to consider economic constrains and the preferences of stakeholders. Being the problem of spatial nature, it may be explored effectively through Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) performed in ...

Decision support systems (DSS) that are simple, spatial, flexible, non-deterministic and have a long track record of practical application in a policy environment have until recently been uncommon. There has been a rapid expansion in the development and description of both quantitative and soft system methods that can be applied to decision-making processes and many of these have application in...

The main purpose of this study was to assess and rank suitable shallow aquifers for the implementation a solar-PV desalination system (SmaIrriCube) in small-scale farms arid semi-arid Mediterranean regions, such as Tunisia. A GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA-GIS) model developed. SMART method applied evaluate relative importance criteria Weighted Sum Model used generate suitabil...

in the way of finding economic and tolerable plant to the arid and semi-arid climatic conditions and prevent desertification in these areas, this study aims to assess agro-climatic suitability for producing saffron in east-azerbaijan province based on geographic information system (gis) spatial analysis technique. for this goal, several criteria including soil conditions, climatological indicat...