While a large literature exists on the siting of controversial facilities, few theories about spatial location have been tested on large samples. Using a new dataset from Japan, this paper demonstrates that state agencies choose localities judged weakest in local civil society as host communities for controversial projects. In some cases, powerful politicians deliberately seek to have facilitie...

Historically, landfills have been the dominant alternative for the ultimate disposal of municipal solid waste. This paper addresses the problem of siting a new landfill using an intelligent system based on fuzzy inference. The proposed system can accommodate new information on the landfill site selection by updating its knowledge base. Several factors are considered in the siting process includ...

This paper presents a new approach for the optimal facility siting considering the uncertainty of toxic release in one of the installed facilities. The proposed formulation incorporates the effect of wind speed, wind direction and atmospheric stability to calculate the risk of death via probit functions and Monte Carlo simulation. The overall problem is initially modeled as a disjunctive progra...

Positioning of intermodal terminals is of key importance since it affects the very investment into the terminal, ecological, physical issues and the costs of the operation of individual terminals. Detailed analysis has to be performed by decision-making regarding the siting of intermodal terminals. The work analyzes the relevant criteria necessary for the siting of intermodal terminals. The pro...

Wind farm micro-siting is a complex process that requires multidisciplinary analysis and optimization. The problem consists not only of positioning the wind turbines in the locations within the site that have the most wind energy potential, but also it has to minimize wake interference between turbines. This means that usually the sum of the expected isolated turbines is less than the actual pe...

The issues of optimizing regional pricing are especially acute for the Kaliningrad Region due to its exclave features. At same time, cost energy resources has become one main in making managerial decisions. Recently, so-called Technoparks have new forms organizing production process a certain branch industry, or that is at junction several branches. There variety descriptions indisputable advan...

Solid waste represents a key issue that threatens environmental quality in Egyptian urban areas. One of the most viable options to treat such an issue is to incinerate the collected solid waste for electricity generation, which can reduce the cost of solid waste disposal as well as pollution and generate surplus energy. Selecting appropriate site for a solid waste incineration power plant is a ...