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The use of MCDA and GIS for hazardous waste landfill siting considering the shortage of land for waste disposal

Authors

De Feo G., De Gisi S. Year 2014

Pubblication type

Paper International Journal with referee

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to develop a procedure that minimizes the wasting of space for the siting of hazardous waste landfills as part of a solid waste management system. We wanted to tackle the shortage of land for waste disposal that is a serious and growing problem in most large urban regions. The procedure combines a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach with a geographical information system (GIS). The GIS was utilised to obtain an initial screening in order to eliminate unsuitable areas, whereas the MCDA was developed to select the most suitable sites. The novelty of the proposed siting procedure is the introduction of a new screening phase before the macro-siting step aimed at producing a 'land use map of potentially suitable areas' for the siting of solid waste facilities which simultaneously takes into consideration all plant types. The issue of obtaining sites evaluations of a specific facility was coupled with the issue of not wasting land appropriate to facilitate other types of waste management options. In the developed case study, the use of an innovative criteria weighting tool (the 'Priority Scale') in combination with the Analytic Hierarchy Process was useful to easier define the priorities of the evaluation criteria in comparison with other classic methods such as the Paired Comparison Technique in combination with the Simple Additive Weighting method.

Reference

De Feo G., De Gisi S. (2014),
Waste Management, Available online 4 July 2014, DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.05.028

WEB Reference

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X14002591

WEB Reference 2

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263700145_Using_MCDA_and_GIS_for_hazardous_waste_landfill_siting_considering_land_scarcity_for_waste_disposal?ev=prf_pub

Research unit

TIGRI

LastUpdate

28/07/2014