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2019 (English)In: Environmental Science and Pollution Research, ISSN 0944-1344, E-ISSN 1614-7499, Vol. 26, no 35, p. 35325-35339Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Landfill site`s selection represents a complicated process due to the large number of variables to be adopted. In this study, an arid area (Babylon Governorate as a case study) was selected. It is located in the middle region of Iraq. In this area, the landfills do not satisfy the required international criteria. Fifteen of the most significant criterion were selected for this purpose. For suitable weight for each criterion, the multi criteria decision making (MCDM) methods were applied. These methods are AHP and RSW. In the GIS software 10.5, the raster maps of the chosen criterion were arranged and analysed. The method of change detection was implemented to determine the matching pixels and non-matching pixels. The final results showed that there are two candidate locations for landfills for each district in the governorate (ten sites). The areas of the selected sites were sufficient to contain the cumulative quantity of solid waste from 2020 until 2030.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2019
Keywords
MCDM, Change Detection, RSW, AHP, Landfill siting
National Category
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Research subject
Soil Mechanics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-73400 (URN)10.1007/s11356-019-05064-7 (DOI)000507276300005 ()31044377 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85065255296 (Scopus ID)
Note
Validerad;2020;Nivå 2;2020-01-03 (johcin)
2019-04-032019-04-032025-02-07Bibliographically approved