Municipal solid waste landfill site selection using Multi-Criteria Decision Making and GIS: case study of Bursa province

• Published in: Journal of environmental engineering and landscape management Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 107 - 119
• Main Authors: Yildirim, Volkan, Memisoglu, Tugba, Bediroglu, Sevket, Colak, H. Ebru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vilnius Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 01.06.2018
• Subjects: Bursa; Climate change; Contamination; Decision making; Developing countries; Economic development; Economics; Geographic information systems; Geographical information systems; GIS; Global warming; Industrialization; Information systems; Landfill; Landfills; LDCs; Location; MCDM; Multiple criterion; Municipal landfills; Municipal solid waste; Municipal waste management; Population growth; Sanitary landfills; Site selection; solid waste; Solid waste disposal; Solid waste management; Statistical analysis; Statistical methods; TOPSIS; Waste disposal; Waste disposal sites; Waste management; Waste management industry; Water pollution; Water resources; Turkey; GIS; MCDM; Bursa; TOPSIS; solid waste; landfill

Rapid population growth, economic development and industrialization have created many problems related to municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in developing countries like Turkey. Solid waste disposal has become mandatory because of increasingly common factors such as global warming and contamina...