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GIS and multi-criteria analysis to select potential sites of agro-industrial complex

Authors: Houda Sahnoun, Mohamed Moncef Serbaji, Boubaker Karray, Khaled Medhioub

Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Issue 8/2012

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The selection of the potential sites to the creation of an agro-industrial complex requires a large amount of spatial information. Geographical information systems are capable of managing this information, providing the ability to integrate multiple layers of information and deriving new ones. This study incorporates environmental, social, economic, geological and infrastructural data. A multi-criteria analysis is performed to select the potential sites to the creation of an agro-industrial complex in the city of Sfax (the southern coast of Tunisia). The comparison by pair method adopted in this paper, based on a linear combination pondered after having assigned to every factor of decision a coefficient of level-headedness, creates many scenarios among which we selected the sustainable development one. This scenario assigned the highest weight to the economical, environmental and social factors (0.3 for each factor), which shows the presence of nine suitable sectors for the creation of an agro-industrial complex. The ELECTRE method enabled us to make a site ordering for the identification of the most three appropriate sites.

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Title: GIS and multi-criteria analysis to select potential sites of agro-industrial complex
Authors: Houda Sahnoun
Mohamed Moncef Serbaji
Boubaker Karray
Khaled Medhioub
Publication date: 01-08-2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences / Issue 8/2012
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-011-1471-4

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