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Landfill site selection by using geographic information systems

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One of the serious and growing potential problems in most large urban areas is the shortage of land for waste disposal. Although there are some efforts to reduce and recover the waste, disposal in landfills is still the most common method for waste destination. An inappropriate landfill site may have negative environmental, economic and ecological impacts. Therefore, it should be selected carefully by considering both regulations and constraints on other sources. In this study, candidate sites for an appropriate landfill area in the vicinity of Ankara are determined by using the integration of geographic information systems and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA). For this purpose, 16 input map layers including topography, settlements (urban centers and villages), roads (Highway E90 and village roads), railways, airport, wetlands, infrastructures (pipelines and power lines), slope, geology, land use, floodplains, aquifers and surface water are prepared and two different MCDA methods (simple additive weighting and analytic hierarchy process) are implemented to a geographical information system. Comparison of the maps produced by these two different methods shows that both methods yield conformable results. Field checks also confirm that the candidate sites agree well with the selected criteria.

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  1. Department of Geological Engineering, Mugla University, 48100, Mugla, Turkey

    Başak Şener

  2. Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey

    M. Lütfi Süzen & Vedat Doyuran

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Şener, B., Süzen, M.L. & Doyuran, V. Landfill site selection by using geographic information systems. Environ Geol 49, 376–388 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00254-005-0075-2

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