The siting of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills is a complex decision process. Existing methods utilize expert scores to determine criteria weights, however, they ignore the uncertainty data and criterion weights efficacy results. In this study, coupled fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) approach was employed site in Lanzhou, semi-arid valley basin city China, enhance spatial decis...

Long term methane emissions from landfill sites are often predicted by first-order decay (FOD) models, in which the default coefficients of the methane generation potential and the methane generation rate given by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are usually used. However, previous studies have demonstrated the large uncertainty in these coefficients because they are derived...

given the reduced freshwater supplies across the world, seawater desalination is one of the appropriate methods available for producing freshwater. selecting an optimal location is crucial in the installation of these plants owing to the environmental problems they cause. the present study was conducted to identify optimal locations for installing desalination plants in the coastal areas of sou...

one of the important issues for the majority of the planners is the optimized concentration and distribution of service centers. the well-balanced distribution of these centers and services need appropriate site selection so that all walks of life have easy access to these services. from among service centers, site selection for higher education centers is important in terms of their importance...