Title
A methodology for landfill location using geographic information systems: A Colombian regional case
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Publication Title
Ingenieria e Investigacion
Abstract
The regions' economic growth and accelerated development have created high solid waste production rates; such waste is disposed of in many localities in places without any technical and/or environmental measures having been taken. This paper presents guidelines for locating landfills by combining geographic information systems (GIS) with analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and simple additive weighting (SAW). The methodology so developed was applied to the regional case of Tame in the Arauca department in Colombia; a scenario involving Colombian legislation was compared to the proposed methodology. The results showed that there were significant differences in estimating area availability. Regarding 95% of maximum weighting (1,000 points), the proposed methodology was 81% more restrictive than the Colombian legislation.
Volume
32
Issue
1
First Page
64
Last Page
70
ISSN
01205609
Recommended Citation
Zafra Mejía, Carlos Alfonso; Mendoza Castañeda, Franklin Andrés; and Montoya Varela, Paula Alejandra, "A methodology for landfill location using geographic information systems: A Colombian regional case" (2012). Scopus Unisalle. 597.
https://ciencia.lasalle.edu.co/scopus_unisalle/597
Identifier
SCOPUS_ID:84859466157