IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/adp/ijesnr/v20y2019i4p126-131.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Municipal Solid Waste Suitable Disposal Site Selection, Case Study, Wolkite Town, Ethiopia

Author

Listed:
  • Yenenesh Hailu
  • Terefe Hanchiso
  • Abreham Bereta

    (Department of Natural Resources Management, Wolkite University, Ethiopia)

Abstract

Solid waste disposal area is a matter of public health concern. selection of an appropriate site would minimize environmental impact and forms a sound basis solid waste management, this study conducted with the aim of locating suitable land fill site for the case wolkite town, thus in order to Locating new solid waste landfill area multiple aspects, such as land use/land cover, soil and slope were used as factors. Moreover, proximity from surface water such as: rivers/streams, groundwater supply well point, road, public facility such as-schools, health centers, administrative offices, churches, mosques, other built up areas, and cultural sites were considered as landfill sitting constrains, data analysis were conducted through GIS software finally candidate land fill site were identified ,thus the municipality recommended to use the indicated land fill site rather than the former unsuitable land fill.

Suggested Citation

  • Yenenesh Hailu & Terefe Hanchiso & Abreham Bereta, 2019. "Municipal Solid Waste Suitable Disposal Site Selection, Case Study, Wolkite Town, Ethiopia," International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 20(4), pages 126-131, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:ijesnr:v:20:y:2019:i:4:p:126-131
    DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2019.20.556044
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://juniperpublishers.com/ijesnr/pdf/IJESNR.MS.ID.556044.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://juniperpublishers.com/ijesnr/IJESNR.MS.ID.556044.php
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.19080/IJESNR.2019.20.556044?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. D Martin & H C W L Williams, 1992. "Market-Area Analysis and Accessibility to Primary Health-Care Centres," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 24(7), pages 1009-1019, July.
    2. Yoram Wind & Thomas L. Saaty, 1980. "Marketing Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 26(7), pages 641-658, July.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Chin-Tsai Lin & Chuan Lee & Wen-Yu Chen, 2007. "Using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to evaluate service performance of a travel intermediary," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(3), pages 281-296, October.
    2. S Wheeler, 2006. "An analysis of combined arms teaming for the Australian defence force," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 57(11), pages 1279-1288, November.
    3. Oleg Uzhga-Rebrov & Peter Grabusts, 2023. "Methodology for Environmental Risk Analysis Based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Values," Risks, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-22, May.
    4. Hughes, Warren R., 2009. "A statistical framework for strategic decision making with AHP: Probability assessment and Bayesian revision," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 37(2), pages 463-470, April.
    5. Reza Vaziri & Mehran Mohsenzadeh & Jafar Habibi, 2016. "TBDQ: A Pragmatic Task-Based Method to Data Quality Assessment and Improvement," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(5), pages 1-30, May.
    6. Necla Öztürk & Hakan Tozan & Özalp Vayvay, 2020. "A New Decision Model Approach for Health Technology Assessment and a Case Study for Dialysis Alternatives in Turkey," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(10), pages 1-25, May.
    7. Cemal AKTÜRK & Sevinç GÜLSEÇEN, 2018. "Sipariş Teslim Tarihi Problemi İçin Çok Kriterli ve Çok Yöntemli Karar Destek Sistemi Önerisi," Istanbul Management Journal, Istanbul University Business School, vol. 29(84), pages 65-78, June.
    8. Ngan, Sue Lin & How, Bing Shen & Teng, Sin Yong & Promentilla, Michael Angelo B. & Yatim, Puan & Er, Ah Choy & Lam, Hon Loong, 2019. "Prioritization of sustainability indicators for promoting the circular economy: The case of developing countries," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 314-331.
    9. Srinivas K. Reddy & Jay E. Aronson & Antonie Stam, 1998. "SPOT: Scheduling Programs Optimally for Television," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 44(1), pages 83-102, January.
    10. Eric Sucky, 2006. "Kontraktlogistik—Ein stochastisch dynamischer Planungsansatz zur Logistikdienstleisterauswahl," Metrika: International Journal for Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 131-153, June.
    11. Bentes, Alexandre Veronese & Carneiro, Jorge & da Silva, Jorge Ferreira & Kimura, Herbert, 2012. "Multidimensional assessment of organizational performance: Integrating BSC and AHP," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 65(12), pages 1790-1799.
    12. Banai, Reza, 2010. "Evaluation of land use-transportation systems with the Analytic Network Process," The Journal of Transport and Land Use, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, vol. 3(1), pages 85-112.
    13. Jalilova, Gulnaz & Khadka, Chiranjeewee & Vacik, Harald, 2012. "Developing criteria and indicators for evaluating sustainable forest management: A case study in Kyrgyzstan," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 21(C), pages 32-43.
    14. Chauvy, Remi & Meunier, Nicolas & Thomas, Diane & De Weireld, Guy, 2019. "Selecting emerging CO2 utilization products for short- to mid-term deployment," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 236(C), pages 662-680.
    15. Amenta, Pietro & Lucadamo, Antonio & Marcarelli, Gabriella, 2021. "On the choice of weights for aggregating judgments in non-negotiable AHP group decision making," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 288(1), pages 294-301.
    16. Fatih Yiğit & Şakir Esnaf, 2021. "A new Fuzzy C-Means and AHP-based three-phased approach for multiple criteria ABC inventory classification," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 32(6), pages 1517-1528, August.
    17. Dragan Pamucar & Ali Ebadi Torkayesh & Sanjib Biswas, 2023. "Supplier selection in healthcare supply chain management during the COVID-19 pandemic: a novel fuzzy rough decision-making approach," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 328(1), pages 977-1019, September.
    18. A Ishizaka & D Balkenborg & T Kaplan, 2011. "Does AHP help us make a choice? An experimental evaluation," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 62(10), pages 1801-1812, October.
    19. Babak Daneshvar Rouyendegh & Kazim Topuz & Ali Dag & Asil Oztekin, 2019. "An AHP-IFT Integrated Model for Performance Evaluation of E-Commerce Web Sites," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 21(6), pages 1345-1355, December.
    20. Emmanuel Kazuva & Jiquan Zhang & Zhijun Tong & Alu Si & Li Na, 2018. "The DPSIR Model for Environmental Risk Assessment of Municipal Solid Waste in Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(8), pages 1-30, August.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    earth and environment journals; environment journals; open access environment journals; peer reviewed environmental journals; open access; juniper publishers; ournal of Environmental Sciences; juniper publishers journals ; juniper publishers reivew;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:adp:ijesnr:v:20:y:2019:i:4:p:126-131. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Robert Thomas (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.