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| Author(s): |
Simone Costa Pfeiffer
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2001-04-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Arthur Mattos;
Luiz Pereira de Brito;
Fazal Hussain Chaudhry;
João Tinôco Pereira Neto;
Valdir Schalch
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| Advisor: | Arthur Mattos |
| Abstract | |
Sanitary landfilling is the conventional method of disposing of municipal solid waste. Thus, the focus of the work was to develop the data and tool necessary to aid decision makers and special interest groups begin to understand the alternatives and tradeoffs in the landfill siting process. A Geographic Information System (GIS) were used to determine suitable areas for solid waste landfill sites in Ribeirão Preto (SP). The siting criteria for selecting a potencial site include geological and hydrogeological conditions, surface water distances, buffer zone of roads, topography, soil, land use and proximity to centres of population. The weights or \"importance\" these criteria have a huge bearing on the decision making process. In spatial siting analysis with multiple factors, balancing the relative importance of varied factors can be difficult. Thus, a set of weights for the factors was presented and discussed. (AU) | |