LANDFILL SITE SELECTION IN KARBALA GOVERNORATE, IRAQ

Authors

  • Mohammad Ali Al-Anbari Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Babylon University, Babylon, Iraq Author
  • Yusra Raad Ensaif Environmental Engineering Department, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq Author

Keywords:

Landfill, Multi-criteria decision analysis, GIS, Analytical hierarchy process, Karbala, Iraq

Abstract

It is worth mentioning that the site of Karbala religious has great importance to attract ‎people from other provinces and other countries because of the site of shrine Imam ‎Hussein Ibn Ali (PBUH), The main objective of this study is to choose the most ‎suitable landfill in a manner consistent with environmental determinants by the use ‎of geographic information system (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis ‎‎(MCDA) for the management of municipal solid waste for the governorate.‎‏ ‏This ‎study was used 19 including (Socioeconomic criteria, Accessibility criteria, ‎Infrastructural criteria, Morphology criteria, and Hydrology criteria) as inputs of digital ‎map layers‏.‏‎ ‎‏The analytic ‎hierarchy process (AHP) method was used to weight the criteria.‎‏Ten suitable ‎candidate landfill sites were found.

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Published

2018-11-01

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 6 (2018): Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development

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LANDFILL SITE SELECTION IN KARBALA GOVERNORATE, IRAQ. (2018). Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development, 22(6), 30-42. https://jeasd.uomustansiriyah.edu.iq/index.php/jeasd/article/view/343