Fuzzy Multicriteria Risk Assessment for Hazardous Waste Management: The Case of Istanbul

DOI

10.2991/jracr.2011.1.1.3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

fuzzy sets, VIKOR, multicriteria evaluation, waste management, hazardous waste, risk assessment

Abstract

A hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment. Hazardous waste management is an area of the waste management field concerned with the proper containment, management, and disposal of wastes which could be considered hazardous. In this paper, we use a multicriteria evaluation method, namely VIKOR, for various hazardous waste treatment alternatives under fuzzy environment. These alternatives are physical treatment processes, chemical treatment processes, thermal treatment processes, and biological treatment processes. Under the main criteria, economic, risks, and technical, we consider 11 sub-criteria. The fuzzy set theory let us use linguistic evaluations for the alternatives.

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© 2011, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Seda Ugurlu
AU  - Cengiz Kahraman
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011/07/01
TI  - Fuzzy Multicriteria Risk Assessment for Hazardous Waste Management: The Case of Istanbul
JO  - Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response
SP  - 29
EP  - 41
VL  - 1
IS  - 1
SN  - 2210-8505
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/jracr.2011.1.1.3
DO  - 10.2991/jracr.2011.1.1.3
ID  - Ugurlu2011
ER  -