Multicriteria spatial decision support systems (MC-SDSS) have emerged as an integration of the geographical information systems (GIS) and multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods. GIS-based MCDA allows the incorporation of conflicting objectives and decision maker (DM) preferences into spatial decision models. During recent decades, a variety of research articles have been published regarding the implementation of methods and/or tools in a variety of real-world case studies. The article discusses, in detail, the criteria and methods that are implemented in GIS-based landfill siting suitability analysis and especially the exclusionary and non-exclusionary criteria that can be considered when selecting sites for municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. This paper reviews 36 seminal articles in which the evaluation of candidate landfill sites is conducted using MCDA methods. After a brief description of the main components of a MC-SDSS and the applied decision rules, the review focuses on the criteria incorporated into the decision models. The review provides a comprehensive guide to the landfill siting analysis criteria, providing details regarding the utilization methods, their decision or exclusionary nature and their monotonicity.
AnagnostopoulosKPVavatsikosAP (2007) GIS and multicriteria decision support systems: a review. In: MatsatsinisNZopounidisK. (eds) Decision Systems with Multiple Criteria. Athens: Klidarithmos, pp. 229–244 (in Greek).
2.
AnagnostopoulosKPVavatsikosAP (2011) Site suitability analysis for natural systems for wastewater treatment with spatial fuzzy analytic hierarchy process. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management138(2): 125–134.
3.
AnagnostopoulosKPVavatsikosAPSpiropoulosNKraiasI (2010) Land suitability analysis for natural wastewater treatment systems using a new GIS add-in for supporting criterion weight elicitation methods. Operational Research: An International Journal10(1): 91–108.
4.
BabanSMJFlannaganJ (1998) Developing and implementing GIS – assisted constraints criteria for planning landfill sites in the UK. Planning Practice and Research13(2): 139–151.
5.
BagchiA (1990) Design, Construction and Monitoring of Sanitary Landfill. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
6.
Banai-KashaniR (1989) A new method for site suitability analysis: the analytic hierarchy process. Environmental Management13(6): 685–693.
7.
BransJ-PMareschalB (2005) Promethee methods. In: FigueraJGrecoSEhrgottM (eds) Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys. International Series in Operations Research Management Science. Berlin: Springer, pp. 163–186.
8.
CarverSJ (1991) Integrating multi-criteria evaluation with geographical information systems. International Journal of Geographical Information Science5(3): 321–339.
9.
ChangNBParvathinathanGBreedenJB (2008) Combining GIS with fuzzy multicriteria decision-making for landfill siting in a fast-growing urban region. Journal of Environmental Management87(1): 139–153.
10.
CharnpratheepKZhouQGarnerB (1997) Preliminary landfill site screening using fuzzy geographical information systems. Waste Management & Research15: 197–215.
11.
CollinsMGSteinerFRRushmanMJ (2001) Land-use suitability analysis in the United States: historical development and promising technological achievements. Environmental Management28(5): 611–621.
12.
DelgadoOBMendozaMGranadosELGenelettiD (2008) Analysis of land suitability for the siting of inter-municipal landfills in the Cuitzeo Lake Basin, Mexico. Waste Management28(7): 1137–1146.
13.
DemesoukaOEVavatsikosAPAnagnostopoulosKP (2013a) Suitability analysis for siting MSW landfills and its multicriteria spatial decision support system: method, implementation and case study. Waste Management33(5): 1190–1206.
14.
DemesoukaOEVavatsikosAPAnagnostopoulosKP (2013b) Spatial UTA (S-UTA): a new approach for raster-based GIS multicriteria suitability analysis and its use in implementing natural systems for wastewater treatment. Journal of Environmental Management125: 41–54.
15.
DikshitAKPadmavathiTDasRK (2000) Locating potential landfill sites using geographic information systems. Journal of Environmental Systems28: 43–54.
16.
EastmanJR (2003) IDRISI Kilimanjaro: Guide to GIS and Image Processing. Worcester: Clark Laboratories, Clark University, p. 328.
17.
EdwardsW (1977) Use of multiattribute utility measurement for social decision making. In: BellDEKeeneyRLRaiffaH (eds) Conflicting Objectives in Decisions. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc., pp. 247–276.
18.
ErkutEMoranSR (1991) Locating obnoxious facilities in the public sector: an application of the hierarchy process to municipal landfill siting decisions. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences25: 89–102.
19.
EskandariMHomaeeMMahmodiS (2012) An integrated multi criteria approach for landfill siting in a conflicting environmental, economical and socio-cultural area. Waste Management32: 1528–1538.
20.
European Council Directive 1999/31/EC. Document L 182 (1999) Sanitary Landfilling of Solid Wastes.
21.
FigueraJMousseauVRoyB (2005) Electre methods. In: FigueraJGrecoSEhrgottM (eds) Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys. International Series in Operations Research Management Science. Berlin: Springer, pp. 133–153.
22.
GbanieSPTengbePBMomohJSMedoJKabbaVTS (2013) Modelling landfill location using geographic information systems (GIS) and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA): case study Bo, Southern Sierra Leone. Applied Geography36: 3–12.
23.
GebhardtKJankowskiJ (1987) Preliminary landfill siting and related analysis using simple modeling techniques. Engineering Geology23: 291–306.
24.
GemitziATsihrintzisVAVoudriasEPetalasCStravodimosG (2007) Combining geographic information system, multicriteria evaluation techniques and fuzzy logic in siting MSW landfills. Environmental Geology51(5): 797–811.
25.
GenelettiD (2010) Combining stakeholder analysis and spatial multicriteria evaluation to select and rank inert landfill sites. Waste Management30, 328–337.
26.
GorsevskiPVDonevskaKRMitrovskiCDFrizadoJP (2012) Integrating multi-criteria evaluation techniques with geographic information systems for landfill site selection: a case study using ordered weighted average. Waste Management32: 287–296.
27.
Greek Governmental Ministry Decision 114218/97 (1997) Document 1016 B’/17-11-1997. Framework of specifications and general planning for the management of solid wastes (in Greek).
28.
HalvadakisCP (1993) Municipal solid waste landfill siting in Greece – the case of the greater Hania region, Greece. Ekistics358–359: 45–52.
29.
HiggsG (2006) Integrating multi-criteria techniques with geographical information systems in waste facility location to enhance public participation. Waste Management & Research24: 105–117.
30.
HokkanenJSalminenP (1997) Locating a waste treatment facility by multicriteria analysis. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis6: 175–184.
31.
HwangCLLaiYJLiuTY (1993) A new approach for multiple objective decision making. Computers in Operations Research20(8): 889–899.
32.
IsalouAAZamaniVShahmoradiBAlizadehH (2013) Landfill site selection using integrated fuzzy logic and analytic network process (F-ANP). Environmental Earth Sciences68(6): 1745–1755.
33.
JankowskiPNyergesT (2001) Geographic Information System for Group Decision Making: Towards a Participatory, Geographic Information Science. Abingdon: Taylor and Francis.
34.
JensenJRChristensenEJ (1986) Solid and hazardous waste disposal site selection using digital geographic information system techniques. The Science of the Total Environment56: 265–276.
35.
JiaJFischerGWDyerJS (1998) Attribute weighting methods and decision quality in the presence of response error: a simulation study. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making11: 85–105.
36.
JiangHEastmanJR (2000) Application of fuzzy measures in multi-criteria evaluation in GIS. International Journal of Geographical Information Science14(2): 173–184.
37.
KallergisG (1986) Applied Hydrogeology, 1st ed., Vol. 2. Athens: Technical Chamber of Greece (in Greek).
38.
KallergisG (2000) Applied Environmental Hydrogeology, 2nd ed., Vol. 2. Athens: Technical Chamber of Greece (in Greek).
39.
KaoJJLinHY (1996) Multifactor spatial analysis for landfill siting. Journal of Environmental Engineering122(10): 902–908.
40.
KeeneyRLRaiffaH (1976) Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
41.
KollikkatharaNFengHSternE (2009) A purview of waste management evolution: special emphasis on USA. Waste Management29: 974–985.
42.
KontosTDKomilisDPHalvadakisCP (2003) Siting MSW landfills on Lesvos Island with a GIS-based methodology. Waste Management & Research21(3): 262–277.
LaneWNMcDonaldRR (1983) Land suitability analysis: landfill siting. Journal of Urban Planning and Development109(1): 50–61.
45.
LeaoSBishopIEvansD (2001) Assessing the demand of solid waste disposal in urban region by urban dynamics modelling in a GIS environment. Resources, Conservation and Recycling33(4): 289–313.
46.
LeaoSBishopIEvansD (2004) Spatial-temporal model for demand and allocation of waste landfills in growing urban regions. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems28(4): 353–385.
47.
LoberDJGreenDP (1994) NIMBY or NIABY: a logic model of opposition to solid-waste-disposal facility siting. Journal of Environmental Management40: 33–50.
48.
LukashehAFDrosteRLWarithMA (2001) Review of expert system (ES), geographic information system (GIS), decision support system (DSS), and their applications in landfill design and management. Waste Management & Research19: 177–185.
49.
MacDonaldML (1996) A multi-attribute spatial decision support system for solid waste planning. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems20(1): 1–17.
50.
MahiniASGholamalifardM (2006) Siting MSW landfills with a weighted linear combination methodology in a GIS environment. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology3(4): 435–445.
51.
MalczewskiJ (1999) GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
52.
MalczewskiJ (2000) On the use of weighted liner combination method in raster GIS: common and best practice approaches. Transactions in GIS4(1): 5–22.
53.
MalczewskiJ (2004) GIS-based land-use suitability analysis: a critical overview. Progress in Planning62: 3–65.
54.
MalczewskiJ (2006) GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis: a survey of the literature. International Journal of Geographical Information Science20(7): 703–726.
55.
MarinoniO (2006) A discussion on the computational limitations of outranking methods for land-use suitability assessment. International Journal of Geographical Information Science20(1): 69–87.
McHargIL (1992) Design with Nature. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
58.
MeloLOCalijuriMLDuarteICDAzevedoRFLorentzJF (2006) Strategic decision analysis for selection of landfill sites. Journal of Surveying Engineering132(2): 83–92.
59.
MoeinaddiniMKhorasaniNDanehkarADarvishsefatAAZienalyanM (2010) Siting MSW landfill using weighted linear combination and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) methology in GIS environment (case study: Karaj). Waste Management30(5): 912–920.
60.
NasBCayTIscanFBerktayA (2010) Selection of MSW landfill site for Konya, Turkey using GIS and multi-criteria evaluation. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment160: 491–500.
61.
NobleG (1992) Siting Landfills and Other LULUs. Lancaster, PA: Technomic Publishing Co.
62.
OumaYOKipkorifECTateishiR (2011) MCDA-GIS integrated approach for optimized landfill site selection for growing urban regions: an application of neighborhood-proximity analysis. Annals of GIS17(1): 43–62.
63.
PeavyHSRoweDRTchobanoglousG (1985) Environmental Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill.
64.
PereiraMCDucksteinL (1993) A multiple criteria decision-making approach to GIS-based land suitability evaluation. International Journal of Geographical Information Science7(5): 407–424.
65.
RobinsonVB (2003) A perspective on the fundamentals of fuzzy sets and their use in geographic information systems. Transactions in GIS7(1): 3–30.
66.
SaatyTL (1977) A scaling method for priorities in hierarchical structures. Journal of Mathematical Psychology15: 234–281.
67.
SaatyTL (1995) Decision Making for Leaders. 3rd ed.Pittsburgh, PA: RWS Publications.
68.
SaatyTL (1996) Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback: The Analytic Network Process. Pittsburgh, PA: RWS Publications.
69.
SadekSEl-FadelMFreihaF (2006) Compliance factors within a GIS-based framework for landfill siting. International Journal of Environmental Studies63(1): 71–86.
70.
SenerBSuzenMLDoyuranV (2006) Landfill site selection by using geographic information systems. Environmental Geology49(3): 376–388.
71.
SenerSSenerEKaraguzeR (2011) Solid waste disposal site selection with GIS and AHP methodology: a case study in Senirkent-Uluborlu (Isparta) Basin, Turkey. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment173, 533–554.
72.
SenerSSenerENasBKaraguzelR (2010) Combining AHP with GIS for landfill site selection: a case study in the Lake Beysehir catchment area (Konya, Turkey). Waste Management30: 2037–2046.
73.
SharifiMARetsiosV (2004) Site selection for waste disposal through spatial multiple criteria decision analysis. Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology3: 1–11.
74.
ShenHWYuYH (1997) Social and economic factors in the spread of the NIMBY syndrome against waste disposal sites in Taiwan. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management40(2): 273–282.
75.
SiddiquiMZEverettJWVieuxBE (1996) Landfill siting using geographic information systems: a demonstration. Journal of Environmental Engineering122(6): 515–523.
76.
SimonHA (1960) The New Science of Management Decision. New York: Harper and Row.
77.
StoneRPMyslikJP (1997) Assessing the Potential for Ground Water Contamination on Your Farm. Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
78.
SumathiVRNatesanUSarkarC (2008) GIS-based approach for optimized siting of municipal solid waste landfill. Waste Management28(11): 2146–2160.
79.
TchobanoglousGKreithF (2002) Handbook of Solid Waste Management. New York: McGraw-Hill.
80.
TchobanoglousGTheisenHVigilSA (1993) Integrated Solid Waste Management: Engineering Principles and Management Issues. New York: McGraw-Hill.
81.
TurbanE (1993) Decision Support and Expert Systems, Management Support Systems. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
82.
VatalisKManoliadisO (2002) A two-level multicriteria DSS for landfill site selection using GIS: case study in Western Macedonia, Greece. Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis6(1): 49–56.
83.
VavatsikosAP (2008) Decision support system development in GIS environment using fuzzy multicriteria decision making methods. Doctoral thesis, Department of Production Engineering and Management, Democritus University of Thrace (in Greek).
84.
VoogdH (1983) Multicriteria Evaluation for Urban and Regional Planning. London: Pion.
85.
WangGQinLLiGChenL (2009) Landfill site selection using spatial information technologies and AHP: a case study in Beijing, China. Journal of Environmental Management90(8): 2414–2421.
86.
WilliamsPT (1998) Waste Treatment and Disposal. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
87.
YildirimV (2012) Application of raster-based GIS techniques in the siting of landfills in Trabzon Province, Turkey: a case study. Waste Management & Research30(9): 949–960.
ZamoranoMMoleroEHurtadoAGrindlayARamosA (2008) Evaluation of a municipal landfill site in Southern Spain with GIS-aided methodology. Journal of Hazardous Materials16(1–2): 473–481.
90.
ZelenyM (1982) Multiple Criteria Decision Making. New York: McGraw-Hill.
