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A methodology for landfill location using geographic information systems: a Colombian regional case
Metodología para la localización de rellenos sanitarios mediante sistemas de información geográfica. Un caso regional colombiano
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https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v32n1.28527Keywords:
landfill, selection site, methodology, geographic information system (en)landfill, selection site, methodology, geographic information system (es)
The regions' economic growth and accelerated development have created high solid waste production rates; such waste is dis-posed of in many localities in places without any technical and/or environmental measures having been taken. This paper presents guidelines for locating landfills by combining geographic information systems (GIS) with analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and simple additive weighting (SAW). The methodology so developed was applied to the regional case of Tame in the Arauca department in Colombia; a scenario involving Colombian legislation was compared to the proposed methodology. The results showed that there were significant differences in estimating area availability. Regarding 95% of maximum weighting (1,000 points), the proposed methodology was 81% more restrictive than the Colombian legislation.
El crecimiento económico y el acelerado desarrollo de las regiones han generado elevadas tasas de producción de residuos sólidos, desechos que en numerosas localidades son dispuestos en lugares sin ningún tipo de medida técnica ni ambiental. En este artículo se presenta un desarrollo metodológico para la localización de rellenos sanitarios mediante la combinación de sistemas de información geográfica (SIG), con el proceso analítico jerárquico (PAJ) y el método de ponderación aditiva simple (MPAS). La metodología desarrollada fue aplicada a un caso regional colombiano: Tame, Arauca. Se desarrolló un escenario de comparación entre la legislación colombiana y la metodología propuesta. Los resultados muestran que existen diferencias significativas en la estimación de la disponibilidad de área. Con respecto al 95% de la ponderación máxima (1.000 puntos), la metodología propuesta fue un 81% más restrictiva que la legislación colombiana.
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