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## Abstract Starting from the topicality of the issues related to the location of undesirable facilities and on the basis of a brief review of the types of models that are currently being used in the Municipal Solid Waste Management context, the present paper proposes a multicriteria approach that is able to support decision makers in the choice of the best location for a waste incinerator plant in the Province of Torino (Italy). Three alternative sites have been compared through the use of the Analytic Network Process (ANP) method. The application allows the dependence relationships among the aspects and criteria to be assessed and the relative importance of all the elements that play an influence on the final choice to be elicitated. The decision‐making process was developed through the identification of 31 environmental and socio‐economic indicators that were grouped into clusters and organized in four subnetworks according to the Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks (BOCR) model in order to compare the three alternatives by means of a holistic approach and to better highlight the tradeoffs between the aspects involved in the decision. The aim of this work is to analyse the

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Author

Marta Bottero; Valentina Ferretti

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley and Sons Ltd; Wiley (ISSN 1057-9214)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Decision Sciences (Social Sciences)