A GIS-based system for allocating municipal solid waste incinerator compensatory fund
Resource
Waste Management 28 (12): 2690-2701
Journal
Waste Management
Journal Volume
28
Journal Issue
12
Pages
2690-2701
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
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Abstract
To ease the NIMBY (not in my back yard) syndrome of constructing municipal solid waste (MSW) incinerators in Taiwan, compensatory funding is widely allocated to the impacted communities to gain the acceptance and support of residents living the impacted areas. This paper presents a spatial methodology for distributing a compensatory fund more logically based on the environmental impact on each neighborhood in Taipei City. This method integrates ten impact factors, which have been proposed by a local committee, to evaluate all neighborhoods using mathematical models combined with spatial analyses in an analytic hierarchy process. The compensatory fund is distributed according to the resulting final scores. A GIS (geographic information systems)-based system has been developed to assist in assigning the final scores to the neighborhoods impacted. Results on impact factors and fund distributions are combined; they are included in an information system and displayed in spatial scales. For Taipei City, the impact of air quality during the incinerator operating period is the item of greatest concern to the surrounding residents and thus, it receives a relatively higher weight of 0.2894. As a result, high impact scores were assigned to not only those neighborhoods hosting the incinerators, but also the neighborhoods where the maximum particulate air pollutants occurred. This approach could be applicable to other MSW incinerators with similar environmental impact problems and interest in compensation schemes. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Other Subjects
Air pollution; Air quality; Decision theory; Geographic information systems; Hierarchical systems; Information systems; Insulating materials; Materials science; Mathematical models; Refuse incinerators; Solid wastes; Waste incineration; Air pollutants; Analytic hierarchies; Compensation schemes; High impacts; Hosting; Impact factors; Municipal solid waste incinerators; Municipal solid wastes; Operating periods; Spatial analyses; Spatial scales; Environmental impact; environmental impact assessment; financial provision; GIS; incineration; municipal solid waste; air pollutant; air quality; article; compensation; controlled study; environmental impact; geographic information system; incineration; mathematical model; methodology; municipal solid waste; organization and management; priority journal; residential home; Taiwan; waste gas management; Cities; Environment; Environmental Pollutants; Financing, Government; Geographic Information Systems; Incineration; Taiwan; Asia; Eurasia; Far East; Taipei; Taiwan
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