ABSTRACT:
Shortage of land for waste disposal and inappropriate landfill site is one of the
biggest problems in most of large urban areas. Therefore more efforts needed to overcome
this problem. A suitable landfill site should be selected carefully by considering
regulations and constraints issued by different environmental agencies or local authorities
such as environmental affairs departments. In this research ,a potential site for an
appropriate landfill area for Ramallah Governorate was determined by using geographic
information system (GIS) as a tool to aid the decision making process. To achieve this
purpose, thematic layers and different tabular data such as topography, land use, roads
network, ground and surface water, infrastructure, and urban areas were collected from
different institutions and governmental agencies in Palestine. Data were used to create the
vulnerability map for the area and buffer zones in order to find out the best location for
the anticipated regional landfill site.
Keywords: Landfill, GIS, solid waste, Palestine, vulnerability, municipal waste.
MAHAMID, I¹. & THAWABA, S².
¹Department of Civil Engineering, Birzeit University, Ramallah, West Bank
²Department of Architectural Engineering, Birzeit University, Ramallah, West Bank
Corresponding author: Dr. Salem Thawaba,
Department of Architectural Engineering, Birzeit University, Ramallah, West Bank
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