Land Suitability Assessment for Olive Mill Wastewater Disposal by Integrating Multicriteria Decision Support Tools

Authors

  • Dimitris Triantakonstantis Hellenic Agricultural Organization "DEMETER" Institute of Soil and Water Resources / Department of Soil Science http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0198-9650
  • Spyridon Detsikas Department of Natural Resources and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens
  • Victor Kavvadias Department of Soil Science, Institute of Soil and Water Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”, 1 S. Venizelou str., 14123, Lycovrisi, Attiki
  • Zoi Papadopoulou Department of Soil Science, Institute of Soil and Water Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”, 1 S. Venizelou str., 14123, Lycovrisi, Attiki
  • Panagiotis Sparangis Department of Soil Science, Institute of Soil and Water Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”, 1 S. Venizelou str., 14123, Lycovrisi, Attiki
  • Nikolaos Katsenios Department of Soil Science, Institute of Soil and Water Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”, 1 S. Venizelou str., 14123, Lycovrisi, Attiki
  • Dimitrios Vlachakis Laboratory of Genetics, Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece Lab of Molecular Endocrinology, Center of Clinical, Experimental Surgery and Translational Research, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
  • Aspasia Efthimiadou Department of Soil Science, Institute of Soil and Water Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”, 1 S. Venizelou str., 14123, Lycovrisi, Attiki

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14806/ej.26.1.947

Keywords:

GIS, plive mill wastewater, multicriteria evaluation, Analytical Hierarchy Process, fuzzy sets

Abstract

Many on-site waste disposal systems fail regularly due to problems concerning suitable location and management. A potential environmental threat is inevitably propagated through on-site, off-site, downstream, soil surface and ground water pollution. Soil is a key component of land suitability for waste disposal. This paper presents a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – based integrated multicriteria decision support system for evaluating the land suitability for olive mill wastewater (OMWW) disposal in the Mediterranean region. Two-scaled classification schemes are developed, the global scheme for Central and South Greece (scale: 1:30.000) and the local scheme for the study area in Xiromero, Aetolia-Acarnania Prefecture, Western Greece, scale 1:10.000. Constrains and factors are included into the spatial decision-making framework, where geostatistical and fuzzy set theory techniques, as well as Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) are appropriately integrated. Physical, chemical, and socioeconomic variables adapted to the Mediterranean soil conditions are incorporated as driving forces for the land suitability assessment and the produced maps reveal valuable results for final end-users, such as municipal authorities, agriculturalists, farmers and other national and local stakeholders.

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Published

2021-08-03

Issue

Vol. 26: Special issue to Biostatistics and Mathematical Modelling in Bioinformatics

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Research Papers

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