Analyzing policy impact potential for municipal solid waste management decision-making: A case study of Taiwan

Application of ANP and DEMATEL to evaluate the decision-making of municipal solid waste management in Metro Manila

“…Many works related to MSW provided valuable advice, including essential factors for a successful MSW management (Su et al 2007;Vego et al 2007;Khan and Faisal 2008). However, few works provided methods which can empirically evaluate and model the MSW management involved with several complex criteria systematically for Metro Manila.…”

“…This study uses objective factors that cover all the major key elements; namely: social, economic, technological, political and administrative dimensions These factors were used extensively in Chiu (2006), Cheng et al (2002), Chung and Lo (2003), Hernandez and Martin-Cejas (2005), Skordilis (2004), Cavallaro and Ciraolo (2005), Su et al (2007) and Hung et al (2007). In addition, this study applied an effective solution based on a combined ANP and DEMATEL approach to assist the expert group that needs to select a favorable MSW management solution.…”

Waste prevention for sustainable resource and waste management

“…Ma reviewed and developed several models to support decision-making in MSW management [63][64][65]. Multiobjective programing (MOP) has been applied to solve MSW management issues, such as selecting site locations and choosing alternatives and strategies [63][64][65][66].…”

“…There are several MCDM methods available, such as the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method, the outranking method, and the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method. Su et al applied AHP to evaluate five fly ash management alternatives in Taipei City, Taiwan, while considering the environmental, economic, social, management, and technological aspects [64]. Su et al also applied the TOPSIS method to evaluate four waste reduction policies in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, while considering environmental, administrative, economic, and social aspects [65].…”

Application of fuzzy DEMATEL to develop a cause and effect model of municipal solid waste management in Metro Manila

“…Karagiannidis and Moussiopoulos (1998) proposed a set of multiple criteria, which cover social, environmental, financial, and technical aspects, for dealing with optimization of regional solid waste management. Su et al (2007) studied many modern decision-making support systems which already partially consider social factor analysis in addition to expenses and benefits, environmental effects, technical issues, and management aspects. A study in Taiwan's major MSW policies in the past 10 years discovered that there is still a great deal of uncertainty associated with policy implementation, even when the effects of factors related to environmental, economic, social, technological, and management aspects have been considered.…”