TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi criteria analysis to evaluate the best location of plants for renewable energy by forest biomass
T2 - A case study in central Italy
AU - Recanatesi, Fabio
AU - Tolli, Michela
AU - Lord, Richard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Fabio Recanatesi et al.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper presents preliminary results of a multi-criteria analysis (MCA) process in GIS environment for the identifications of sites suitable for building biomass plants. Today, environmental assessment needs of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) able to consider several aspects in a unique analysis framework. Biomass to energy projects are highly geographically dependent and the plant's profitability can be strongly influenced by its location. The complexity of interaction among ecological, economic and political variables and a widespread lack of data availability lead to difficulty in bringing together large-scale analysis and local planning systems. This gap can be solved through flexible tools able to relate large scale environmental assessment with medium and small scale DSS, useful for local decisions makers.
AB - This paper presents preliminary results of a multi-criteria analysis (MCA) process in GIS environment for the identifications of sites suitable for building biomass plants. Today, environmental assessment needs of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) able to consider several aspects in a unique analysis framework. Biomass to energy projects are highly geographically dependent and the plant's profitability can be strongly influenced by its location. The complexity of interaction among ecological, economic and political variables and a widespread lack of data availability lead to difficulty in bringing together large-scale analysis and local planning systems. This gap can be solved through flexible tools able to relate large scale environmental assessment with medium and small scale DSS, useful for local decisions makers.
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U2 - 10.12988/ams.2014.46451
DO - 10.12988/ams.2014.46451
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84918781548
SN - 1312-885X
VL - 8
SP - 6447
EP - 6458
JO - Applied Mathematical Sciences
JF - Applied Mathematical Sciences
IS - 129
ER -