PMID- 19763684
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100420
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 1432-1009 (Electronic)
IS  - 0364-152X (Linking)
VI  - 44
IP  - 5
DP  - 2009 Nov
TI  - A comparative approach for ranking contaminated sites based on the risk 
      assessment paradigm using fuzzy PROMETHEE.
PG  - 952-67
LID - 10.1007/s00267-009-9368-7 [doi]
AB  - A ranking system for contaminated sites based on comparative risk methodology 
      using fuzzy Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluation 
      (PROMETHEE) was developed in this article. It combines the concepts of fuzzy sets 
      to represent uncertain site information with the PROMETHEE, a subgroup of 
      Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods. Criteria are identified based on a 
      combination of the attributes (toxicity, exposure, and receptors) associated with 
      the potential human health and ecological risks posed by contaminated sites, 
      chemical properties, site geology and hydrogeology and contaminant transport 
      phenomena. Original site data are directly used avoiding the subjective 
      assignment of scores to site attributes. When the input data are numeric and 
      crisp the PROMETHEE method can be used. The Fuzzy PROMETHEE method is preferred 
      when substantial uncertainties and subjectivities exist in site information. The 
      PROMETHEE and fuzzy PROMETHEE methods are both used in this research to compare 
      the sites. The case study shows that this methodology provides reasonable 
      results.
FAU - Zhang, Kejiang
AU  - Zhang K
AD  - Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada.
FAU - Kluck, Cheryl
AU  - Kluck C
FAU - Achari, Gopal
AU  - Achari G
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Evaluation Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20090916
PL  - United States
TA  - Environ Manage
JT  - Environmental management
JID - 7703893
RN  - 0 (Hazardous Waste)
SB  - IM
MH  - Fuzzy Logic
MH  - *Hazardous Waste
MH  - Humans
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - Uncertainty
EDAT- 2009/09/19 06:00
MHDA- 2010/04/21 06:00
CRDT- 2009/09/19 06:00
PHST- 2008/11/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2009/08/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2009/08/12 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2009/09/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/09/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/04/21 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s00267-009-9368-7 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Manage. 2009 Nov;44(5):952-67. doi: 10.1007/s00267-009-9368-7. Epub 2009 
      Sep 16.