An Application of Fuzzy-VIKOR Method in Environmental Impact Assessment of the Boog Mine Southeast of Iran

Tabasi, Somayeh; Kakha, G. H.

doi:10.5829/ije.2021.34.06c.19

Cited by 3 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 26 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Microscope examination from 90-600x magnification revealed varied particle sizes and shapes indicating potential construction uses for tailings after further processing. Tabasi and Kakha (22) evaluate the environmental impacts of granite quarrying activities near Boog, Iran. By quantifying the impacts of factors on designated environmental components with a systematic fuzzy approach, this research assisted in environmental impact assessments for mining projects.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Comprehensive Model for Integrating Environmental, Economic, and Social Performance of Deep and Large-scale Open-Pit Copper Mines

Heydari,

Osanloo

2024

IJE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Deep and large-scale (D&LS) open-pit mines pose various environmental, social, and economic impacts on the mining projects' stakeholders and local, regional, national, and international communities. Identifying these impacts and having a comprehensive model to assess these impacts altogether is critical to achieving sustainable development (SD) goals. This study develops a robust sustainability assessment model for D&LS open-pit mining projects. The model comprehensively considers 99 impact factors across environmental, social, and economic dimensions. The sustainability score is calculated using the Z-FDAHP technique to reduce the bias and uncertainty of experts' judgments. Then, the scenario-based technique is used to apply the stakeholders' perspective to the model. The model is applied to Sungun Copper Mine (SCM) in northwest Iran for verification. Results show SCM's sustainability performance is highly sensitive to index weightings. The highest score was achieved with sole social prioritization (scenario 8 with a sustainability score of 6.364 out of 10), highlighting the critical role of community impacts. Environmental or economic focus alone (scenarios 2 and 5) was not very sustainable, with scores of 3.326 and 5.298 respectively. Scores of 5.543, 5.330, and 5.117 for sustainability can be achieved by optimizing all three SD aspects with a long-term, stakeholder-centered approach (scenarios 9, 4, and 6). The proposed sustainability assessment model exhibits robustness through its comprehensive set of 99 environmental, social, and economic indicators; its ability to customize indicator weights under different stakeholder-perspective scenarios; and validation of the quantitative scoring approach through an empirical case study, while continuous improvement would further reinforce its robustness over time.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Comprehensive Model for Integrating Environmental, Economic, and Social Performance of Deep and Large-scale Open-Pit Copper Mines

Heydari,

Osanloo

2024

IJE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Such approaches are useful for an organization in reduction of the product cost, enhancement of productivity, up-gradation of product quality, and improvement of sales volume in the market. Since the inception of the concept, several popular MCDM methods are evolved and been employed in almost every domain of engineering and management [1][2][3][4].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applications of Modified Simple Additive Weighting Method in Manufacturing Environment

2022

IJE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Multiple criteria decisions making (MCDM) techniques are employed widely by decision-makers for ranking the potential alternatives under conflicting environments to select the best one for different industrial problems. Present work employed a modified Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method to solve different decision-making problems in the manufacturing industry such as industrial robot selection, flexible manufacturing systems selection and, non-traditional machining processes selection respectively. The proposed methodology is simple and involves lesser mathematical complexity. The ranking obtained by the proposed modified SAW method corroborates well with other popular MCDM methods like MOORA, MABAC, TOPSIS and AHP for solving similar problems. It indicates the robustness of the proposed method. However, the proposed method is better compared to those methods through its simplicity, lesser computational complexity, and lesser computational time. Further, sensitivity analysis indicates the stability of the method. Being generic the method can be applied for solving problems related to ranking and selection in any societal segment.

show abstract

Green Fuzzy Tourist Trip Design Problem

Ruiz-Meza

Brito

Montoya‐Torres

et al. 2022

Advances in Operations Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The shift from mass tourism to more personalized travel denotes great importance in the construction of tourist itineraries. Given the negative impacts of transport and tourism on the environment, sustainability criteria play an important role. The Tourist Trip Design Problem is related to the design of itineraries for tourists. Planning is complex in tourist regions of developing countries where the information associated with tourist activities is difficult to access, vague, and incomplete. With this information, tourists must plan their trip, and the conditions and limitations they establish for it are flexible and imprecise. Fuzzy optimization can address problems with this type of information and constraints. Therefore, in this paper, an analysis of the tourism supply chain is carried out, taking as a case study the Department of Sucre on Colombia's Caribbean coast. A Multiconstraint Multimodal Team Orienteering Problem with Time Windows and fuzzy constraints is developed to model the tourism trip design problem that maximizes profit and minimizes CO2 emissions. The model is tested using datasets from the literature and the real world. The results demonstrate consistency with the fuzzy approach and generate a set of low-emission solutions.

show abstract

An Application of Fuzzy-VIKOR Method in Environmental Impact Assessment of the Boog Mine Southeast of Iran

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

A New Comprehensive Model for Integrating Environmental, Economic, and Social Performance of Deep and Large-scale Open-Pit Copper Mines

A New Comprehensive Model for Integrating Environmental, Economic, and Social Performance of Deep and Large-scale Open-Pit Copper Mines

Applications of Modified Simple Additive Weighting Method in Manufacturing Environment

Green Fuzzy Tourist Trip Design Problem

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About