Sustainable location selection for photovoltaic waste recycling centers: An extended MULTIMOORA approach

IF 10.5 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Sustainable Cities and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI:10.1016/j.scs.2025.106316

Xingya Zhang, Jing Li, Nan Wang

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Abstract

Establishing a recycling system is of great significance for China to cope with the challenges of photovoltaic (PV) waste and promote the sustainable development of cities and society. Location selection of PV waste recycling centers (PVRCs) is one of the critical steps, which directly affects the transportation cost and environmental impact during the PV waste recycling process. PVRCs location selection is a complex multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem, requiring considering numerous factors such as economic cost, resources, environmental impact, etc. This study constructs a comprehensive PVRCs location selection framework. First, we establish a sustainable location assessment criteria system for PVRCs that includes 11 criteria involving economic, environment and social aspects. Then, we propose an extended MULTIMOORA method based on rough-Z numbers to evaluate the potential PVRC locations, which combines the merit of rough Z-numbers in characterizing the information reliability and uncertainty inherent in expert evaluations and the advantage of MULTIMOORA approach in accurately ranking PVRCs locations. Finally, the proposed framework is applied to a real case to verify its effectiveness, providing valuable technical support for enterprises to avoid resource and economic loss.

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Sustainable Cities and Society Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

CiteScore

22.00

自引率

13.70%

发文量

810

审稿时长

27 days

期刊介绍： Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including: 1. Smart cities and resilient environments; 2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management; 3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management); 4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities; 5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments; 6. Green infrastructure and BMPs; 7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management; 8. Urban agriculture and forestry; 9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure; 10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy; 11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities; 12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities; 13. Health monitoring and improvement; 14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies; 15. Smart city governance; 16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society; 17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies; 18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems. 19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management; 20. Waste reduction and recycling; 21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling; 22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;