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Marble waste site suitability assessment using the GIS-based AHP model

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Site suitability with regards to environmental protection, public concerns, and the legitimate prerequisite is a basic issue that has been tended to in this study. By and large, marble waste is being unloaded on accessible open spaces or released in water to the close by waterways in the territory, Mohmand marble zone (Shabqadar), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Suitability assessment for marble waste collection and disposal was carried out through the integrated approach of analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and geographic information system (GIS) to limit the ecological dangers, public, and government concerns related to marble waste. The available land use was ordered into three main land use classes followed by six sub-classes including water bodies and agriculture (environmental), settlement and social site (social), and marble units and roads (economic). These sub-classes in the investigation region were organized through pairwise correlation and weighted sum analysis, AHP procedure. The AHP results were interpreted through GIS tools of digitization, buffering, and overlay in ArcMap, ArcGIS. The integrated AHP and GIS outcomes were consolidated to get the optimum results of the study, marble waste collection, and disposal options. It was concluded that priority should be given to water bodies followed by agricultural land while protecting the available land use classes from marble waste hazards. The percent priority values calculated are 32.33%, 30.50%, 12.16%, 10.66%, 8.50%, and 6% for water bodies, agricultural land, settlements, marble processing units, roads, and cultural sites respectively. The sequence of priority of the land use values are waterbodies > agriculture > settlement > marble industries > road > cultural site. The proposed integrated model is helpful in site suitability for waste management by the authorities and decision-makers associated with waste management.

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, The University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

    Muhammad Fawad & Wisal Shah

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan

    Farid Ullah, Muhammad Irshad & Qaisar Mahmood

  3. Department of Environmental Sciences, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan

    Iqbal Ahmad

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Conceptualization: MF, FU, MI, WS. Geo-survey: MF, FU, WS, IA. Technical supervision: FU, MI, QM, IA. Data interpretation: MF, QM, FU, MI, WS. Writing—review and editing: MF, FU, MI, QM, WS. Geospatial analysis: MF, WS, FU, IA. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Fawad, M., Ullah, F., Irshad, M. et al. Marble waste site suitability assessment using the GIS-based AHP model. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 28386–28401 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-18373-7

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