Intertemporal and spatial location of disposal facilities

  1. André, Francisco J.
  2. Velasco, Francisco
  3. Gonzalez-Abril, Luis
Revista:
Spanish economic review

ISSN: 1435-5469

Año de publicación: 2009

Volumen: 11

Número: 1

Páginas: 23-49

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1007/S10108-008-9053-7 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Spanish economic review

Resumen

The optimal capacities and locations of a sequence of landfills are studied, and the interactions between these characteristics are considered. Deciding the capacity of a landfill has some spatial implications since it affects the feasible region for the remaining landfills, and some temporal implications because the capacity determines the lifetime of the landfill and hence the moment of time when the next landfills should be constructed. Some general mathematical properties of the solution are provided and interpreted from an economic point of view. The resulting problem turns out to be non-convex and, therefore, it cannot be solved by conventional optimization techniques. Some global optimization methods are used to solve the problem in a particular case in order to illustrate how the solution depends on the parameter values.

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