It is worth mentioning that site of Karbala religious has great importance to attract people from other provinces and other countries because of the site of shrine Imam Hussein Ibn Ali (PBUH), The main objective of this study is to choose the most suitable landfill in a manner consistent with environmental determinants by the use of geographic information system (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) for the management of municipal solid waste for the governorate. In this study, were used 19 including (Socioeconomic criteria, Accessibility criteria, Infrastructural criteria, Morphology criteria and Hydrology criteria) as inputs digital map layers. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method was used to weighting the criteria. Ten suitable candidate landfill sites were finding.
Keywords: Landfill, Multi-criteria decision analysis, GIS, Analytical hierarchy process, Karbala, Iraq.