%0 Journal Article %T Integra£¿£¿o de crit¨¦rios t¨¦cnicos, ambientais e sociais em estudos de alternativas locacionais para implanta£¿£¿o de aterro sanit¨¢rio %A Monta£¿o %A Marcelo %A Ranieri %A Victor Eduardo Lima %A Schalch %A Valdir %A Fontes %A Aur¨¦lio Teodoro %A Castro %A Marcus C¨¦sar Avezum Alves de %A Souza %A Marcelo Pereira de %J Engenharia Sanitaria e Ambiental %D 2012 %I Brazilian Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering %R 10.1590/S1413-41522012000100010 %X the national environment policy aims to reconcile economic and social development with environmental quality and has several instruments to address environmental issues within the decision making processes. thus, the discussion about the location of activities is an important step in the evaluation of the environmental acceptability of aparticular activity, even though the systematic procedures do not require neither to the entrepreneur or to the government studies of sitting alternatives. this paper presents the integration of technical, environmental and social criteria in a landfill sitting study, in order to present a systematic integration of environmental factors and applies in a case study in s£¿o carlos, brazil. the results allowed the development of an environmental impact statement more focused on significant impacts and the participation of segments of society at early stages of project's development. %K locational alternatives %K environmental impact assessment %K environmental licensing %K carrying capacity %K landfill. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-41522012000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en