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Evaluation of a challenge-derived social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) framework [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 2021
Sustainability assessments provide methodologies to assess the environmental, economic, and social impacts of products along their life cycle. The purpose of this research is to develop a social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) framework derived from a set ...
Ricardo J. Bonilla-Alicea, Katherine Fu
doaj   +3 more sources

S-LCA applications: a case studies analysis [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2018
S-LCA is defined by the guidelines established by the 2009 UNEP/SETAC, as "a technique for assessing social (real or potential) impacts with the aim of evaluating the socio-economic aspects of the products and their potential impacts, positive and ...
Lucchetti Maria C.   +3 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Quantification of corruption in preventative cost-based S-LCA: a contribution to the Oiconomy project. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Life Cycle Assess, 2019
Corruption is one of the key social aspects, heavily impacting all three Planet-, People- and Prosperity sustainability pillars and is therefore essential to be included in S-LCA. The objective of this article is to consider the available options to quantify corruption in preventative cost-based S-LCA, and to make a first proposal for quantification ...
Croes PR, Vermeulen WJV.
europepmc   +6 more sources

S-LCA Indicators as Employee Motivation Factors

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Sustainable Development, 2021
There are a lot of factors affecting employee motivation in the company. Some of them are supported by law, while others result from voluntary activities of the company, and the way to some of them still have not been found. Our research dealt with one of the possibilities, the S-LCA indicators as employee motivation factors.
Vávra, Jan   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Social life-cycle assessment (S-LCA) of residential rooftop solar panels using challenge-derived framework

open access: yesEnergy, Sustainability and Society, 2022
Background Social life-cycle assessment (S-LCA) provides a framework to evaluate the social impacts of decisions made during the design phases of a product.
Ricardo J. Bonilla-Alicea, Katherine Fu
doaj   +2 more sources

Participation in S-LCA: A Methodological Proposal Applied to Belgian Alternative Food Chains (Part 1)

open access: yesResources, 2019
In social life cycle assessment (S-LCA), the use of a participatory approach to define and select assessment criteria and indicators (C&Is) is recommended given the specificity of social issues, but it has been, for now, rarely implemented and ...
Solène Sureau   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Area of protection in S-LCA: human well-being or societal quality [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2019
PurposeThe set of stakeholders included in the social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) guideline (UNEP/SETAC 2009) could create confusion as to the target of the assessment: individuals or society. This paper attempts to develop the epistemological foundations of S-LCA in social sciences.
Soltanpour, Yazdan   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Assessing Social Sustainability of Products: An Improved S-LCA Method [PDF]

open access: yesProduct Lifecycle Management, 2016
To preserve proper growth of the planet, industries have to increase sustainability of produced good according to the compliance and governance regulations for NPD (new product development). Sustainability concerns economical, environmental and social aspects; among these issues, the last theme is the less argued in literature and this paper focuses on
Michele Germani   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Social impacts profile of suppliers: a S-LCA approach

open access: yesIFAC-PapersOnLine, 2016
Abstract There is a large scientific literature that addresses the supplier selection problem (SSP). However, the majority of the papers are focused in the economic dimension and do not consider the other dimensions of the sustainability, the environmental and the social ones.
Breno Barros Telles do Carmo   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Understanding digitalization’s environmental impact: why LCA is essential for informed decision-making

open access: yesnpj Climate Action
This comment critiques Gritsenko et al.‘s dismissal of environmental assessments such as Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) in analyzing digitalization’s environmental impacts.
Hannes Bluhm   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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