Creating Social Handprints: Method and Case Study in the Electronic Computer Manufacturing Industry
This article introduces a process that can be used by companies to obtain an increasingly precise picture of their supply chain social footprint (negative impacts) and identify potential social handprints (i.e., changes to business as usual that create ...
Catherine Benoit Norris +3 more
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Coronary Flow Assessment Using Accelerated 4D Flow MRI With Respiratory Motion Correction
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can potentially be used for non-invasive screening of patients with stable angina pectoris to identify probable obstructive coronary artery disease.
Carmen P. S. Blanken +10 more
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Social life cycle assessment : specific approach and case study for Switzerland [PDF]
This article proposes a specific social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) approach, to be applied in a case study on energy production in Switzerland. The aim of the present study is to describe the social conditions along the global supply chains and to ...
Carabias-Hütter, Vicente +5 more
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Review of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Potential for Its Adoption at an Automotive Company [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to guide the next steps of a PhD thesis through a structured review of the state of the art and implementation of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), and to identify challenges and potentials for its adoption at an ...
Finkbeiner, Matthias +2 more
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Integration of life cycle assessment and life cycle costing for the eco-design of rubber products
Rubber hoses are a category of rubber products that are widely and intensively employed in construction sites for concrete conveying. There has been lack of study to investigate the life cycle environmental and economic impacts of the rubber hoses as an ...
Yahong Dong +5 more
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Sustainability of the chemical manufacturing industry - Towards a new paradigm? [PDF]
This paper describes the current situation of the chemicalmanufacturingindustry, with special reference to Europe and looks to the future sustainability demands on the sector, and the implications of these demands for chemical engineering education ...
Allen +33 more
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Sustainability Performance of an Italian Textile Product
Companies are more and more interested in the improvement of sustainability performance of products, services and processes. For this reason, appropriate and suitable assessment tools supporting the transition to a green economy are highly necessary ...
Paola Lenzo +4 more
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The Malaysian oil palm industry is one of the important contributors to the national economy, which improves the socio-economic of people, source of employment and eradicating poverty, but the industry is always scrutinised on its sustainability ...
Zainal Haryati +4 more
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Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in the construction sector – actual application and future outlook [PDF]
The construction industry is responsible for positive and negative values in society, economy and environment. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) as framework is considered to provide a valuable support to decision makers, by extending the scope
Backes Jana Gerta, Traverso Marzia
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Report on S-LCA: Final results and recommendations
Project Ô is working to show how water treatment technologies can be implemented in a way that bolsters social and environmental sustainability through circular water management. As part of Work Package 6, this social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) has the objective of determining the ecological impacts of water treatments at Project Ô demosites ...
Pfleger, Axel +5 more
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