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Application challenges for the social Life Cycle Assessment of fertilizers within life cycle sustainability assessment

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2014
Abstract The paper explains and discusses the challenges confronted during the application of the Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) methodology defined by UNEP/SETAC S-LCA guidelines in a case study under the framework of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA).
Julia Martínez-Blanco, Annekatrin Lehmann, Pere Muñoz, Assumpció Antón, Marzia Traverso, Joan Rieradevall, Matthias Finkbeiner   +6 more
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Functional Unit Definition Criteria in Life Cycle Assessment and Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Discussion

2019
The definition of a Functional Unit (FU) is essential for building and modelling a product system in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). A FU is a quantified description of the function of a product that serves as the reference basis for all calculations regarding impact assessment.
Ioannis Arzoumanidis, Manuela D'Eusanio, Andrea Raggi, Luigia Petti   +3 more
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Defining the baseline in social life cycle assessment

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2010
Background, aim and scope A relatively broad consensus has formed that the purpose of developing and using the social life cycle assessment (SLCA) is to improve the social conditions for the stakeholders affected by the assessed product’s life cycle.
Andreas Jørgensen, Matthias Finkbeiner, Michael S. Jørgensen, Michael Z. Hauschild   +3 more
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Chapter 3 Life cycle thinking tools: Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing and Social Life Cycle Assessment

2020
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology was born in order to face the need for methods for understanding and addressing environmental protection and the impacts of products. In other words, it was born to provide information to show the effects of an activity on the environment and to identify opportunities for making changes to reduce the ...
TONIOLO SARA, TOSATO ROBERTA CHIARA, GAMBARO FABIO, JINGZHENG REN   +3 more
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Social life cycle assessment: methodological and implementation issues [PDF]

The Annals of the "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava. Fascicle of The Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, 2011
This paper describes the development of the Social Life Cycle Assessment methodology. Introduce the debate about the inclusion of the social criteria in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and presents the actual framework. A second part presents and analyzes recent case studies published. This methodology allows increasing knowledge, providing information for
Sanchez Ramirez P. K., PETTI, Luigia
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Social Impacts in Product Life Cycles - Towards Life Cycle Attribute Assessment

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1065/lca2006.04.017 Social impacts in supply chains and product life cycles are of increasing interest to policy makers and stakeholders. Work is underway to develop social impact indicators for LCA, and to identify the social inventory data that will drive impact assessment for this category. Standard LCA practice collects
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-Social Life Cycle Assessent in the honey industry

2015
The goal of this paper is to assess and present the social aspects of the supply chain of honey through the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA). Honey, and all its beekeeping products, are the subjects of a thriving market; indeed, Italian beekeeping accounts for 1.1 million beehives and an estimated turnover of 70 million euros [1]. It is important to
Manuela D'Eusanio, Monica Serreli, Luigia Petti   +2 more
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A Review of Social Life Cycle Assessment Methodologies

2015
Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) is emerging as a powerful and necessary tool in sustainability science. With its great flexibility, SLCA can be applied toward quantifying social impacts on a system. However, the literature lacks a review of the current methods that hinder its applicability.
Yi Fan, Ruqun Wu, Jiquan Chen, Defne Apul   +3 more
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Social issues in Life Cycle Assessment

2012
L'article explique de manière simple ce qu'est une ACV sociale par rapport à une ACV environnementale (ou écobilan).
Macombe, Catherine, Garrabé, M., Feschet, Pauline, Loeillet, D.   +3 more
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Social Life Cycle Assessment

2022
Elisa Baraibar-Diez, Ignacio Llorente, María D. Odriozola   +2 more
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