Application options of the Sustainable Child Development Index (SCDI) – assessing the status of sustainable development and establishing social impact pathways [PDF]
, 2018 The needs of children and their vulnerability to diseases, violence and poverty are different from those of adults. The Sustainable Child Development Index (SCDI) was thus developed in previous work to evaluate the status of sustainable development for ...
Chang, Ya-Ju +3 more
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Evaluation of a challenge-derived social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) framework
International 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
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Social Life Cycle Assessment of Mexico City's Water Cycle
Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2023 AbstractThere is a need to generate micro‐scale indicators to measure progress towards meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 6 and 8. In this sense, this study applies Social Life Cycle Assessment, including Quality of Employment (QoE) and Adequate Public Water Supply (AWS) indicators to assess the social performance of Mexico City's water cycle
Maribel García Sánchez +2 more
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Social Life Cycle Assessment of Major Staple Grain Crops in China
Agriculture, 2022 The agricultural sustainable development for human well-being considers food security and ecological health as well as people’s socio-economic conditions.
Jianing Wei +6 more
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Social life cycle assessment : specific approach and case study for Switzerland [PDF]
, 2018 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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Sectorial Investigation of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in the Context of Case Studies
Gazi Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri DergisiThe emergence of the concept of sustainability has brought with it the challenge of measuring this concept. Over the years, methods have been developed to assess the environmental impacts of sustainability using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), evaluate its ...
Seher Demir , Veysel Özdemir
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Life cycle approach to sustainability assessment : a case study of remanufactured alternators [PDF]
, 2012 Sustainability is an international issue with increasing concern and becomes a crucial driver for the industry in international competition. Sustainability encompasses the three dimensions: environment, society and economy.
Finkbeiner, Matthias +2 more
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Toward an overall analytical framework for the integrated sustainability assessment of the production and supply of raw materials and primary energy carriers [PDF]
, 2015 The sustainable production and supply of raw materials (nonenergy raw materials) and primary energy carriers (energy raw materials) is a core element of many policies. The natural resource base for their production and supply, and the access thereto, are
Blengini, Gian Andrea +5 more
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A Social Life Cycle Assessment Framework for Additive Manufacturing Products
Applied Sciences, 2020 Additive Manufacturing (AM) is viewed as a disruptive technology with the potential to replace many manufacturing processes. With its rapid proliferation in recent years, it is crucial to understand how to measure this technology’s social impacts.
Bardia Naghshineh +4 more
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Energy from waste and the food processing industry [PDF]
, 2012 The provision of a secure, continuous energy supply is becoming an issue for all sectors of society and the foodprocessingindustry as a major energy user must address these issues.
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