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New opportunities for bioscaffold‐enabled spinal cord injury repair

BMEMat, EarlyView.
Schematic illustration of bioscaffolds for spinal cord injury repair. We summarize the effects of bioscaffold properties on SCI repair, highlight different types of bioscaffolds, various fabrication strategies, and in vivo transformations for the clinical development of SCI‐repairing bioscaffolds.
Xiaoqing Qi, Yicheng Fu, Zhaoliang Su, Li Li, Subrata Chakrabarti, Peng Li, Yilun Wu, Fang Liu, Teng Gao, Zhifeng Dong, Lei Liu, Pei Cao   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implications of mineral price volatility on the outcome of social life cycle assessment interpretation—a battery material case study

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
New research methods are needed to better understand the progress toward social sustainability goals. Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) is one way to measure this progress, but price volatility may cause challenges in using monetary value-based S-LCA ...
Anni Orola, V. Uusitalo, J. Levänen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards an overall framework to assess the sustainability of the use of natural resources [PDF]

, 2014
Over the years, the sustainable supply of natural resources for the global economy has drawn increasing political interest. The efficient use of resources is a fundamental issue for sustainability assessment, entailing and affecting environmental ...
Blengini, Gian Andrea, Dewulf, Jo, Mancini, Lucia, Pennington, David, Sala, Serenella   +4 more
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Life cycle assessment of drinking water: comparing conventional water treatment, reverse osmosis and mineral water in glass and plastic bottles [PDF]

, 2016
This study evaluated the environmental impacts caused by drinking water consumption in Barcelona (Spain) using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. Five different scenarios were compared: 1) tap water from conventional drinking water treatment; 2)
Cadena, Erasmo, Ferrer Martí, Ivet, Garfi, Marianna, Sanchez Ramos, David   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito, Judith M. Burkart, Carel van Schaik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

PSILCA database for social life cycle assessment: worker hours vs. raw values approach

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Progressive development within the research area of social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) has recently occurred, for example, GreenDelta introduced a new direct quantification approach using raw values in the PSILCA database.
Sally K. Springer, C. Wulf, P. Zapp
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluating the landscape of social assessment methods:integrating the social dimension in sustainability assessment of product value chains [PDF]

Purpose: We evaluate methodological approaches of different methods that can offer social assessments of product value chains. By analyzing both product-oriented social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) methods and qualitative, organization-, and project ...
Guinée, Jeroen, Heijungs, Reinout, Rocha, Carlos Felipe Blanco, Toboso-Chavero, Susana, van Dulmen, Nina   +4 more
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The District Energy-Efficient Retrofitting of Torrelago (Laguna de Duero – Spain) [PDF]

, 2019
The urban growth is estimated to reach up the 66 % by 2050 and consequently the need of resources within the cities will increase significantly. This, combined with the 40 % of energy consumption and 36 % of CO2 emissions of the building sector, makes ...
Arrizabalaga, E, Criado, C, De Castro, I, Gordaliza, A, Iturralde, J, Larrinaga, F, Macía, A, Massa, G, Pablos, L, Vallejo, E, Vasallo, A   +10 more
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Strategic Sustainability Assessment in the Construction Sector: A Multidimensional Index for Decision Making in Decentralised Economies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article evaluates the average business performance of construction firms across Spain's 17 autonomous communities within a decentralised governance framework. A regional composite sustainability index is developed, integrating economic, social and environmental intensity indicators.
Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz, Luis J. Belmonte‐Ureña, Pedro Fernandes da Anunciação, Francisco Camacho‐Ferre   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards social life cycle assessment of food delivery: findings from the Italian case study

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
The growth of global food delivery (FD), which could reach a market value of 1510 billion dollars by 2027, could raise significant sustainability concerns, especially in terms of the social impact related to the expansion of the gig economy.
M. Ruggeri, Mary Giò Zaki, Giuliana Vinci   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source