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Extending social life cycle assessment to capture technological change: A case study in AI-driven laser manufacturing for the aerospace sector

open access: yesCleaner and Responsible Consumption
This study addresses a limitation in Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA): its reliance on value chain actors, which limits the detection of social impacts from technological changes in the core processes when supply chains are largely intact. We propose
Ricardo Mejía-Marchena   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Indicator‐Based Decision Framework for Circular Bioeconomy Transition in the Steel Industry: Integrating Multiphase Learning and Cooperative Game Modelling

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing attention to the circular bioeconomy (CBE), the steel industry currently lacks a standardised, sectoral measurement framework to facilitate a low‐carbon transition. In this study, a decision‐support framework for evaluating CBE performance in the steel industry is proposed.
Ali Zamani Babgohari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formalising Sustainability Management as a Core Process Group in Project Management

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a strategic imperative for organisations, yet widely used project management standards such as the PMBoK sixth and seventh editions still do not formalise how sustainability should be embedded across project work. This gap matters because PMBoK‐based processes shape governance, roles, documentation and performance ...
Cinzia Dessi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Impact Dimension of Seaweed Farming Blue Economy in Zanzibar

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy
Seaweed farming is one of the strategic productive sectors in Zanzibar as it contributes to employment and economic growth. It provides livelihood sources for small-scale coastal fishing communities.
Francis Mwaijande, Yusuph Rashidi
doaj   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence–Driven and Digital Practices for Circular Business and Finance: Insights for Advancing Hubs for Circularity

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The emerging concept of Hubs for Circularity (H4Cs) presents an opportunity to create collaborative, self‐sustaining regional industrial ecosystems that drive circular economy transitions at scale. However, the operationalisation of H4Cs faces financial, organisational and data‐driven challenges.
Aditya Tripathi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cascade Biorefinery of Furcellaria lumbricalis Macroalgae: Social Impacts and Integration into a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment

open access: yesEnvironmental and Climate Technologies
The sustainable valorization of marine biomass is central to advancing a circular bioeconomy. This study delivers the first integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) of a cascade biorefinery for the red macroalga Furcellaria lumbricalis ...
Paoli Riccardo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Weaving the Future: The Role of Novel Fibres and Molecular Traceability in Circular Textiles

open access: yesApplied Sciences
The textile sector provides essential goods, yet it remains environmentally and socially intensive, driven by high water use, pesticide dependent monocropping, chemical pollution during processing, and growing waste streams. This review examines credible
Sofia Pereira de Sousa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Corporations Operationalize Climate‐Related Risks and Opportunities: Evidence From Qualitative Expert Interviews

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate‐related risks and opportunities have become a central concern for companies as climate change increasingly affects business models, value chains, and long‐term competitiveness. However, limited evidence exists about how corporations confront the attendant practical and strategic challenges of climate‐related risk and opportunity ...
Sebastian Rhein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methodological gaps in automotive social life cycle assessment: insights from literature review and stakeholder engagement

open access: yesEuropean Transport Research Review
The automotive sector is a global driver of technological and economic progress, yet its social sustainability impacts remain insufficiently explored. Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) offers a framework to assess such impacts, but its application in ...
Davis Jose   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental and Social Impacts of Renewable Energy-Driven Centralized Heating/Cooling Systems: A Comparison with Conventional Fossil Fuel-Based Systems

open access: yesEnergies
Heating and cooling (H&C) account for nearly half of the EU’s energy consumption, with significant potential for decarbonization through renewable energy sources (RES) integrated in district heating and cooling (DHC) systems.
Javier Pérez Rodríguez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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