Subcategory assessment method for social life cycle assessment. Part 1: methodological framework

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 1515-1523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Karina Sanchez Ramirez ◽  
Luigia Petti ◽  
Nara Tudela Haberland ◽  
Cássia Maria Lie Ugaya
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Subcategory Assessment Method

Subcategory assessment method for social life cycle assessment. Part 2: application in Natura’s cocoa soap

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Karina Sanchez Ramirez ◽  
Luigia Petti ◽  
Fabien Brones ◽  
Cássia Maria Lie Ugaya
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Subcategory Assessment Method

An Italian tomato “Cuore di Bue” case study: challenges and benefits using subcategory assessment method for social life cycle assessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigia Petti ◽  
Paola Karina Sanchez Ramirez ◽  
Marzia Traverso ◽  
Cassia Maria Lie Ugaya
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Subcategory Assessment Method

A novel social life cycle assessment method for determining workers’ human development: a case study of the sugarcane biorefineries in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Souza ◽  
Marcos D. B. Watanabe ◽  
Otavio Cavalett ◽  
Marcelo Cunha ◽  
Cássia M. L. Ugaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment

scholarly journals Social Life-Cycle Assessment of a Piece of Jewellery. Emphasis on the Local Community

Resources ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela D’Eusanio ◽  
Monica Serreli ◽  
Luigia Petti
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
The Social

An increasing global focus on sustainability has affected the jewellery industry by raising questions about its environmental and social impacts and ethics due to the negative impacts of gold mining. It is essential to consider the social aspects of mining activities on the socio-economic environment and the affected individuals in order to understand the sustainability of the jewellery industry in a better way. Nonetheless, this is a gap in the evaluation of the issues of jewellery in the other phases of the life cycle, observed in the literature. For these reasons, the goal of this study is to assess the social and socio-economic aspects of a piece of jewellery from the artisan’s point of view by considering the relationship between a piece of jewellery and the local community. The United National Environmental Programme/Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (UNEP/SETAC) Guidelines on Social Life-Cycle Assessment, the UNEP/SETAC Methodological Sheets and the Subcategory Assessment Method were implemented. The findings show that a piece of jewellery can play an important role in supporting the local cultural heritage by innovating the traditional product, and promoting educational activities related to the history of the product and the territory. Consequently, the local community with its historical background gives an added value to the piece of jewellery. Further research on this topic is desirable in order to improve the knowledge of this particular sector and to identify other social issues that can be involved in this product.

scholarly journals Development of a methodological framework for social life-cycle assessment of novel technologies

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berthe van Haaster ◽  
Andreas Ciroth ◽  
João Fontes ◽  
Richard Wood ◽  
Andrea Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Novel Technologies

scholarly journals Integrating Regionalized Socioeconomic Considerations onto Life Cycle Assessment for Evaluating Bioeconomy Value Chains: A Case Study on Hybrid Wood–Concrete Ceiling Elements

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4221
Author(s):  
Alberto Bezama ◽  
Jakob Hildebrandt ◽  
Daniela Thrän
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Lightweight Concrete ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Development Scenarios ◽  
Industrial Sectors

As bioeconomy strategies strive to integrate industrial sectors for achieving innovative materials alternative to the ones produced from non-renewable resources, the development of monitoring systems and tools to assess the implementation of such value chains is still a work in progress. This work intended to integrate the traditional life cycle assessment with a regionalized social life cycle assessment method to evaluate alternative production scenarios of a hybrid construction system with a wood-based lightweight concrete panel as a core component currently in its final stages of technical development. The life cycle impact assessment was carried out by comparing the relative advantages of two product development scenarios against the reference system’s results. The social life cycle assessment was carried out using the model “REgional SPecific cONtextualised Social life cycle Assessment” (RESPONSA), which was developed for assessing wood-based value chains under a regional scope. The results showed that both alternative scenarios present large advantages when compared to the reference system. Moreover, the implementation of the production value chain was found to imply positive socioeconomic advantages in the region, in particular, due to the quality of the jobs found in the organizations associated with the production system.

scholarly journals Developing social life cycle assessment based on corporate social responsibility: A chemical process industry case regarding human rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 120564
Author(s):  
Georgios Archimidis Tsalidis ◽  
Elena de Santo ◽  
Jose Jorge Espí Gallart ◽  
Joan Berzosa Corberá ◽  
Frederic Clarens Blanco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Chemical Process ◽  
Process Industry ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Chemical Process Industry ◽  
Corporate Social

scholarly journals Are Renewables as Friendly to Humans as to the Environment?: A Social Life Cycle Assessment of Renewable Electricity

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shutaro Takeda ◽  
Alexander Keeley ◽  
Shigeki Sakurai ◽  
Shunsuke Managi ◽  
Catherine Norris
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Solar Photovoltaic ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Electricity Mix ◽  
The Impact

The adoption of renewable energy technologies in developing nations is recognized to have positive environmental impacts; however, what are their effects on the electricity supply chain workers? This article provides a quantitative analysis on this question through a relatively new framework called social life cycle assessment, taking Malaysia as a case example. Impact assessments by the authors show that electricity from renewables has greater adverse impacts on supply chain workers than the conventional electricity mix: Electricity production with biomass requires 127% longer labor hours per unit-electricity under the risk of human rights violations, while the solar photovoltaic requires 95% longer labor hours per unit-electricity. However, our assessment also indicates that renewables have less impacts per dollar-spent. In fact, the impact of solar photovoltaic would be 60% less than the conventional mix when it attains grid parity. The answer of “are renewables as friendly to humans as to the environment?” is “not-yet, but eventually.”

scholarly journals Sustainable Agri-Food Processes and Circular Economy Pathways in a Life Cycle Perspective: State of the Art of Applicative Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2472
Author(s):  
Teodora Stillitano ◽  
Emanuele Spada ◽  
Nathalie Iofrida ◽  
Giacomo Falcone ◽  
Anna Irene De Luca
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Qualitative Synthesis

This study aims at providing a systematic and critical review on the state of the art of life cycle applications from the circular economy point of view. In particular, the main objective is to understand how researchers adopt life cycle approaches for the measurement of the empirical circular pathways of agri-food systems along with the overall lifespan. To perform the literature review, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol was considered to conduct a review by qualitative synthesis. Specifically, an evaluation matrix has been set up to gather and synthesize research evidence, by classifying papers according to several integrated criteria. The literature search was carried out employing scientific databases. The findings highlight that 52 case studies out of 84 (62% of the total) use stand-alone life cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate the benefits/impacts of circular economy (CE) strategies. In contrast, only eight studies (9.5%) deal with the life cycle costing (LCC) approach combined with other analyses while no paper deals with the social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) methodology. Global warming potential, eutrophication (for marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems), human toxicity, and ecotoxicity results are the most common LCA indicators applied. Only a few articles deal with the CE assessment through specific indicators. We argue that experts in life cycle methodologies must strive to adopt some key elements to ensure that the results obtained fit perfectly with the measurements of circularity and that these can even be largely based on a common basis.

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