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7. Theory and Practice on Social Life Cycle Assessment

Authors : Alessandra Zamagni, Laura Zanchi, Silvia Di Cesare, Federica Silveri, Luigia Petti

Published in: Life Cycle Engineering and Management of Products

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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The social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) has emerged as a methodological approach aimed at evaluating social and socio-economic aspects of products and organisations, and their potential positive and negative impacts along their life cycle. Through the UNEP-SETAC Guidelines for S-LCA of products, recently revised and improved, and the complementary methodological sheets, the field of S-LCA started establishing a framework building on the ISO 14040 and 14044 LCA standards. As the international context becomes increasingly demanding for social issues, S-LCA offers a comprehensive approach for helping companies to be compliant with ONU’s sustainable development goals. Thanks to its complementarity with other reporting tools and standards, S-LCA can be used in combination with other techniques or tools to provide further information and help linking social impacts at the company level to the product’s life cycle stages.

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Title: Theory and Practice on Social Life Cycle Assessment
Authors: Alessandra Zamagni
Laura Zanchi
Silvia Di Cesare
Federica Silveri
Luigia Petti
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Life Cycle Engineering and Management of Products
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-78043-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-78044-9

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78044-9_7