Customized scoring and weighting approaches for quantifying and aggregating results in social life cycle impact assessment

Carmo, Breno Barros Telles do; Margni, Manuele; Baptiste, Pierre

doi:10.1007/s11367-017-1280-4

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“…Type I "provides a qualitative assessment of the social performance of a product system's activity" [72] (p. 2008). Important issues in type I SLCA methods involve the characterization step (what the inventory data is assessed against) and the weighting method.…”

Section: Methodological and Theoretical Concerns Related To S-lcamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The six most frequently used characterization methods in the literature are based: on norms and best practices, on norms and socio-economic context, on stakeholders' judgements of companies' compliance with norms, on researchers'/experts' judgement of companies' activities, on a distribution of performances, and on comparison of alternatives. "At the weighting step, the characterization results are given a different relative weight" [72] (p. 433), "based on the relative importance attributed to different subcategories (e.g., salary and working hours) inside an impact category (e.g., working conditions) and a stakeholder category (e.g., worker), or an equal weighting can be attributed to all results. It can also be based on the relative importance of the unit processes or the life cycle steps in the studied product system".…”

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Social Life-Cycle Assessment: A Review by Bibliometric Analysis

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This study examined the literature on social life-cycle assessment (S-LCA) published in the last 15 years (2003–2018) using bibliometric methods. Applying scientific mapping and analyzing publication performance, the study describes the structure of and trends in S-LCA publications in terms of related subject categories, authors, journals, countries, and highly cited articles. Challenges and research gaps in the S-LCA literature were also explored. The content of related papers published in the ISI Web of Science databases was examined to identify the main themes investigated, evolution of publication activity, and most representative elements. Analyses were conducted with SciMAT software. This tool enables researchers to map research specialties by extracting qualitative information in the specialized literature and representing it using quantitative measures. The results show rapid and exponential growth of the S-LCA research line in the past ten years, with a clear upward trend in related publications (mostly case studies), especially after publication of the UNEP/SETAC Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products in 2009: 66% of all articles published on S-LCA were published during the period 2015–2018, primarily by European authors. The findings also delineate S-LCA as a highly fragmented research field that has been applied to diverse sectors (agriculture, bioenergy, transport, water management, chemical products, electronics, etc.), mainly in non-European countries. Critical questions concerning methods, framework, paradigms, and indicators remain to be resolved. This study provides insight into the publication performance of S-LCA, characterizing its intellectual structure and salient authors and works. In identifying hotspots in the S-LCA research, the study provides a useful state-of-the-art reference guide for academics and reveals critical research gaps and potential research avenues for future studies to advance in consolidating the discipline.

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Section: Methodological and Theoretical Concerns Related To S-lcamentioning

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Section: Methodological and Theoretical Concerns Related To S-lcamentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Life-Cycle Assessment: A Review by Bibliometric Analysis

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“…As a result, no uniform and transparent approach exist and studies are rarely comparable. [ 112,116,117 ]…”

Section: Sustainability Of End Of Life Options: Beyond Lcamentioning

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Design for Recycling Strategies Based on the Life Cycle Assessment and End of Life Options of Plastics in a Circular Economy

Venkatachalam

Pohler

Spierling

et al. 2022

Macro Chemistry & Physics

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The plastic economy, despite offering unique properties in fulfilling the functions of products in different industrial sectors over decades, has so far been mainly linear, that is, "take-make and dispose" with only a small fraction of plastics being recycled worldwide. With ever-increasing circular economy initiatives and the urge to conserve resources and prevent plastic pollution from affecting ecosystems, more emphasis on the resource recovery of plastic products after its use has been made over the last few years. It is necessary for manufacturers to understand the value chain as early as the design phase while manufacturing and distributing plastic products across the world. The current study provides an overview of the status quo of plastic waste management and analyzes the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies of different End-of-Life (EoL) options for plastics. Based on the LCA studies, a preliminary, country-specific Circular Footprint (CF) is calculated and Design for Recycling (DfR) strategies are identified. Results show that the environmental impacts of different EoL options differ significantly for different plastics. The CF highlights the lack of data regarding the composition and recovery of plastics in different countries thus showing the necessity to consider the whole lifecycle when quantifying the environmental impacts of plastics.

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“…The developed social impact assessment method can give an accurate and reliable impact result since the characterized/inventory results can be improved by using the weighting factor of the importance of social aspects and satisfaction. However, the weighting score of the importance of social aspects and satisfaction are accounted as a traditional weighting score approach (linear scale score) (Carmo et al 2017b). The process for translating the qualitative performance of indicators into a quantitative assessment may not cover the complexity of the social indicators.…”

Section: Social Impact Using a Case Study Of Biofuel Systems Comprisimentioning

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Development of a social impact assessment method and application to a case study of sugarcane, sugar, and ethanol in Thailand

Sawaengsak

Olsen

Hauschild

et al. 2019

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Customized scoring and weighting approaches for quantifying and aggregating results in social life cycle impact assessment

Cited by 20 publications

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Social Life-Cycle Assessment: A Review by Bibliometric Analysis

Social Life-Cycle Assessment: A Review by Bibliometric Analysis

Design for Recycling Strategies Based on the Life Cycle Assessment and End of Life Options of Plastics in a Circular Economy

Development of a social impact assessment method and application to a case study of sugarcane, sugar, and ethanol in Thailand

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