Development of Social Intensity Database Using Asian International Input–Output Table for Social Life Cycle Assessment

Papong, Seksan; Itsubo, Norihiro; Ono, Yuya; Malakul, Pomthong

doi:10.3390/su8111135

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“…The emperor's new clothes, like Whitmore (2006) describes the sustainable mining, are barely there and his dubiety is related to greenwashing actions, mistrusted dialogues and disclosure of information. Papong et al (2016) discuss the social sustainability considering the workers' issues in a way to assess social impacts, pointing out the mining industry in China as the one with the highest level of fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries.…”

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Mining and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Systematic Literature Review

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Klein

Xavier

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193 United Nations members are signatories of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Even though it does not make it legally binding to the country members, the SDGs establishment incites national and managerial frameworks to achieve the SDGs. The mining industry inserts itself in this context by its global presence and frequent location within ecologically sensitive and less developed areas. This paper aims to consolidate the state of academic research on mining, sustainability and sustainable development, by organizing the results of previous studies within a systematic review on the SDGs set. To do so, the ISI Web of Science TM Core Collection database was chosen as a database of record, as it is one of the most widespread databases of academic journals. We have used all years available in the ISI database, from 1945 to 2016 (for complete years). The systematic review process comprised of five steps: (i) to search terms [("sustainability" or "sustainable development") and mining] on the database and to apply filters of criteria; (ii) organizing papers; (iii) metrics and relations between papers and authors; (iv) classification of the results through content analysis techniques; and (v) synthesis. The results were divided in two groups: the highly cited and the most recent papers, to include papers that have academic impact and those which show the newest contributions to the field. The results showed that, in spite of a growing amount of publications in the past years that relates to mining and sustainability, the main focus of these publications are still on the environmental dimensions of the UN goals. This suggests that more practical and academic work in the mining sector are required to fill in the blank spaces regarding the other set of goals that compose the SDGs framework.

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Mining and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Systematic Literature Review

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Xavier

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“…Furthermore, it can depend on developed or developing countries. Indeed, a study shows that in the developing countries there is a high rate of employment and non-fatal injury intensities, while in the developed countries there is a higher rate of injuries and lower levels of employment [22]. Land-use and territorial aspects, environmental impacts affecting health and human rights, are the impacts of mining, emerging mainly from the review conducted by Mancini et al [23].…”

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

D’Eusanio

Serreli²,

Petti

2019

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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.

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“…Another opportunity found based on reviewing the literature on the macroeconomic level of SSC analysis is that only environmental and social impacts have been addressed, without examining integration within a 3BL context (Papong et al, 2016b;Xiao et al, 2017;Zimmer et al, 2017a). The challenge is that most social impacts are based on qualitative results.…”

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“…Thus, worker issues are considered crucial in assessing social impacts. This is the case since it can portray the effect of the supply chain on human well-being, as well as can be measured quantitatively, rigorously and consistently (Papong et al, 2016b). The social footprint indicators in this study consist of total employment, wages, working hours by skills, vulnerable employment, fatal occupational injury and nonfatal occupational injury.…”

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“…Therefore, the fatal and non-fatal injuries inputs were distributed and allocated to each industry in the WIOD according to the proportion of workers with injuries per economic sector. This was calculated based on the assumption that the proportion of workers with injuries for the major economic sectors, would be the same as for specific economic sectors under a major sector (Papong et al, 2016b). In the case of a country where the data is not available in the ILO database, secondary references were used.…”

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Design of global sustainable supply chains

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Increasing concern about the sustainability of supply chain operations is motivating companies and organizations to pursue strategies to reduce their contribution to global environmental and social negative impacts. While most papers in the field of sustainable supply chains have focused on economic and environmental performance at the firm level, recently some studies have considered the problem at the national level. However, there still exists a gap in quantitatively modeling social impacts, together with environmental and economic impacts, at the global level. To fill this gap, this research presents a multi-objective mathematical model for the design and planning of a supply chain, integrating the three dimensions of sustainability (economic, environmental, and social). In this research, the economic dimension of sustainability is addressed by considering the costs of the supply chain. Then MRIO, a national input-output table that describes the interdependencies between countries and economic sectors, is integrated with national environmental and social impacts to construct a triple bottom line (3BL) approach by industrial sectors. This model supports decision making by including both direct impacts, as well as indirect impacts, associated with upstream supply chain paths. This expands the range of impact considered in sustainable performance measurement both within and beyond the supply chain boundary. The integrated model can improve a company's ability to select supply chain partners based on a wider range of criteria, rather than being based on economics alone. A case study is conducted that considers three tiers of the transportation and equipment supply chain, which consists of six industrial sectors that are part of a larger system of fourteen industrial sectors operating across seventeen of the largest manufacturing countries in the world. The model is solved using a [epsilon]-constraint method; and the resulting Pareto optimal curves show the tradeoffs between the economic, environmental and social dimensions. The results reveal that indirect economic activities dominate when contributing to the environmental and social impact of the whole system. Expanding the scope of sustainability changes supply chain configuration decisions. Therefore, the primary result from this research is that firms and industry sectors need to change their focus from solely on economic aspects and include environmental and social aspects in supply chain decision making at operational and/or strategic levels of decisions.

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Development of Social Intensity Database Using Asian International Input–Output Table for Social Life Cycle Assessment

Cited by 5 publications

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Mining and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Systematic Literature Review

Mining and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Systematic Literature Review

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

Design of global sustainable supply chains

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