Exploring Social Sustainability Handprint—Part 1: Handprint and Life Cycle Thinking and Approaches

Husgafvel, Roope

doi:10.3390/su132011286

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“…In addition, circular manufacturing strategies require a focus on standardization and data exploitation, taking into account social aspects and people as fundamental parts of the ecosystem [76]. For example, social aspects and people could be integrated into CE management and assessment through company-level CE metrics and indicators; CE criteria and indicators; use of data; and social sustainability metrics and approaches, such as the social sustainability handprint [77][78][79].…”

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Company Perspectives on Circular Economy Management, Assessment and Reporting in the Kymenlaakso Region in Finland

Husgafvel

2023

Sustainability

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In general, circular economy development is about a system-level change towards significantly enhanced circularity and sustainability encompassing both biological and technical cycles. This study aimed at exploring, identifying, analyzing and synthesizing how companies in the Kymenlaakso region perceive circular economy management, assessment and reporting. This study applied a qualitative research approach using a questionnaire survey as the specific method. The responding companies are of many sizes and represent multiple sectors such as industry, construction and various services. This study addressed a clear gap in research on company-level perspectives. The results indicate that recycling and recovery of materials are perceived as particularly important by companies. In addition, the principles of CE (10Rs) are considered to be important by most companies. Essential management approaches encompass, for example, CE strategy and goals, business ecosystems and development of markets for recycled and recovered products and parts. Companies considered that recycling, recovery, waste minimization and utilization of waste as a raw material, as well as an increase in recycled content in products, reduction in disposable products and prevention of premature obsolescence, are important CE assessment and measurement approaches. For example, continuous reporting of CE as a part of online communication of companies (i.a. sustainability and responsibility), the definition of best practices and best available techniques for CE, and reporting in the whole supply and value chain were perceived as important ways to report CE. However, it is noteworthy that many of the studied aspects of CE were not perceived to be important by companies. Overall, this study contributes to a better understanding of the current state of and future outlook on circular economy development in the studied region and also highlights relevant management, assessment and reporting aspects from the perspective of local companies.

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Company Perspectives on Circular Economy Management, Assessment and Reporting in the Kymenlaakso Region in Finland

Husgafvel

2023

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“…In addition, it would be essential to develop a severity weight for positive impacts. The social handprints-e.g., positive changes or impacts of product systems-can be created at many levels, such as the company or national level [97]. We would have liked to assess the positive impacts of LSM companies building hospitals and schools in the mining areas.…”

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Assessing WELBY Social Life Cycle Assessment Approach through Cobalt Mining Case Study

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The interconnected nature of social, environmental, and economic sustainability aspects must be considered in decision-making to achieve strong sustainability. Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) has been developed to better include social sustainability aspects into life cycle thinking. However, many of the current S-LCA impact assessment approaches have been developed only on a theoretical level, and thus more case studies are needed. We assess the challenges and opportunities of the S-LCA approach through a case study on cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Data for the case study were collected from scientific literature, reports, newspaper articles, and interview material. The applicability and possible strengths and weaknesses of the WELBY approach for the case were interpreted. The results showed that applying the WELBY approach in practice is possible, even though there is a lack of existing case studies. However, there are several challenges that must be addressed before the approach can be more widely used. The main challenge with the WELBY approach is the overestimation of impacts when adding multiple impact categories, as is recommended in the S-LCA guidelines. More case-specific severity weights should be developed to address this challenge. Moreover, the interpretation of the results from the perspective of informal work should be executed carefully. Even though the WELBY approach is promising, more methodological development is still needed to build a more ethical and reliable S-LCA methodology.

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“…Based on the above, the handprint concept could be defined as a solution-oriented approach, which promotes systemic thinking for sustainability and fosters individual and collective positive action, namely actions towards sustainable development (Centre of Environment Education [CEE], 2007;Gunawardene, 2008;Husgafvel, 2021; North American Association for Environmental Education [NAAEE], 2017; Times of India, April 7, 2013). Handprint is a symbol of, measure for, and commitment to sustainability (Pandya et al, 2013).…”

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The Handprint Initiative: Identifying learners’ attitudes towards the environment

Morel Schramm,

Ruz Salmones,

Robischon

2023

SAJEE

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The Handprint Initiative was born out of the need for a new pedagogical approach to deal with current global challenges. It is founded in the social responsibility of educators and learners to actively participate in the decision-making process of our society. To achieve this, there was the need for a statistical basis to measure learners’ attitudes towards the environment. A 19-item survey was used to determine five key attitudes in high school students in Mexico. With appropriate statistical tools (including PCA, KMO, normality tests and others), it was possible to measure ecocentrism, eco-apathy, naturalism, pessimism, and scientism attitudes and to confirm the data of other studies. The results of this study contribute to assessment of the impact of the way we teach, as well as the promotion of quality education and the implementation of the Handprint Initiative. Keywords: handprint; attitudes towards environment; eco-apathy; sustainability, quantitative study

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Exploring Social Sustainability Handprint—Part 1: Handprint and Life Cycle Thinking and Approaches

Cited by 10 publications

References 88 publications

Company Perspectives on Circular Economy Management, Assessment and Reporting in the Kymenlaakso Region in Finland

Company Perspectives on Circular Economy Management, Assessment and Reporting in the Kymenlaakso Region in Finland

Assessing WELBY Social Life Cycle Assessment Approach through Cobalt Mining Case Study

The Handprint Initiative: Identifying learners’ attitudes towards the environment

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