The guidelines for social life cycle assessment of products: just in time!

Chevrier, Benoît; Norris, Gregory A.; Valdivia, Sonia; Ciroth, Andreas; Moberg, Åsa; Bos, Ulrike; Prakash, Surya; Ugaya, Cássia Maria Lie; Beck, Tabea

doi:10.1007/s11367-009-0147-8

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“…Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) is a rather novel method, aimed at assessing social impacts from products and services all along the product life cycle [79]. It is based on LCA, using the same methodological approach, but addressing social instead of environmental impacts.…”

Section: Social Life Cycle Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methods for assessing future scenarios from a sustainability perspective

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Future scenarios are often used to address long-term challenges characterised by uncertainty and complexity, as they can help explore different alternative future pathways. Scenarios can therefore be a useful tool to support policy and guide action towards sustainability. But what sustainability aspects are put forward in scenarios and how are they assessed? This paper aims to explore how to assess future scenarios, categorised according to Börjeson et al. (Futures 38:723-739, 2006) i.e. predictive, explorative and normative scenarios. By conducting a literature review and a document analysis, we map tools and methods that are currently used to assess environmental and social sustainability aspects in scenarios. We also draw on experiences from methods for impact assessments of Swedish municipal comprehensive plans, which can be considered as future scenarios. We identify whether some sustainability aspects are less recurrent than others in the reviewed assessments or even left out. We find that there is no single tool that can be used to assess scenarios. Some quantitative tools based on databases may be more suitable for assessing scenarios within a shorter time horizon, whereas qualitative assessment methods might better fit the purpose of long-term transformative scenarios. We also find that assessment frameworks may be useful to guide the assessment, as to what its intended purpose is and which sustainability aspects to include. Finally we discuss whether further assessment tools are needed in order to include a wider array of potential environmental or social consequences of the content of scenarios.

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Section: Social Life Cycle Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methods for assessing future scenarios from a sustainability perspective

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“…Life Cycle Costing, LCC (Norris, 2001), treats questions concerning cost. Social LCA, S-LCA (Benoît et al 2010), has recently been proposed to study social aspects. Maxwell and van der Vorst (2003) proposed a method for sustainable product service development.…”

Section: Sustainability ?mentioning

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Collaborative network with SMEs providing a backbone for urban PSS: a model and initial sustainability analysis

Mathieux

Brissaud

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Production Planning & Control

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Abstract. High-technology SMEs have regularly shown their capacities for creating and developing innovative services. However, their reduced size often confines them to vertical applications and limits the possibilities for broader development. Strategies grouping SMEs into collaborative networks are possible but sometimes need a strong leader to ensure credibility. On the other hand, large integrator-operators cannot be proficient in all the necessary domains, particularly when applications move very fast. They very much need the diversity and the dynamics of these SMEs to provide service packages with a common service backbone. Uniting the different actors is a challenge displaying good promises from various perspectives including sustainability. However it is necessary that the links between the different partners and their corresponding activities be correctly represented in a model to be understood. This paper proposes a new model for activities and processes in firms collaborating together in a network. The clearer understanding of organization acquired with the model is then used to discuss sustainability issues within the network.

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“…These perspectives are sometimes separated, as social sustainability has been harder to define and quantify compared to ecological impacts. However, recent work with guidance on social responsibility by the International Standard Organization (SS-ISO, 2010) and UNEP's suggested guidelines for social life-cycle assessment of products (Benoît and Mazijn, 2009) as well as research, e.g., Missimer et al (2017), have taken this a step further.…”

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Integrating Sustainability in Product Requirements

Watz¹,

Hallstedt²

2018

Design Conference Proceedings

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Trade-offs between sustainability criteria and engineering design variables can lead to sub-optimisations and costly short-term priorities. This study explores how sustainability requirements can be identified and integrated in product requirements to guide strategic and tactical decisions in product development including sustainability perspectives. Literature review and action research resulted in a proposed systematic approach that: define sustainability criteria and indicators; use correlation analysis with QFD; and adds identified specific sustainability requirements to requirement list.

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The guidelines for social life cycle assessment of products: just in time!

Cited by 459 publications

References 9 publications

Methods for assessing future scenarios from a sustainability perspective

Methods for assessing future scenarios from a sustainability perspective

Collaborative network with SMEs providing a backbone for urban PSS: a model and initial sustainability analysis

Integrating Sustainability in Product Requirements

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