Social Life Cycle Assessment An Insight
This book details the primary concepts of Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), integration of social aspects in product life cycles, quantification of social impacts in S-LCA, impact categorization in S-LCA, methodological aspects of S-LCA, and detailed
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Social Life Cycle Assessment An Insight
Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes Series editor Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
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Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu Editor
Social Life Cycle Assessment An Insight
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Editor Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu Sustainability Consultant Global Sustainability Services, SGS (HK) Limited Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR
ISSN 2345-7651 ISSN 2345-766X (electronic) Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes ISBN 978-981-287-295-1 ISBN 978-981-287-296-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-296-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014960333 Springer Singapore Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer Science+Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd. is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Impacts made by products on environmental and social fronts are becoming more and more important these days. Environmental and social impact assessment by various products is no longer an option, rather a necessity, and the time is not very far away when the environmental and societal impact assessment of products and their declaration will become mandatory. The environmental assessment of products with their life cycle-based approach using life cycle assessment (LCA) is at an advanced stage and is widely used in many industrial sectors today. The social assessment of products is relatively new and currently under development and is not as advanced as that of environmental life cycle assessment (ELCA). Social life cycle assessment (SLCA) is a complementary approach to ELCA, used to assess the impacts pertaining to the social and sociological aspects of the products in their entire life cycles; it looks at all the life cycle ph
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