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Preface

The Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) is officially recognised to be part of Life
Cycle Thinking (LCT), and since May 2018, it is again a topic under the umbrella of
the UN Environment Life Cycle Initiative activities. In fact, the current guidelines,
published by UNEP Life Cycle Initiative in 2009, are under revision, in the frame-
work of a project sponsored by the Life Cycle Initiative, and their launch with
relative pilot projects, is expected at LCM2019 Conference in September 2019. In
the last 10 years, several S-LCA developments and implementations have been
carried out, increasing the importance of the S-LCA in both private and public
sectors. Given the economic crisis, attention has been brought on the social compo-
nent of the sustainability both in Europe and in the developed countries more in
general, highlighting that the management of the social issues is not only a need but
also an opportunity, because it further qualifies the product/service on the market. In
addition, it is an opportunity to reward those organisations that are already creating
social value through the reinvestment of their profits into cultural and social initia-
tives for the community. In other words, organisations can be the leverage for social
value creation, and their competitiveness can benefit from it. For this reason, the
interest of the policy-makers has increased in order to identify the positive and
negative social hotspots generated by a product or a company in different local
contests.
The S-LCA conferences have today reached the sixth version and it is today an
international event that allows experts and non-experts from the academy, industry
and policy to meet and exchange on this topic and to discuss its challenges. Several
improvements and more interest from stakeholders outside the scientific community
have been registered since the first seminar held in Lyngby at the Technical
University of Denmark on 31 May 2010, promoted by Dr. Louise Camilla Dreyer.
The aim of the sixth International Conference on S-LCA People&Places4Partnership
is to discuss about the key role of S-LCA as a decision-making tool in the definition
of strategies for social sustainability, thus supporting both public and private busi-
nesses in making more informed decisions. In this conference, three sessions have
been organised: scientific presentations, industry sessions and a policy workshop to

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vi Preface

underline the necessity to discuss the potentials, challenges and gaps of S-LCA at
different levels. The conference has registered more than 130 participants and more
than 60 contributions, whose abstracts are reported in the conference proceedings. A
limited number of full papers have been selected to be published in this book to
represent the state of the art and some of the current initiatives and implementations
of S-LCA. The book starts with few examples on further developments of the S-LCA
phases, in particular: the definition of the functional unit, in the framework of the
goal and scope phase (Arzoumanidis et al. 2018), and the definition and develop-
ment of impact pathway and weighting approaches in the impact assessment phase
(Weidema 2018, Di Cesare et al. 2018, Benoit-Norris et al. 2018 and Breno et al.
2018). Then, some examples of alternative approaches are presented, developed in
the industrial context to measure the social impact (Baumann et al. 2018, Saling et al.
2018, and Vuaillat et al. 2018). Finally, three contributions are focusing on practical
implementations of S-LCA to different activity sectors: waste management (Ibañez-
Forés et al. 2018), automotive components (Zanchi et al. 2018) and agriculture
system (Frank 2018).

Aachen, Germany M. Traverso

Bologna, Italy A. Zamagni
Pescara, Italy L. Petti
Contents

1 Functional Unit Definition Criteria in Life Cycle Assessment

and Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ioannis Arzoumanidis, Manuela D’Eusanio, Andrea Raggi,
and Luigia Petti
2 Towards a Taxonomy for Social Impact Pathway Indicators . . . . . 11
Bo P. Weidema
3 A New Scheme for the Evaluation of Socio-Economic Performance
of Organizations: A Well-Being Indicator Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Silvia Di Cesare, Alfredo Cartone, and Luigia Petti
4 Structure of a Net Positive Analysis for Supply Chain
Social Impacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Catherine Benoit Norris, Gregory A. Norris, Lina Azuero,
and John Pflueger
5 Weighting and Scoring in Social Life Cycle Assessment . . . . . . . . . 45
Breno Barros Telles do Carmo, Sara Russo Garrido, Gabriella Arcese,
and Maria Claudia Lucchetti
6 Beyond a Corporate Social Responsibility Context Towards
Methodological Pluralism in Social Life Cycle Assessment:
Exploring Alternative Social Theoretical Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Henrikke Baumann and Rickard Arvidsson
7 Sustainable Guar Initiative, Social Impact Characterization
of an Integrated Sustainable Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Marie Vuaillat, Alain Wathelet, and Paul Arsac
8 Generation, Calculation and Interpretation of Social Impacts
with the Social Analysis of SEEbalance® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Peter Saling, Ana Alba Perez, Peter Kölsch, and Thomas Grünenwald

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9 Proposal of Social Indicators to Assess the Social Performance

of Waste Management Systems in Developing Countries:
A Brazilian Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Valeria Ibañez-Forés, María D. Bovea,
and Claudia Coutinho-Nóbrega
10 Social Assessment in the Design Phase of Automotive Component
Using the Product Social Impact Assessment Method . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Laura Zanchi, Alessandra Zamagni, Silvia Maltese,
Rubina Riccomagno, and Massimo Delogu
11 Social Life Cycle Assessment in Agricultural Systems – U.S. Corn
Production as a Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Markus Frank, Thomas Laginess, and Jan Schöneboom
Chapter 1
Functional Unit Definition Criteria in Life
Cycle Assessment and Social Life Cycle
Assessment: A Discussion

Ioannis Arzoumanidis, Manuela D’Eusanio, Andrea Raggi, and Luigia Petti

Abstract The definition of a Functional Unit (FU) is essential for building and
modelling a product system in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). A FU is a quantified
description of the function of a product that serves as the reference basis for all
calculations regarding impact assessment. A function may be based on different
features of the product under study, such as performance, aesthetics, technical
quality, additional services, costs, etc. Whilst the FU definition is typical in LCA,
this does not seem to be a common practice in Social Life Cycle Assessment
(S-LCA), even though a FU definition is required. Unlike LCA, where quantitative
data are mainly collected and processed, the assessment of the social and socio-
economic impacts in S-LCA is based on a prevalence of qualitative and semi-
quantitative data, a fact that renders the assessment to be somehow unfriendly.
Moreover, whilst in LCA a product-oriented approach is typical, S-LCA tends to
be a business-oriented methodology, where the emphasis of the social assessment
lies on the behaviour of the organisations that are involved in the processes under
study rather than on the function that is generated by a product. Indeed, several S-
LCA case studies were found in the literature in which the FU is not discussed, let
alone defined. The objective of this article is to contribute to analysing the criteria
used for the definition of a FU in LCA and verifying whether these criteria can be
suitable for S-LCA case studies applications. For this reason, a literature review was
carried out on LCA in order to identify whether and how this issue has been tackled
with so far. In addition, a second literature review was performed in order to verify
how the FU has been introduced in the framework of the S-LCA methodology.
Finally, an investigation of the analysis results, in terms of the selected FU, is
proposed in view of an ever-growing need for a combination of the LCA and S-
LCA methodologies into a broader Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA).

I. Arzoumanidis (*) · M. D’Eusanio · A. Raggi · L. Petti

Department of Economic Studies (DEc), University “G. d’Annunzio”, Pescara, Italy
e-mail: [email protected]

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