Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Social Life Cycle Assessment

An Insight

  • Book
  • © 2015

Overview

Editors:
  1. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

    1. Sustainability Consultant, Global Sustainability Services, SGS (HK) Limited, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Highlights the methodological and structural aspects of S-LCA
  • Includes case studies on S-LCA for various industrial segments
  • Details the challenges and future of S-LCA
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 89.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. A Review of Social Life Cycle Assessment Methodologies

    • Yi Fan, Ruqun Wu, Jiquan Chen, Defne Apul
    Pages 1-23

  3. Socioeconomic LCA of Milk Production in Canada

    • Jean-Pierre Revéret, Jean-Michel Couture, Julie Parent
    Pages 25-69

  4. Social Life Cycle Assessment in the South African Sugar Industry: Issues and Views

    • Takalani Musundwa Nemarumane, Charles Mbohwa
    Pages 71-113

  5. Social Life Cycle Assessment Application: Stakeholder Implication in the Cultural Heritage Sector

    • G. Arcese, L. Di Pietro, R. Guglielmetti Mugion
    Pages 115-146

  6. Assessment of Social Impacts of Chemical and Food Products in the Czech Republic

    • Jan Vavra, Simona Munzarova, Marie Bednarikova
    Pages 147-197

  7. Partial Organization and Social LCA Development: The Creation and Expansion of an Epistemic Community

    • Catherine Benoît Norris, Jean-Pierre Revéret
    Pages 199-226

  8. Social Life Cycle Assessment in a Managerial Perspective: An Integrative Approach for Business Strategy

    • G. Arcese, M. C. Lucchetti, O. Martucci
    Pages 227-252
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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 case studies. As the societal implications of producing a product are coming to take on a new importance, the concept of Social Life Cycle Assessment has recently been developed and is becoming increasingly prominent. However, S-LCA is still in its infancy and its impact categories for many industrial segments are still under development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sustainability Consultant, Global Sustainability Services, SGS (HK) Limited, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

    Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

About the editor

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan is currently working for SGS as a global sustainability consultant, based at Hong Kong. He gained his diploma, bachelors and masters in Textile Technology from premier institutes of India. He was awarded doctorate from The Institute of Textiles and Clothing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for his dissertation entitled,” Eco-functional Assessment of Grocery Shopping Bags” He also has more than seven years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, testing and sustainability evaluation of textiles and clothing materials. He was an outstanding student throughout his studies and bagged numerous awards and medals including many gold medals in his study period. He has more than 75 academic publications in various textiles and environmental journals to his credit. Additionally he has 2 patents, 2 books of chapter and 4 books and numerous conference publications. He is acting as an editor, editorial board member and reviewer for many international peer-reviewed journals of textiles and environmental science disciplines. He is one of the directors of Textile and Bioengineering Informatics Society, (TBIS) which is a charitable organization created to foster, develop and promote all aspects of science and technology in bioengineering of materials, fibers and textiles.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation