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- Highlights social accounting and its development in recent years
- Describes the footprints of those social accounts that have the highest impact on people’s well-being
- Also highlights the implications of international trade on labour in developing countries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes (EFEPP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The content is presented in two parts, the first of which offers an introduction to social accounting and how it has been developed over the past few years with details on the methodologies and databases used. The second part of the book describes the footprints of the social accounts that have the highest impact on people’s well-being (employment, income, working conditions,and inequality) and how they are linked to international trade. The need for reporting on such indicators falls within the purview of corporate/national social responsibility (part of the Triple Bottom Line). The book offers a valuable contribution to the literature for researchers and students engaged in the social sciences, human rights, and the implications of international trade on labour in developing countries.iv>
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Authors and Affiliations
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School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Ali Alsamawi, Joy Murray, Manfred Lenzen
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Sustainable Development, Thai Union Group, Bangkok, Thailand
Darian McBain
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Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Kirsten S. Wiebe
About the authors
Darian McBain is a PhD student with ISA at the University of Sydney and is working on social indicators for Input-Output Analysis. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of New South Wales and an MSc in Business Strategy, Politics and Environment from the University of London. Darian has worked in both the UK and Australia advising governments and the private sector on sustainability strategy and sustainable supply chain management. Upon returning to Australia in 2007, Darian cofounded the consultancy Blue Sky Green to develop sustainable solutions for businessesand government.
Dr. Joy Murray is Senior Research Fellow at Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. She joined the group in 2003 as manager of a two-year action research project working with representatives from business and industry, government and non-government organisations to develop a user-friendly software tool driven by the ISA TBL methodology. Joy is also working with residents of government housing estates in Eastern Sydney on a project to build leadership capacity. In a previous life she was the New South Wales manager of the state government’s IT training strategy for teachers. Her PhD from Wollongong University centred on cybernetics and teacher learning. She has co-authored/edited four books and published numerous papers on her work in education and ISA.
Dr. Manfred Lenzen is Professor of Sustainability Research at Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) in the School of Physics at the University ofSydney. Manfred has a PhD in Nuclear Physics and 15 years of experience in renewable energy technologies. He has undertaken extensive experimental research on passive solar architecture. He is an international leader in economic Input-Output Analysis and Life-Cycle Assessment, is Associate Editor for the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Economic Systems Research. He has contributed major methodological advances as well as numerous applications, in particular on embodied energy and greenhouse gas emissions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Social Footprints of Global Trade
Authors: Ali Alsamawi, Darian McBain, Joy Murray, Manfred Lenzen, Kirsten S. Wiebe
Series Title: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4137-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4135-8Published: 18 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5058-0Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4137-2Published: 09 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2345-7651
Series E-ISSN: 2345-766X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 130
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Industrial and Production Engineering, Social Policy, Operations Management, Sustainable Development