Social aspects for sustainability assessment of technologies - Challenges for social life cycle assessment (SLCA)

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1581-1592

  Lehmann, Annekatrin ^a,b   Zschieschang, Eva ^b,c   Traverso, Marzia ^a   Finkbeiner, Matthias ^a   Schebek, Liselotte ^b,d  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Institute of Industrial Ecology (INEC)   (Germany)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Indicators; Products; Social life cycle assessment (SLCA); Sustainability assessment; Technology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CASE STUDY; DECENTRALIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL LIFE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84884354384     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-013-0594-0     Document Type: Article

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