Impact pathways to address social well-being and social justice in SLCA-Fair wage and level of education

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4839-4857

  Neugebauer, Sabrina ^a   Traverso, Marzia ^b   Scheumann, René ^a   Chang, Ya Ju ^a   Wolf, Kirana ^a   Finkbeiner, Matthias ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Education; Fair wage; Impact pathway; Social justice; Social life cycle assessment; Social well being

Indexed keywords

EQUITY; ETHNICITY; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL INDICATOR; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EID: 84906347208     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6084839     Document Type: Article

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