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标题：A Practical Approach for Social Life Cycle Assessment in the Automotive Industry
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作者：Hannah Karlewski ; Annekatrin Lehmann ; Klaus Ruhland 等
期刊名称：Resources
电子版ISSN：2079-9276
出版年度：2019
卷号：8
期号：3
页码：146-205
DOI：10.3390/resources8030146
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Identifying social impacts along the life cycle of their products is becoming increasingly important for companies. Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) as a possible tool has not been conducted so far within industries with complex international supply chains using mainly company-specific data. As a novelty, this work presents a practical SLCA approach along with the first case studies for the automotive industry, based on a previously developed indicator set and an extensive data collection. Social data was collected from companies along the life cycle of two specific car components, while analyzing data availability, validity and comparability. To obtain product references, both a top-down and a bottom-up approach for quantitative indicators based on time effort and data availability on the process level were devised. Also, two options were developed for how qualitative indicators (e.g., written principles for Corruption) can be applied together with quantitative performance indicators (e.g., number of accidents). The general practical applicability of the approach could be demonstrated by four quantitative and seven qualitative indicators. It is a first step towards analyzing the social performance of products with complex supply chains on a company level. Remaining challenges include social data availability and quality and obtaining data at the process level (allocation). These should be addressed in future studies.
关键词：social life cycle assessment; automotive industry; case study; social data collection social life cycle assessment ; automotive industry ; case study ; social data collection