Perspectives on Social LCA

Marzia Traverso, full professor and head of the Institute and Chair of Sustainability in Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen University since 1 June 2017. PhD of Environmental Technical Physics of University of Palermo, and environmental engineer, working in the field of Life Cycle Assessment and sustainability performance of building, textile and transport sector. From May 2016 to April 2017 Scientific Officer at European Commission, JRC Seville in Product Bureau, responsible of the development of criteria for GPP on Street Lighting and Traffic signals, GPP of Transport and Framework for Building Sector. From Nov. 2011 to March 2016, she was project manager at the research and innovation centre of BMW Group. She was responsible of the sustainability performance and LCA of several cars, such as: BMW i3, BMW i8, 7series. From August 2008 to October 2011, she was post doc. scientific assistant and lecturer at the Chair of Sustainability Engineering of Technische Universitaet Berlin, main research topics were the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Social Life Cycle Assessment. Author and reviewer of several scientific papers in journals such as Sustainability, Int. Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Industrial Ecology. Subject editor in Social life cycle Assessment in the Int. Journal of LCA and member of editorial board of the “Sustainable Development” journal. Member of the Steering committee of Social LC Alliance and Italian Network of LCA and coordinator there for the working group of Social Life Cycle Assessment. Founder of a no-profit organization Information for Sustainable Development (iSuD). Luigia Petti, Associate Professor at the Department of Economic Studies, University “G. d’Annunzio” (UdA), Pescara (Italy) since 2002. Her research interests include: methodology and implementation of Environmental Management Tools, such as: Life Cycle Assessment (and simplified life-cycle-based tools), Quality Function Deployment for Environment, Ecolabelling, POEMS and Social LCA. She has published various papers on issues related to different sectors, such as agri-food, tourism, textile, etc. She has been teaching Environmental & Certification Management Systems and Quality management theory & practice at UdA. She took part in agreements with the Tokyo University, the UTFP University of Brazil, the IRSTEA Institute of France, and others. In 2005, she obtained the certification for teaching in the Ecolabel School of Chieti, where she taught Ecolabelling in touristic accommodation. Since 2007, she has participated in working groups on “LCA Tourism”, “Agri-food sector”, “Social LCA” in the framework of the Italian LCA Network. She is author of more than 130 pubblications and reviewer for several Scientific Journals. She is member of the Social LCA Alliance and coordinator of the working group on Goal & Scope Definition.Alessandra Zamagni, degree in Environmental Engineer, PhD in Life Cycle SustainabilityAnalysis. Since 2003 she has been working on LCA applied to new technologies, LCI data quality, environmental footprints (products and organisations), life cycle-based methods for sustainability, consequential LCA, social LCA, life cycle-based methodologies for Green Public Procurement, both in European funded projects and within companies. He takes part into the PEF Technical Secretariat of the Pilot on hot and cold water piping system, as external consultant, and she is appointed as external independent reviewer for LCA and PEF studies and datasets. She is appointed expert by the European Commission as reviewer of the ILCD Handbook, by international organisations (US EPA; UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiatives), and international companies, and she is reviewer of several scientific journals. She was co-chair of the SETAC Europe LCA Steering Committee (2011-2014) and member of the SETAC Global Coordination Group on LCA (2008-2014). She participated as invited expert to the SATORI dialogueevent, Stakeholders views on Ethics Assessment of Research and Innovation in 2016. She is Subject Editor of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment for the area Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment; Member of the Scientific Committee of several international conferences in the field of LCA and Social LCA; chair and co-chair of international conferences on LCA and Social LCA. Advisor on SLCA for companies, since 2015 she is member of the committee of the Italian Network on LCA. She is member of the Social LCA Alliance, and coordinator of the working group on review criteria for Social LCA studies.

• Chapter 1. Functional Unit Definition Criteria in Life Cycle Assessment and Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Discussion (Arzoumanidis).- Chapter 2. Towards a Taxonomy For Social Impact Pathway Indicators (Weidema).- Chapter 3. A New Scheme For The Evaluation Of Socio-Economic Performance Of Organizations: A Well-Being Indicator Approach (di Cesare).- Chapter 4. Structure of a Net Positive Analysis For Supply Chain Social Impacts (Norris).- Chapter 5. Weighting and Scoring In Social Life Cycle Assessment (Telles do Carmo).- Chapter 6. Beyond a CSR Context Towards Methodological Pluralism in S-LCA: Exploring Alternative Social Theoretical Perspectives (Baumann).- Chapter 7. Sustainable Guar Initiative, Social Impact Characterization of an Integrated Sustainable Project (vuaillat). Chapter 8. Generation, Calculation and Interpretation of Social Impacts with the Social Analysis Of Seebalance® (Saling).- Chapter 9. Proposal of Social Indicators to Assess The Social Performance of Waste Management Systems in Developing Countries: A Brazilian Case Study (Ibañez-Forés).- Chapter 10. Social Assessment in the Design Phase of Automotive Component Using the Product Social Impact Assessment Method (Zanchi).- Chapter 11. Social Life Cycle Assessment in Agricultural Systems – U.S. Corn Production as a Case Study (Frank).