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Assessing the validity of impact pathways for child labour and well-being in social life cycle assessment
Date Issued
2010
ISSN
1614-7502
0948-3349
Citation
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2010, vol. 15, pp. 5-16.
Type
Peer Reviewed Journal Article
Abstract
Background, aim and scope
Assuming that the goal of social life cycle assessment (SLCA) is to assess damage and benefits on its ‘area of protection’ (AoP) as accurately as possible, it follows that the impact pathways, describing the cause effect relationship between indicator and the AoP, should have a consistent theoretical foundation so the inventory results can be associated with a predictable damage or benefit to the AoP. This article uses two concrete examples from the work on SLCA to analyse to what extent this is the case in current practice. One considers whether indicators included in SLCA approaches can validly assess impacts on the well-being of the stakeholder, whereas the other example addresses whether the ‘incidence of child labour’ is a valid measure for impacts on the AoPs.
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