Bridging the Gaps in Social Life Cycle Assessment: Theoretical and Practical Contributions

• Autor(a) principal: Mohamad Radwan Omar Chabrawi, Arij
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Moura de Andrade, Josemberg, Traverzo, Marzia, Lie Ugaya, Cássia Maria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/42706
• topic: Social life cycle assessment, Social impact, Sustainable development, Labour psychology, Transdisciplinarity; Avaliação social do ciclo de vida, Impacto social, Desenvolvimento sustentável, Psicologia do trabalho, Transdisciplinaridade

Sustainable development is based on three pillars: environment preservation, cost-effective production and human development. Within this context, emerges Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a solid methodology for assessing the impact of products and services. Whereas Social LCA (S-LCA) is an early-stage approach, currently under development, requiring theoretical and methodological improvements. This study aimed at mapping the main gaps in S-LCA to identify potential contributions from the Psychology field. A preliminary literature review indicated several constraints: consensus between social indicators; methods for measuring subjective data; predominance of secondary data; underutilization of the Social Sciences, etc. Therefore, this study outlines multiples intersection points where the Social Sciences, more specifically, psychology could contribute to filling some of the theoretical and methodological gaps in S-LCA.