期刊
SUSTAINABILITY
卷 14, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su14095734
关键词
socio-economic impacts; product life cycle; engineered nanomaterials; nano-enabled products; life cycle thinking; social life cycle assessment; multi-criteria decision analysis; safe-and-sustainable-by-design
资金
- European Union [814401]
This manuscript presents an innovative approach to socio-economic assessment of advanced engineered nanomaterials and nano-enabled products to support safe-and-sustainable-by-design decision-making by industries. The methodology combines social life cycle analysis and multi-criteria decision analysis methods to assess socio-economic impacts over the full life cycle of a product. A user-friendly Excel-based self-assessment tool was developed to facilitate its application by industries.
This manuscript describes an innovative approach to socio-economic assessment of (advanced) engineered nanomaterials and nano-enabled products (NEPs) to support safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) decision making by industries in the early stages of product development. This semi-quantitative methodology is based on a sound conceptual framework grounded in the combination of social life cycle analysis and multi-criteria decision analysis methods and supports decision making based upon socio-economic impacts assessed over the full life cycle of a product. To facilitate its application by industries, the methodology was implemented as an Excel-based self-assessment tool. This easy-to-use, cost- and time-efficient tool can guide users through their SSbD decision making regarding newly developed nanomaterials and NEPs and can also be applied to re-evaluate existing materials and NEPs in order to improve their sustainability from a socio-economic perspective. The relatively low requirements of this tool regarding the level of efforts and expert knowledge needed for its application make it a good starting point for initial assessment to highlight socio-economic issues in the value chain. The results of this initial screening can be further used for more detailed analysis in the later stages of product development by performing a full social life cycle assessment (S-LCA).
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