State of the art in S-LCA: integrating literature review and automatic text analysis

• Published in: The international journal of life cycle assessment Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 394 - 405
• Main Authors: Arcese, Gabriella, Lucchetti, Maria Claudia, Massa, Ilaria, Valente, Clara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.03.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Automatic text analysis; Chemical synthesis; Classification; code of practice; Data mining; Earth and Environmental Science; ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Economics; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology; guidelines; Language; Life cycle analysis; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle engineering; Life cycles; Literature reviews; principal component analysis; Principal components analysis; Social Lca in Progress; State-of-the-art reviews; Statistical analysis; Toxicology; United Nations Environment Programme; Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA); Literature review; Approaches synthesis; Automatic text analysis (ATA); Principal component analysis (PCA)

Purpose Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) method lacks of standard and code of practice. The aim of the study is to classify the wide variety of contributions on S-LCA for tracking the development of different themes and for defining and classifying the main approaches in a systematic and reprodu...