Journal title CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Author/s Pietro De Giovanni, Michele Costabile
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/1
Language English Pages 17 P. 127-143 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/cgrds1-2025oa19332
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation
click here
FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.
This paper presents an overview of the measures linked to social and environmental sustainability. Then, it proposes an empirical analysis of these impacts with an example of cotton production in India. The application of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), as outlined by ISO 14040, allows one to quantify both the social and the environmental impact and define a strategy to mitigate both of them simultaneously.Hence, the paper presents a set of trade-offs emerging when companies seek to optimize both environmental and social impact of their businesses. We demonstrate that, through the adoption of LCA, the pair social and environmental impact can be simultaneously optimized and sustainable strategies can be effectively created.
Keywords: ; Environmental impact; Social impact; LCA; Performance
Pietro De Giovanni, Michele Costabile, Quantifying Social and Environmental Impacts through the Life Cycle Assessment in "CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES" 1/2025, pp 127-143, DOI: 10.3280/cgrds1-2025oa19332