Accounting for social impacts of environmental damage

Stephan Pfister

ETH Zurich

Stephan Pfister is a senior research associate at ETH Zurich in the group of Ecological Systems Design. His methodological focus is on the impact assessment of water consumption and land use in Life cycle Assessment (LCA) with applications to agriculture and power production.

Abstract

1. Context Social LCA has focused in the past on worker conditions and to some extent on improving socio-economic conditions through added value. This is also reflected by the most comprehensive database, the SHDB. Although... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Stephan Pfister (ETH Zurich)
  2. Christopher Zimdars (ETH Zurich)
  3. Adrian Haas (ETH Zurich)

Topic Areas

Calculating product and organizational social footprints , Evaluating and improving supply chain impacts on human health and human well-being , Impact assessment methods

Session

OS-1C » Calculating product and organizational social footprints 1 (14:00 - Monday, 13th June, 1 Story street, Room 306)

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