We invite submissions to the 7th international Social LCA conference, held in Göteborg, Sweden, 15-17 June, 2020.

With the theme Impacts – Interests – Interactions we want to acknowledge that social life cycle studies have diverse methods, are conducted in different contexts and with different effects. While there are social impacts related to decisions, also the social organisation of the life cycle matters for sustainability change. The conference offers an occasion to examine SLCA from methodological as well as social and practical perspectives.

All accepted abstracts will be published in the pre-proceedings book published in the FruiTrop Thema series, thanks to the generous contribution from CIRAD.

Submission Guidelines

The following submission categories are welcome:

• Posters
• Oral presentations

A short abstract (150 words) is required for all submissions. An extended 2-page abstract is required for oral presentations, and voluntary for poster presentations. A template for the extended abstract is provided – it is found following the link in the top right corner on the submission page.

To submit, prepare your abstract, and save your extended abstract as a PDF file. It is possible to modify an abstract until the submission page closes.

Please note that first-time users have to register as users of EasyChair.

Important dates

Submission closes: Dec 1, 2019 >> Dec 10, 2019
Notification of acceptance and receipt of reviewers' comments: end of January 2020
Final submission to pre-proceedings book: March 2020

List of Topics

You can indicate up to three topics for a submitted abstract.

• Theme 1. Methods for social impacts
  • Goal, scope and functional unit
  • Assessing negative/positive social impacts
  • Social inventory data and databases
  • Visualising social LCA results
• Theme 2. Methodological interests for applications
  • Social organisational LCA
  • Social LCA in policy
  • Social LCA in procurement
  • Social LCA in product design
  • Social LCA for NGOs
  • Social LCA for CSR
• Theme 3. Scientific positioning and methodological interactions
  • Complementarity and overlap between environmental and social LCA
  • Social LCA in life cycle sustainability assessment
  • Social science perspectives on social LCA
  • The value of a life cycle perspective for social assessment
• Theme 4. Impacts in practice
  • Role of social LCA in social change
  • Impact of social LCA on business practice
  • Documented improvements from social LCA
• Theme 5. Interests in the product chain
  • Business vs social interests
  • Actor perspectives along the life cycle
  • Social visions and goals
  • Equity and well-being
  • Legitimacy, trust and certification
• Theme 6. Interactions in the product chain
  • Communicating along product chains
  • Communicating social LCA results
  • Facilitation and round tabling
  • Actor interactions

Organizing committee

Professor Henrikke Baumann, Chalmers (chair)
Dr. Elisabeth Ekener, KTH (chair)
Sara Palander, Swedish Life Cycle Center
Maria Rydberg, Swedish Life Cycle Center
Associate Professor Rickard Arvidsson, Chalmers
Professor Sverker Molander, Chalmers
Ida Andersson, Chalmers

Venue

Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to: slca2020 [at] easychair.org