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Patricia Osseweijer, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences

Social assessment of a process design

From assessment to social development

Social sustainability is part of overall impact

People Profit Planet PPP (People-planet-profit) concept:

Weakness in any of these may lead to a “no-go”

Bearable Equitable Viable Sustainable

Sustainability: “A Safe and Just Space for Humanity”

After Oxfam, 2012

Methods for social impact assessment

Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) UNEP/SETAC*

• Stakeholder categories: from stakeholder perspectives
• Impact categories: from product perspectives

Life Cycle Attribution Assessment (LCAA)

• Attributions of activities: from activity perspectives

*United Nations Environmnetal Program/Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Example of SLCA

Stakeholder categories Impact categories Sub- categories Imv. indicators Inventory data

Human rights Working conditions Health and safety Cultural heritage Governance Socio-economic repercusions Workers Local community Society Consumers Value chain actors

Assesment system from categories to unit of measurement. Adapted from benoit et al., 2007 Wu et al., 2014; Sustainability 2014, 6, 4200-4226

Indicators for social sustainability GBEP*

The GBEP Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy, GBEP, December 2011, ISBN 978-92-5-107249-3

*GBEP: Global Bioenergy Partnership

• Allocation and tenure of land
• Price and supply of national food basket
• Change in income
• Jobs in the bioenergy sector
• Changes in unpaid time spent by women and children collecting biomass
• Bioenergy used to expand access to modern energy services
• Change in mortality and burden of disease attributable to indoor smoke
• Incidence of occupational injury, illness and fatalities

Indicators for social sustainability GBEP*

The GBEP Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy, GBEP, December 2011, ISBN 978-92-5-107249-3

*GBEP: Global Bioenergy Partnership

• Allocation and tenure of land
• Price and supply of national food basket
• Change in income
• Jobs in the bioenergy sector
• Changes in unpaid time spent by women and children collecting biomass
• Bioenergy used to expand access to modern energy services
• Change in mortality and burden of disease attributable to indoor smoke
• Incidence of occupational injury, illness and fatalities

What are the societal impacts of a bio-based process? ... And how do they compare to other production modes?

Feedstock Products Waste Management

Energy

Materials Energy

Cradle-to-gate Cradle-to-grave

Raw materials Use Air Water Land Recycle

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Goal and scope definition

Social indicators within biomass supply chain

Feedstock production Feedstock Logistics Conversion to Biofuel Biofuel Logistics Biofuel End-uses

Harvesting & Collection Processing Storage Transport Land Conditions Feedstock type Management Conversion Process Fuel type Co-products Transport Storage Engine type & efficiency Blend conditions

Dale, V., efoymoson, R., Kline, K., Langholtz, M., Leiby, P., Oladosu, G., Davis, M. Downing, M., Hilliard, M. (2013). Indicators for assesing socioeconomic sustainability of bioenergy systems: A short list of practical

• measures. Ecological Indicators. 26:87-102(2013)

Profitability Social well being External trade Energy security Resource conservation Social acceptability Categories without major effects

Categories of major indicators: Socioeconomics

Data collection & interpretation

• Interviews
• Meetings
• Surveys
• Web blogs
• General databases

A mix of quantitative and qualitative results

CMPC, Brazil

Socio-economic impact assessment

• f business case
• Feedstocks
• Transport
• Processing (including pretreatment)

Feedstock Products Waste Management

Energy

Materials Energy

Cradle-to-gate Cradle-to-grave

Employment & income: Is there increase in employment and income? Education & training: Have the new jobs a potential positive impact

• n schooling?

Food security: Does the production of feedstock have any impact on food availability and prices? Productivity: How much product/hectare?

Socio-economic impact assessment: Feedstock indicators

Socio-economic impact assessment Transport indicators

Employment & income: Is there increase in employment and income? Education & training: Have the new jobs a potential positive impact on schooling? Infrastructure: How much biomass needs to be transported/day? Is the transport infrastructure adequate? Does is provide problems for local communities?

Socio-economic impact assessment Land management indicators

Land tenure and allocation: How is ownership arranged? Harvesting: Have the new jobs a potential positive impact on schooling? Is there a policy for child labour? Soil quality: How is fertilisation and herbicidal resistance done? Health impacts: Are there toxic compounds involved? Energy security: Does the new feedstock management impact energy security?

Energy security: Does the new conversion impact energy security? Social acceptance: Are the new technologies accepted? Employment and training: Are there new jobs created? Is training provided? Worker’s safety?

Socio-economic impact assessment Processing indicators

Integral assessment: standards

12 principles developed by the Round Table for Sustainable Biomaterials

http://rsb.org/sustainability/rsb-tools-guidelines/

People Profit Planet PPP (People-planet-profit) concept:

Integrating results and weighing of factors

Standards for sustainable production

Bearable Equitable Viable Sustainable

Corporate social responsibility

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7dDSHwFgKk

Summary

Social sustainability is:

• Part of the overall sustainability profile
• Providing information on how to improve social impact
• In development
• Related to normative aspects
• Often influenced by external stakeholders (NGOs, policies,

consumers)

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