Screening potential social impacts of fossil fuels and biofuels for vehicles

Elisabeth Ekener-Petersen, Jonas Höglund and Göran Finnveden

Energy Policy, 2014, vol. 73, issue C, 416-426

Abstract: The generic social and socioeconomic impacts of various biofuels and fossil fuels were screened by applying Social Life Cycle Assessment methodology. Data were taken from the Social Hotspots Database on all categories for all the related themes and all indicators available. To limit the amount of data, only high and very high risk indicators were considered for each combination. The risks identified per life cycle phase were listed for each fuel assessed and the results were then aggregated by counting the number of high and very high risk indicators for that fuel.

Keywords: Social impacts; Social life cycle assessment; Vehicle fuels; Biofuels; Fossil fuels; Sustainable transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.05.034

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