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This book discussing in detail the Social Life Cycle Assessment
(SLCA) of the global economy using the comprehensive Multi-Regional
Input-Output (MRIO) technique. The content is presented in two
parts, the first of which offers an introduction to social
accounting and how it has been developed over the past few years
with details on the methodologies and databases used. The second
part of the book describes the footprints of the social accounts
that have the highest impact on people's well-being (employment,
income, working conditions,and inequality) and how they are linked
to international trade. The need for reporting on such indicators
falls within the purview of corporate/national social
responsibility (part of the Triple Bottom Line). The book offers a
valuable contribution to the literature for researchers and
students engaged in the social sciences, human rights, and the
implications of international trade on labour in developing
countries.iv>
This book adds a whole new dimension to the editors' previous work
on the social, economic, and environmental effects of global trade.
For the first time it brings all three pillars of sustainability
together into one coherent multiregional input-output (MRIO)
framework. It shows the power of MRIO analysis to illuminate the
local and global interdependencies of economic, environmental, and
social systems and the benefits to be gained through analysing all
three together. Change one thing and everything else changes. With
chapters from around 60 researchers across 34 countries, this book
illustrates the effect of natural resources and government policy
settings 1990-2015 on the balancing act that was-and is-global
trade. It provides a holistic systems' view of how supply chains
work, revealing how easily they can become fragmented and out of
kilter. And within all the chaos of COVID-19 it shows how MRIO is
the one tool that can help rebuild a post-pandemic global economy
into a fairer, safer world.
This book discussing in detail the Social Life Cycle Assessment
(SLCA) of the global economy using the comprehensive Multi-Regional
Input-Output (MRIO) technique. The content is presented in two
parts, the first of which offers an introduction to social
accounting and how it has been developed over the past few years
with details on the methodologies and databases used. The second
part of the book describes the footprints of the social accounts
that have the highest impact on people's well-being (employment,
income, working conditions,and inequality) and how they are linked
to international trade. The need for reporting on such indicators
falls within the purview of corporate/national social
responsibility (part of the Triple Bottom Line). The book offers a
valuable contribution to the literature for researchers and
students engaged in the social sciences, human rights, and the
implications of international trade on labour in developing
countries.iv>
Enough for All Forever is a handbook for learning about
sustainability. It has been written specifically for educators:
classroom practitioners; school and system administrators and
managers; those who develop curriculum; academics; and others who
share the goal of environmental equity for all. It is about
integrating sustainability into teaching and learning at all
levels. The focus of the book is how to live sustainably, in
harmony with a planet that has finite resources. This is not a 'one
size fits all' handbook. Rather, it is a broad collection of work
from over fifty different authors, all of them experts in their
field and all committed to doing something about sustainability.
This book tells five stories of a three-year leadership capacity
building program designed for residents of government housing
estates in Sydney's Eastern suburbs. It tells its stories through
the voices of the project leader and four participants. While the
project leader explains the workings of the project each of the
participants tells how it fitted into their life-story. They talk
of their childhood and growing up and sometimes precarious survival
at the poor end of town. The four insider stories are set beside
the program's intentions as seen by government funding body and
program managers, and the philosophical understanding that
underpinned the program leader's actions. In so doing the book
explores the relationship between: one person's theory; a community
development program in practice; and real life experience. It does
this not through a voice of authority commenting on people's lived
experience and attempting to relate this to the theory, but by
showing what the program meant to the project leader and what it
meant to each of the four participants. It tries to demonstrate,
but not explain, how these disparate meanings connected, or
otherwise, with the theory that the project leader believed she was
applying; and how in the end all knowledge is personal, built up
over a life time and stitched together with the threads of our
relationships in whatever environment we happen to inhabit.
this time around success will need to be measured not by how much
we can control nature but by how well we can live as part of it.
Our efforts in the transition to a sustainable future require
decisions that not only acknowledge the ecosphere, but embrace the
complexity of our societies and the natural systems that support
us. A vital part of this transition is communication. We need to
map and communicate as clearly as possible the impacts of our
current trajectory and provide a clear and comprehensive system for
tracking the world s progress towards sustainability This book
provides an introduction to input-output analysis for
sustainability practitioners. It is designed for those with
knowledge about the sustainability dilemma we face, but who are
unsure about the how of measuring our impacts, tracking our
progress and informing the decisions for a sustainable future.
Input-output analysis placed in a transdisciplinary setting is a
method that captures the complexities and interdependencies of our
social, economic and environmental support systems. Examples of the
use of input-output analysis in life-cycle assessment, triple
bottom line accounting and carbon and ecological footprints are
provided along with an introduction to a range of software tools.
In academic circles research has been gathering pace on these
methods and issues over the last years. This book brings this state
of the art to the decision makers and policy shapers of today.
The inclusion of qualitative social data into global environmental
and economic input-output (IO) models remained illusive for many
years. It was not until around 2013 that researchers found ways to
include data, for example, on poverty, inequality, and worker
safety, into IO models capable of tracing global supply chains. The
sustainable development goals have now propelled this work onto the
world stage with some urgency. They have shone a spotlight onto
social conditions around the world and brought global trade into
the frame for its ability to influence social conditions for good
or ill. This book provides a compilation of groundbreaking work on
social indicators from the most prominent IO research groups from a
wide range of academic backgrounds and from around the world. In
addition, it frames this work in the real world of politics, human
rights, and business, bringing together a multidisciplinary team to
demonstrate the power of IO to illuminate some of the world's most
pressing problems. Edited by well-known researchers in the area,
Joy Murray, Arunima Malik, and Arne Geschke, the book is designed
to appeal to a broad academic and business audience. While many
chapters include technical details and references for follow-up
reading, it is possible to omit those sections and yet gain a deep
appreciation of the power of IO to address seemingly intractable
problems.
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