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The Social Footprints of Global Trade

McBain, Darian; Lenzen, Manfred; Alsamawi, Ali; Murray, Joy; Wiebe, Kirsten S.

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Description for The Social Footprints of Global Trade hardcover. Series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-Design of Products and Processes. Num Pages: 250 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: KCP; KJMV; RNU; TGP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format

Hardback

Publication date

2017

Publisher

Springer Singapore

Number of pages

250

Condition

New

Series

Environmental Footprints and Eco-Design of Products and Processes

Number of Pages

130

Place of Publication

Singapore, Singapore

ISBN

9789811041358

SKU

V9789811041358

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99-15

About McBain, Darian; Lenzen, Manfred; Alsamawi, Ali; Murray, Joy; Wiebe, Kirsten S.

Ali Alsamawi is a PhD candidate with the Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) group in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. Before joining ISA, Ali was a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales for one and half years. He recently published an article titled “The Employment Footprint of Nations: Uncovering Master-Servant Relationships” in The Journal ... Read moreof Industrial Ecology. Darian McBain is a PhD student with ISA at the University of Sydney and is working on social indicators for Input-Output Analysis. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of New South Wales and an MSc in Business Strategy, Politics and Environment from the University of London. Darian has worked in both the UK and Australia advising governments and the private sector on sustainability strategy and sustainable supply chain management. Upon returning to Australia in 2007, Darian cofounded the consultancy Blue Sky Green to develop sustainable solutions for businessesand government. Dr. Joy Murray is Senior Research Fellow at Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. She joined the group in 2003 as manager of a two-year action research project working with representatives from business and industry, government and non-government organisations to develop a user-friendly software tool driven by the ISA TBL methodology. Joy is also working with residents of government housing estates in Eastern Sydney on a project to build leadership capacity. In a previous life she was the New South Wales manager of the state government’s IT training strategy for teachers. Her PhD from Wollongong University centred on cybernetics and teacher learning. She has co-authored/edited four books and published numerous papers on her work in education and ISA. Dr. Manfred Lenzen is Professor of Sustainability Research at Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) in the School of Physics at the University ofSydney. Manfred has a PhD in Nuclear Physics and 15 years of experience in renewable energy technologies. He has undertaken extensive experimental research on passive solar architecture. He is an international leader in economic Input-Output Analysis and Life-Cycle Assessment, is Associate Editor for the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Economic Systems Research. He has contributed major methodological advances as well as numerous applications, in particular on embodied energy and greenhouse gas emissions. Show Less

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“The book under review is concerned with analyzing some of the less studied but salient effects of international trade between nations, particularly the effects of such trade on workers in developing nations. … the book’s authors present several interesting ideas about inequality, broadly construed, and the ways in which policy makers might address the myriad problems resulting from the persistence ... Read more

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