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The social impacts of the economic growth processes are often underestimated, sometimes because of the difficulties in effectively assessing these implications and other times due to a scale of priorities where the economic dimensions appear with special relevance. The social life cycle assessment appears as an approach to highlight the impacts of the life cycle of the products on the social human conditions. Another question is about the various interrelationships between the social life cycle assessment and economic growth. It seems interesting to investigate how the social life cycle assessment influences economic growth and how the economic trends deal with these social analyses. In this way, this chapter investigates the several interrelationships among the social life cycle assessment and the economic growth highlighted by the scientific literature. From this perspective, several scientific documents were considered for these subjects. These documents were first explored through bibliometric analysis and after considering a literature survey for the top documents. This chapter highlights how the social life cycle assessment may contribute to a more sustainable economic development.
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This work is funded by National Funds through the FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., within the scope of the project Refa UIDB/00681/2020. Furthermore, we would like to thank the CERNAS Research Centre and the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu for their support. This work is also co-financed by the PRR—Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência (República Portuguesa) and the European NextGeneration EU Funds (recuperarportugal.gov.pt) through application PRR-C05-i03-I-000030—“Carbo2Soil—Reforçar a Complementaridade entre agricultura e pecuária para aumentar a fertilidade dos solos e a sua capacidade de sequestro de carbono”.
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Martinho, V.J.P.D. (2023). Social Life Cycle Assessment: Relationships with the Economic Growth. In: Economic Growth: Advances in Analysis Methodologies and Technologies. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38363-2_8
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