Advancing Integration of CSR and Social Life Cycle Assessment in the Textile and Fashion Industry

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A3 Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa

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Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry

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This chapter shows how Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) could be integrated with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to monitor the challenges emerging from the textile industry’s transition towards a circular economy (CE). While CSR and S-LCA share a common objective of addressing societal challenges resulting from industrial practices, they are distinct tools. CSR outlines a company’s voluntary commitment to mitigate its societal, financial, and environmental impacts. S-LCA enables the identification, measurement, and evaluation of social hotspots throughout a product’s life cycle. Embedding CSR with S-LCA is vital because the CE transition may alter material supply chains, which could significantly impact stakeholders such as suppliers, employees or workers, local communities, and consumers.

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Bhatnagar, A & Niinimäki, K 2024, Advancing Integration of CSR and Social Life Cycle Assessment in the Textile and Fashion Industry. in S S Muthu (ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility in Textiles and Fashion. Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry, Springer, Cham, pp. 87-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61099-8_5