What is the significance of a social hotspot?

A hotspot is a unit process of a product life cycle that has a potentially. significant social impact. A hotspot should contribute substantially to the. total impact for a given impact category.

The analysis of social impacts of product supply chains is receiving substantial interest from corporations and their stakeholders. Social LCA is a technique that allows for the generation, organization, assessment and communication of product life cycles’ social impacts. The Social Hotspots Database provides a three layered system to assess the potential social risks and opportunities associated with product life cycles. The system was used to carry out social scoping assessments on seven product categories for The Sustainability Consortium. This article summarizes the methodology and discusses the main findings generated by the application of the system and database.

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2- were

3-would be

4- had known

5-takes

6-must be/ have to be/should be

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