Testing the PSILCA database in a honey S-LCA case-study.

This paper aims at assessing the social and socio-economic aspects of a jar of honey along its life cycle by using the Product Social Impact Life Cycle Assessment database (PSILCA). PSILCA is a database for Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), which allows for the calculation and evaluation of social risks of products along their entire life cycle, already used by several scholars . The variety of ways of assessing social aspects demonstrates that S-LCA is a methodology that still needs an ever- growing number of implementations in order to be standardised. Therefore, the main goal is to contribute to the methodology- and the implementation-related development with the help of PSILCA.