Host: Center for Environmental Information Science
Pages 327-332
According to the Triple Bottom Line concept, sustainable development involves the economic prosperity, enrivonmental quality, and social justice. A lot of methods for evaluating the environmental and economic aspects exist, however, there are currently only few methods to assess social impacts. For the development of a method it is firstly necessary to think about what a social impact is. In this study a social impact assessment framework with safeguard subjects being based on international agreements. In addition, weighting factors for each of the safeguard subjects were decided using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). From the results of the AHP, the type of society which people want can be assessed. It is expected that the method developed in this research can be applied to assess sustainability of the three aspects and to identify the trade-offs between them.
