Dataset on the environmental and social footprint of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

Published: 11 January 2022| Version 3 | DOI: 10.17632/y4zz26pdzk.3
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Description

The organisational life cycle assessment (OLCA) and the social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU were conducted. Bueno et al. (2021) used this dataset for the calculation of the environmental and social footprint of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU for year 2016. This dataset provides detailed information on the UPV/EHU and the boundaries considered; on the compilation and quantification of the life cycle inventory (LCI), which included a transport survey conducted in summer 2018; and on the modelling process followed for the calculation of the environmental and social footprints, based on the Ecoinvent 3.3 database and PSILCA-based Soca v1 add-on, and carried out with the openLCA free software. The dataset also includes the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) results provided by the CML (baseline, 2015) and ReCiPe (endpoint (H), 2008) LCIA methods and post-processed social impacts provided by the Social Impacts Weighting Method, disaggregated by subprocesses and impact locations. Data is provided for the reference year (2016), and some aggregated data is also provided for alternative scenarios that were explored in order to check pathways to reduce social and environmental impacts of the academic activity of the UPV/EHU. This dataset may be used as a reference for future calculations of the environmental and social footprint of higher education institutions and other organisations. G. Bueno, M. de Blas, E. Pérez-Iribarren, I. Zuazo, E. Torre-Pascual, A. Erauskin, I. Etxano, U. Tamayo, M. García, O. Akizu-Gardoki, I. León, C. Marieta, G. Zulueta, I. Barrio, The environmental and social footprint of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), J. Clean. Prod. (2021).

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Universidad del Pais Vasco

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Environmental Science, Life Cycle Assessment, Social Life Cycle Assessment

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