A KPI for Local Community Impact of the ULCOStechnologies

Abstract

This paper presents a part of work developed inside theULCOS project, which aims at the radical reduction of CO₂emissions from iron and steel production, through new routes thatmust be sustainable, i.e. environmentally-friendly, economicallyviable and socially acceptable. In order to demonstrate theirsustainability, Key Performance Indicators are the main toolsdeveloped inside the work package 9.4, “Sustainability Model& Process Selection Tool”, which aims at making complex issuesmore manageable. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are themost useful tools for evaluating and managing not only theenvironmental and economic impacts, but also the social impacts.The assessment of social aspect of sustainability must betaken into consideration, nevertheless the prediction ofsocial impacts is often hard to be done, not only becauseof the lack of a clear cause-effect relationship but alsobecause of the difficulty to analyse and to predict socialphenomena, especially through a quantitative approach.The purpose of this work is to present a methodology, basedon both quantitative and qualitative approaches, carried outin order to develop the social indicator (Local CommunityImpact Indicator), which has primarily taken into accountpossible impacts of a current integrated steelworks on thecommunities within the close vicinity of the plant operations.