Looking to find any methods and/or publications which review the social sustainability and economic value created for firms (and as a whole) of industrial symbiosis networks. These can be both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Please let me know for example if you have published an example, approach, etc.
I have worked extensively with the "other" pillar sustainability, i.e. applying LCA to review environmental implications of IS (see my publications and methods). For some new projects I'm trying to review and connect the other pillars and understand what can/cannot be done given current methodologies.
We have a more general model than what you are asking about, but it would be able to be applied in your case. It measures the absolute sustainability of communities of any scale (from hamlet to planet), and you could see how your firm(s) affect the whole system quantitatively. It makes no real distinction between pillars of sustainability, by relying on the units of Sustainability and the relationships between the units. Ultimately, it's about maintaining a non-declining quality of life of a population, using the resources that it has available to it, in perpetuity.
Conference Paper Building a Framework for Absolute Sustainability
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