Overview
- Explores environmental issues associated with textile care
- Discusses sustainability aspects of fashion and apparel industries
- Addresses the role of consumer knowledge in textile sustainability
Part of the book series: Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry (STPPMC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume focuses on sustainability aspects of consumerism and fashion, emphasizing the environmental issues that stem from textile care and disposal, and how many of these practices detrimentally impact the environment. Also addressed is the role of consumer knowledge and behavior associated with theclothing industry that may exacerbate these issues, and what can be done to better inform consumers about more sustainable options available to them. The case studies presented cover environmental and social sustainability in the clothing industry, and sustainable development in luxury fashion networks.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and seven years of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 75 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited multiple books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
Miguel Angel Gardetti (Ph.D.), founded the Centre for Study of Sustainable Luxury, firstinitiative of its kind in the world with an academic/research profile. He is also the founder and director of the “Award for Sustainability in the Universe of Luxury in Latin America”. For his contributions in this field, he was granted the “Sustainable Leadership Award (academic category),” in February, 2015 in Mumbai (India).
He is an active member of the Global Compact in Argentina –which is a United Nations initiative-, and was a member of its governance body –the Board of The Global Compact, Argentine Chapter - for two terms. He was also part of the task force that developed the “Management Responsible Education Principles” of the United Nations Global Compact. This task force was made up of over 55 renowned academics worldwide pertaining to top Business Schools.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainability in the Textile and Apparel Industries
Book Subtitle: Consumerism and Fashion Sustainability
Editors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Miguel Angel Gardetti
Series Title: Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38532-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38531-6Published: 20 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38534-7Published: 20 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38532-3Published: 19 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-7108
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7116
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 168
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Geography, Sustainable Development, Textile Engineering, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes, Consumer Behavior