Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion

"The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries. Yet the fashion industry is also a significant contributor to the degradation of natural systems, with the associated environmental footprint of clothing high in comparison with other products. This comprehensive handbook recognizes the complexity of aligning fashion with sustainability. It explores fashion and sustainability at the levels of products, processes, and paradigms and takes a truly multi-disciplinary approach to critically question and suggest creative responses to issues of fashion in a post-growth society, fashion, diversity and equity and fashion, fluidity and balance across natural, social and economic systems"--

Product details

• Authors: Kate (Centre for Sustainable Fashion Fletcher, Kate (University of the Arts Fletcher, Kate Tham Fletcher
• Assisted by: Kate Fletcher (Editor), Kate (Centre for Sustainable Fashion Fletcher (Editor), Fletcher Kate (Editor), Mathilda Tham (Editor), Mathilda (Goldsmiths University of London Tham (Editor), Tham Mathilda (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2014
• EAN: 9780415828598
• ISBN: 978-0-415-82859-8
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Routledge International Handbooks; Routledge International Handbooks; Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Media Studies, Theory of art, NATURE / Ecology, Anthropology, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, History of Art, Humanities, Environmental Economics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Fashion & textiles: design, Pollution & threats to the environment, Fashion & beauty industries, Social impact of environmental issues, Printing, packaging & reprographic industry, Technical design, Fashion and textile design, Other manufacturing technologies, Engineering: general, Economics of industrial organisation, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Pollution and threats to the environment, Art forms, Hospitality and service industries, The Arts: art forms, Economics of industrial organization