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Sustainable Design in Textiles and Fashion

English · Hardback

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This book highlights the Eco-design or Sustainable design in textiles and fashion, aimed at reducing their environmental impact throughout their life cycle. Sustainable design is one of the core elements practiced in various industrial sectors. The textiles and fashion sector, is also creating a huge environmental brunt in terms of various fibres, processes, consumption of various resources including dyes, chemicals and auxiliaries, etc,. Thus, sustainable design is the key to reduce the environmental impacts made out of textiles and fashion products. This book includes seven informative chapters to decipher the concept and applications of sustainable design in textiles and fashion.

List of contents

Fashion Design for Holistic Systems.- Composite Material Design For Aircrafts From Sustainable  Lignocellulosic Fibers- A Review.- Sustainability in Textile Design.- Junior Sportpersons living with physical disabilities´(dis)satisfaction level with selected active sportwear attributes: implications for sustainable apparel design for social inclusion in Kenya.- Use Forecasting: designing fashion garments for extended use.

About the author










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 twelve years of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited around 100 scientific 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, first initiative of its kind in the world with an academic/research profile. He is also the founder and director of the ¿Award for Sustainable Luxury in Latin Americä. 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.¿ He has several publications in the sustainable luxury arerna.


Product details

Assisted by Angel Gardetti (Editor), Angel Gardetti (Editor), Miguel Angel Gardetti (Editor), Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu (Editor), Subramania Senthilkannan Muthu (Editor), Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 21.09.2021
 
EAN 9789811624650
ISBN 978-981-1624-65-0
No. of pages 104
Dimensions 155 mm x 11 mm x 235 mm
Illustrations IX, 104 p. 36 illus., 31 illus. in color.
Series Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry
Sustainable Textiles: Producti
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Development theory and development policy

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