Editors:
- The very first book in the area of Sustainable Luxury Textiles and Fashion
- Promotes and disseminates the concepts on sustainability and business management
- Highlights the need for value chain management and sustainable raw materials and production processes in the context of sustainable luxury
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes (EFEPP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sustainability and Business Management
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Front Matter
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About this book
The first volume of this handbook explores different aspects of sustainable luxury textiles and fashion, broadly based on the following topics: Sustainability and business management, Value chain management, Use of materials and Sustainable production processes.
Editors and Affiliations
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Center for Studies on Sustainable Luxury, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Miguel Angel Gardetti
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Eco-design Consultant, Global Sustainability Services, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
About the editors
As to Luxury and Sustainability topics, he lectured at the IE Business School (Madrid, Spain), one of the top Business Schools in Europe. Moreover, he was a speaker in Identidad Uruguay, an event organised by the Universidad de Empresa (Montevideo), with a lecture on Fashion, Luxury, and Sustainability. He was the creator of the Best Performance in Sustainable Luxury in Latin America Award (at present evolving towards the IE Award for Sustainability in The Premium and Luxury Sectors at a global level). He developed also several publications in the area of sustainable luxury: the Journal of Corporate Citizenship special issue on “sustainable luxury” and the books titled “Sustainable Luxury – Managing Social and Environmental Performance in Iconic Brands” and “Sustainable Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship – Stories from the Pioneers”.
He was a member of the United Nations Global Compact Promoting Group in Argentina and a member of its governance body –the Board of the ArgentineChapter of The Global Compact- for two consecutive terms. He was co-founder of the Global Compact Chair in Argentina, and he was also part of the task force that developed the “Management Responsible Education Principles” of the United Nations Global Compact. He has also coordinated tasks for the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation (private sector arm of the World Bank), the Netherlands Development Organisation, the United Nations (New York), and the World Resources Institute (USA.)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Sustainable Luxury Textiles and Fashion
Book Subtitle: Volume 1
Editors: Miguel Angel Gardetti, Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-633-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-632-4Published: 19 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1262-4Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-633-1Published: 10 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2345-7651
Series E-ISSN: 2345-766X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 211
Number of Illustrations: 76 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sustainable Development, Textile Engineering, Operations Management, Industrial and Production Engineering, Environmental Management