Overview
- Presents the applications of blockchains to foster sustainability in the textile and clothing supply chain
- Includes case study on combating luxury counterfeiting through the use of blockchain technology
- Discusses the future of Blockchain in wastewater treatment for the textile industry
Part of the book series: Textile Science and Clothing Technology (TSCT)
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This book presents applications of blockchain technologies to foster sustainable development in the textile and clothing supply chain. The concept of Textiles and Fashion Sustainability has grown to a wider extent today. Among the list of items to achieve Sustainability in Textiles and Fashion, the key element is the traceability of supply chains in terms of mapping and tracing the entire supply chain to ensure sustainable supply chain management. Reliable and transparent, efficient data is one of the crucial requirements for Textiles and Fashion Sustainability in today’s advanced industrial context and this is possible in this advanced era by various technological advancements such as Block chain technologies. These days one can see a widespread application of blockchain technology in the Textiles and Clothing sector. The core competencies of blockchain technology namely transparency, data auditability, privacy, value transfer, and process efficiency and automation are very much essential for achieving the multifold objectives under the theme Textiles and Fashion Sustainability.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for Green Story, Inc. Canada as Chief Sustainability Officer 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 over a decade's 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 over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Blockchain Technologies in the Textile and Fashion Industry
Editors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Textile Science and Clothing Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6569-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-6568-5Published: 03 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-6571-5Published: 04 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-6569-2Published: 02 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2197-9863
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9871
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 123
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Professional Computing, Structural Materials, Supply Chain Management, Water, general