Overview
- Highlights the eco-design/sustainable design in textiles and fashion, aimed at reducing their environmental impact
- Discusses the concept and applications of sustainable design in textiles and fashion
- Includes chapters on visual stocktake and composite material design for Aircrafts using Lignocellulosic fibers
Part of the book series: Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry (STPPMC)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
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 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 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. He has several publications in the sustainable luxury arerna.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Design in Textiles and Fashion
Editors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Miguel Angel Gardetti
Series Title: Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2466-7
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. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2465-0Published: 15 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2468-1Published: 16 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2466-7Published: 14 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-7108
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7116
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 104
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Structural Materials, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Management