Overview
- Highlights the relationship in the handloom industry between its culture and the ways to keep it sustainable
- Presents the luxury and the entrepreneurship aspects of the handloom industry
- Discusses means to revive some of the cultures that are on the verge of closing down
Part of the book series: Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry (STPPMC)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This first of the three volume series highlights the intricate relationship in the handloom industry between its culture and the various areas of sustainability. While there have been major disruptions in this age old industry, this volume presents the luxury and the entrepreneurship aspects to keep the industry moving ahead. The book contains seventeen chapters written by leading experts in the areas and discusses means to revive some of the cultures that are on the verge of closing/shutting down.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
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 seven 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 over 100 scientific books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handloom Sustainability and Culture
Book Subtitle: Entrepreneurship, Culture and Luxury
Editors: Miguel Ángel Gardetti, Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5967-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5966-9Published: 12 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5969-0Published: 13 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-5967-6Published: 11 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-7108
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7116
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 310
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 131 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Structural Materials, Cultural Economics, Environmental and Sustainability Education