Overview
- The first book in the area of sustainable fibres
- Addresses the importance of sustainable fibres in the fashion sector
- Highlights the life cycle of sustainable fibres and the link to fashion and textiles
- 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(6 chapters)
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Environmental Services Manager-Asia, SGS Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
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PB A, Center for Studies on Sustainable Luxury, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Miguel Gardetti
About the editors
Miguel Angel Gardetti, Ph.D., has been the head of the Center for Study of Sustainable Luxury since its foundation in 2009. In this field, he has lectured at the IE Business School (Madrid, Spain), one of the top business schools in Europe. Moreover, he was a speaker at 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 & Luxury Sectors at a global level. He has also developed several publications in the area of sustainable luxury.
Miguel is a member of the United Nations Global Compact Promoting Group in Argentina and a member of its governance body—the Board of the Argentine Chapter 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: Sustainable Fibres for Fashion Industry
Book Subtitle: Volume 2
Editors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Miguel Gardetti
Series Title: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0566-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0565-7Published: 03 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9195-7Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0566-4Published: 22 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2345-7651
Series E-ISSN: 2345-766X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 146
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sustainable Development, Operations Management, Industrial and Production Engineering, Environmental Management, Textile Engineering