Routledge handbook of sustainability and fashion / edited by Kate Fletcher and Mathilda Tham.
Contributor(s): Fletcher, Kate [editor.]
| Tham, Mathilda [editor.]Series: Routledge international handbooks: Publisher: Oxfordshire, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: 44965ISBN: 9780203519943 (e-book)Subject(s): Fashion -- Environmental aspects | Clothing trade -- Environmental aspects | SustainabilityGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Routledge handbook of sustainability and fashion.DDC classification: 338.4/7687 LOC classification: TT515 | .R688 2015Online resources: Click to View
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries. Yet the fashion industry is also a significant contributor to the degradation of natural systems, with the associated environmental footprint of clothing high in comparison with other products.
Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion recognizes the complexity of aligning fashion with sustainability. It explores fashion and sustainability at the levels of products, processes, and paradigms and takes a truly multi-disciplinary approach to critically question and suggest creative responses to issues of:
* Fashion in a post-growth society
* Fashion, diversity and equity
* Fashion, fluidity and balance across natural, social and economic systems
This handbook is a unique resource for a wide range of scholars and students in the social sciences, arts and humanities interested in sustainability and fashion.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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CHOICE Review
This well-researched handbook explores the complexities of sustainability in the fashion industry. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to issues of sustainability in the products and processes of fashion, including perspectives from the fields of economics, natural and social sciences, and arts and humanities. This handbook aims to develop a discourse of sustainable design that balances economic development and prosperity with protection of environmental systems at personal, local, and global levels. Concise essays delve into the diverse and complex factors of sustainable fashion, including the politics of the fashion system; economic growth in the context of sustainability; gender; ethics; consumerism; the history of sustainability in fashion; business models and branding; the role of fashion media; science and technology in sustainable fashion, such as synthetic materials; and workers' rights. Each chapter offers a list of references to support further research and discussion. Throughout, this handbook strives to present an objective, future-oriented approach to sustainability in the fashion industry that takes into account the experiences of designers, manufacturers, the labor force, consumers, and the environment. This important and unique resource will appeal to a wide range of scholars, students, practitioners, and activists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. --Caley Brae Cannon, Brand Library and Art CenterThere are no comments on this title.