Overview
- Provides an overview of sustainability along the entire textile and fashion value chains
- Considers perspectives from all global regions and from many disciplines: from sustainability science, textiles, industrial and materials engineering to business and management, marketing and governance studies
- Presents carefully selected contributions from international experts, integrated to form a comprehensive guide to sustainable textile and fashion value chains
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About this book
The book provides a systematic overview of the potential and challenges of sustainable textile and fashion value chains, making it of interest to practitioners and scientists in sustainability science, environmental economics, and business, management and innovation. Further, it offers a valuable source of information for industrial and mechanical engineering researchers, and for students in the areas of textile engineering, fashion, or the apparel and clothing industry.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Designing Sustainable Fibers and Fabrics
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Sustainable Sourcing in the Textile and Fashion Value Chain
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Sustainable Production in the Textile and Fashion Value Chain
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Sustainable End-of-Life Concepts and Strategies in the Textile and Fashion Industry
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Sustainable Business Models and Communication Strategies
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Katja Schneider is a Research Associate at the Department of Corporate Environmental Management and Sustainability, Chemnitz University of Technology. Her research activitiesfocus on social sustainability in business model innovations, as well as sustainability marketing and communication strategies in the global textile and fashion industry.
Prof Holger Cebulla is the Chair of Textile Technology at Chemnitz University of Technology. He has held several leading positions at e.g. Groz-Beckert KG, Albstadt, Germany; Rieter AG in Ingolstadt, Germany; and Winterthur, Switzerland. Since 2014 he has been a Professor at Chemnitz, the oldest Textile Department in Germany. He has also served as Chairman of the Board at the Cetex association for the development of textile machinery, and on the board of trustees of the Saxonian Textile Research Institute. In 2017 he was one of the founders of the Sustainable Textile School in Chemnitz.
Prof Marlen Gabriele Arnold is the Chair of Corporate Management and Sustainability at Chemnitz University of Technology. Her main fields of researchare sustainability, strategic & innovation management, open innovation processes, participation, evolutionary and systemic approaches, and biomimicry. A former research fellow at the Hanken School of Economics and the University of Vaasa, Finland, in 2017 she was one of the founders of the Sustainable Textile School in Chemnitz.
Anton E. Schumann is a serial textile entrepreneur and partner at Gherzi Textil Organisation. As a textile engineer with Master’s degrees in Philosophy, Business Administration and Politics, he has more than 15 years of experience in the textile industry, especially in the fields of businesses model innovation, sustainability, textile finishing, technical textiles and flat knitting.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Textile and Fashion Value Chains
Book Subtitle: Drivers, Concepts, Theories and Solutions
Editors: André Matthes, Katja Beyer, Holger Cebulla, Marlen Gabriele Arnold, Anton Schumann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22018-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22017-4Published: 25 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22020-4Published: 26 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22018-1Published: 24 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 453
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 92 illustrations in colour
Topics: Supply Chain Management, Textile Engineering, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Sustainability Management, Engineering Design