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Textiles and Clothing Sustainability

Implications in Textiles and Fashion

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

    1. Environmental Services Manager- Asia, SGS Hong Kong Limited Environmental Services Manager- Asia, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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  • Edited and Written by leading experts in textiles and clothing sustainability
  • Examines in-depth different aspects of sustainability in clothing, fashion and textiles
  • Highlights new topics such as life cycle costing, animal ethics, CSR in clothing industry
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Textile Science and Clothing Technology (TSCT)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Will Clothing Be Sustainable? Clarifying Sustainable Fashion

    • Sandra Roos, Gustav Sandin, Bahareh Zamani, Greg Peters, Magdalena Svanström
    Pages 1-45

  3. Sustainability in the Textile and Fashion Industries: Animal Ethics and Welfare

    • Miguel Ángel Gardetti
    Pages 47-73

  4. The Virtuous Circle: Hard Sustainable Science Versus Soft Unsustainable Science Within Marketing Functions of Fashion and Luxury Sectors and How to Prevent ‘Soylent Green’ from Happening

    • Chloé Felicity Amos, Ivan Coste-Manière, Gérard Boyer, Yan Grasselli
    Pages 75-87

  5. Social Reporting Using GRI Disclosures: A Case of Apparel Industry

    • Aswini Yadlapalli, Shams Rahman
    Pages 89-107
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About this book

This book comprehensively covers the topic of sustainability in the clothing and fashion sector. Sustainability is applied under different industrial sectors and there has to be a distinction in every industrial sector when it comes to sustainability in its application. Though the definition is common for sustainability, sustainability in the clothing sector has its unique objectives, principles, and limitations, which this book highlights.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Environmental Services Manager- Asia, SGS Hong Kong Limited Environmental Services Manager- Asia, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

About the editor

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan is currently working for SGS as Environmental Services Manager-Asia, based at Hong Kong. He gained his diploma, bachelors and masters in Textile Technology from premier institutes of India. He was awarded doctorate from The Institute of Textiles and Clothing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for his dissertation entitled "Eco-functional Assessment of Grocery Shopping Bags” He also has more than seven years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, textile testing and sustainability evaluation of various materials. He was an outstanding student throughout his studies and bagged numerous awards and medals including many gold medals in his study period. He has more than 80 academic publications in various textiles and environmental journals to his credit. Additionally he has 2 patents, 6 book chapters and over 25 scientific books and numerous conference publications. He is acting as an editor, editorial board member and reviewer for many international peer-reviewed journals of textiles and environmental science disciplines.

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