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.
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Table of Content
Bapta Saree Revival: Reinventing the Past for a Sustainable Future.- Environmental Sustainability of Handloom Sector.- Handlooms: Unleashing cultural potentials.- The Influence of Culture On The Sustainable Entrepreneur – An Investigation Into Fashion Entrepreneurs In Saudi Arabia.- A Sustainable Alternative For The Woven Fabrics: “Traditional Buldan Handwoven Fabrics”.- Between the anthropological self-referentiality of the handloom and the cultural sustainability of the contemporary product, through re-crafting design.- Conscious, collaborative clothing: A case study on regenerating relationships within the khadi value chain.- A sustainable model: Handloom and community.- The Influence Of Starch Desizing On Thermal Properties Of Traditional Fabrics In Anatolia.- Indian Handloom Design Innovations And Interventions Through Sustenance Lens.- Sustainability, Culture, and Handloom.- Consumers’ attitudes toward sustainable luxury products: The role of uniqueness and conspicuous consumption.- Uzbekistan: The silk route of handloom.- Urban Artisanal Luxury and Aesthetic Capitalism in a Symbiotic Relationship. Competitiveness in Understated Luxury from Two Cases in Taiwan.About the author
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 Sg T Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph D 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.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 310 ● ISBN 9789811659676 ● File size 14.5 MB ● Editor Miguel Ángel Gardetti & Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu ● Publisher Springer Singapore ● City Singapore ● Country SG ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8271085 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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