Sustainable Fashion Quest: Innovations in Business and Policy

Clothes are made with petroleum products through chemically-laden industrial processes, which generate significant pollution and waste. The fashion industry is among the largest organic water polluters in the world, accounting for significant greenhouse gas emissions and generating massive amounts of waste. This book examines the social and environmental issues facing the fashion industry, and how business pressures and national and international policies can have both positive and negative social and ecological impacts. It provides an analysis of extant and emerging policies to address the divergence in the ongoing quest to maximize economic development and minimize the social costs of the industrialization process. It also examines emerging technologies and innovative business models that have the potential to revolutionize how fashion is perceived, manufactured, and consumed.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 168 pages
\n Publication date: 28 June 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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When people evaluate ways to lower their personal carbon footprint by changing purchasing habits, they are bombarded with information to avoid petroleum and petroleum products, plastics, paper, even food, but not clothes. Most consumers do not think of clothes as a source of environmental damage. Yet, clothes are made with petroleum products through chemically-laden industrial processes that generate significant pollution. The fashion industry is among the largest organic water polluters in the world, accounting for significant greenhouse gas emissions and generating massive amounts of waste as a function of the frequent discarding of used clothing.

In the Dirty Side of the Garment Industry: Fast Fashion and Its Negative Impact on Environment and Society, author Nikolay Anguelov exposed the ecological damage from the fast-fashion business model. In this book, The Sustainable Fashion Quest: Innovations in Business and Policy, the author takes this one step further by focusing on solutions. This book uses the familiar (yet complex) industry of fashion as a lens to examine how business pressures and national and international policies can have both positive and negative social and ecological impacts. It provides an analysis of extant and emerging policies to address the divergence in the ongoing quest to maximize economic development and minimize the social costs of the industrialization process. It also examines emerging technologies and innovative business models that have the potential to revolutionize how fashion is perceived, manufactured, and consumed.

This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding the environmental and social implications of the fashion industry and exploring potential solutions to address these challenges. It offers a comprehensive examination of the industry's past, present, and future, and provides a roadmap for sustainable fashion practices that can benefit both businesses and consumers. By promoting sustainable fashion practices, we can help to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry and create a more equitable and sustainable future for all.

\n Weight: 372g\n
Dimension: 177 x 252 x 15 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367720735\n \n