Sustainable Materials and Management in the Fashion Industry 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2024) | Viewed by 6200
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability and sustainable development; firms’ strategic and supply chain management; corporate social responsibility and consumer environmentalism; multi-channel retailing and electronic commerce; product/technology life cycle analysis
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Interests: sustainable textile material; sustainable apparel and wearable product design and development; functional textiles; functional apparel design and development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fashion represents a 2.4-trillion-dollar global industry employing approximately 300 million people worldwide across the value chain. While this industry is booming, increasing focus has been placed on issues related to sustainability; this encompasses environmental issues (such as air, water, and land pollution; climate change; product lifecycle assessment; waste recycling and upcycling; and biodegradable material development and adoption) and social issues (including working conditions, labor practices, diversity and equity issues, health and safety risks, and fair trade). As the discourse around these issues continues to evolve, scholars have made renewed calls for up-to-date research articles that address the issues of sustainable materials and management in the context of apparel and the textile industry. We will accept both empirical and conceptual papers that offer theoretical and practical contributions to the areas of interest mentioned based on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-research methods.
This Special Issue mainly focuses on, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- The development and application of sustainable textile materials;
- The environmental sustainability of textiles and apparel;
- Social sustainability of textiles and apparel;
- Sustainable production and consumption;
- Consumer perceptions of sustainability in fashion;
- The impact of COVID-19 on sustainable fashion;
- Sustainable supply chain management;
- Sustainable brands and circular business models;
- Circular economy in the textile and apparel industry;
- Transparency and traceability of sustainable fashion;
- Life cycle assessment of textiles and apparel;
- Innovative and creative solutions for sustainable fashion;
- Emerging technologies and sustainable business models.
Prof. Dr. Ting Chi
Prof. Dr. Huantian Cao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental sustainability
- social sustainability
- sustainable management
- sustainable fashion
- sustainable materials
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