Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion - Wool as a Fabric for Change (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book explores the importance of the agriculturally-based fiber and textile industry, and how local, small-scale operations and markets, coupled with a connection to soil health, can lead the way to new transformative changes. It draws on a four-year research project on Norwegian wool, as well as similar studies in Poland and Portugal. It also explores the role of women and the Indigenous perspective: in Europe this will constitute Sami and Inuit, in Northern America the Inuit and First Nations in Canada, along with Native Americans. Born out of academic interest in the slow food movement, the importance of local raw materials has been put under the spotlight in recent years. Meanwhile, the havoc wreaked by the fast fashion industry has been drawing attention to the need for a new, sustainable approach to clothing and textile manufacture. This edited collection is unique in its scope, taking the conversation beyond traditional debates around fast fashion and agriculture, and examining how textile industry is rooted in the land, and within society and community. Featuring a diverse range of authors, the book will be valuable reading for academics interested in sustainable management, the study of consumption, the study of Indigenous perspectives, and the study of agricultural practices.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	February 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Ingun Grimstad Klepp • Tone Skardal Tobiasson
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	205
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-088299-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business negotiation Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Entrepreneurship Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Manufacturing industries > Textile industries Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General
LSN:	3-03-088299-3
Barcode:	9783030882990

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