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When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower
carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind:
petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food, but
not clothes. 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 begins with an introductory
letter that outlines the social and environmental issues facing the
fashion industry, as well as emphasizing the seriousness and
urgency of addressing them. Each chapter then focuses on a major
aspect of the industry with an increasing emphasis on policy. The
chapters outline the impact of global-level and business-level
decisions on the industry's success, its social and environmental
impact, and its relationship to consumers. The goal of the book is
to define that transition, explain its challenges, and educate
readers on the possibilities to become powerful drivers of change
through their professional actions and their personal behavior as
consumers. While the book specifically analyzes the fashion
industry, it also explains the implications for other industrial
sectors. It uses a product everyone is familiar with (we all buy
clothes, after all) to examine the decisions, impacts, and policies
shaping the industry behind the scenes. The linkages are applicable
to other fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) business sectors, such
as consumer electronics, which are starting to face sustainability
criticism for relying on a business model of promoting a high
frequency of repeat purchasing.
When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower
carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind:
petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food, but
not clothes. 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 begins with an introductory
letter that outlines the social and environmental issues facing the
fashion industry, as well as emphasizing the seriousness and
urgency of addressing them. Each chapter then focuses on a major
aspect of the industry with an increasing emphasis on policy. The
chapters outline the impact of global-level and business-level
decisions on the industry's success, its social and environmental
impact, and its relationship to consumers. The goal of the book is
to define that transition, explain its challenges, and educate
readers on the possibilities to become powerful drivers of change
through their professional actions and their personal behavior as
consumers. While the book specifically analyzes the fashion
industry, it also explains the implications for other industrial
sectors. It uses a product everyone is familiar with (we all buy
clothes, after all) to examine the decisions, impacts, and policies
shaping the industry behind the scenes. The linkages are applicable
to other fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) business sectors, such
as consumer electronics, which are starting to face sustainability
criticism for relying on a business model of promoting a high
frequency of repeat purchasing.
When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower
carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind:
petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food. But
not clothes. Although the clothing industry is the second largest
polluter after agriculture, most consumers do not think of clothes
as a source of environmental damage. The Dirty Side of the Garment
Industry: Fast Fashion and its Negative Impact on Environment and
Society exposes how clever marketing tactics designed to increase
demand skillfully hide this reality. An in-depth examination of the
international fashion trade and related goods, this book raises
visibility of the ethical aspects of promoting overconsumption
through explaining the ecological damage resulting from the high
rate of discarding old clothes. It focuses on the promotion,
globalization, and integration of the apparel sector into our
social and political landscape. It presents an expert overview of
the garment industry, highlighting the harsh realities of the
environmental and labor problems associated with it. It tracks the
commercial and cultural factors that have led to the growth of fast
fashion retail and its dominance of the entire industry. The book
covers current regulatory policies, both national and
international, on production and labor, and the author does not shy
away from making recommendations for change. He examines marketing,
business, and economic models to explain how assumptions of
traditional economic theory on industrial growth and prosperity
fall short in addressing the high social costs of promoting the
overconsumption of cheap and readily disposable clothes. You will
come away with a detailed, holistic understanding of the garment
industry as well as clarity regarding the larger issue of finding
balance when it comes to the ethics of consumption.
When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower
carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind:
petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food. But
not clothes. Although the clothing industry is the second largest
polluter after agriculture, most consumers do not think of clothes
as a source of environmental damage. The Dirty Side of the Garment
Industry: Fast Fashion and its Negative Impact on Environment and
Society exposes how clever marketing tactics designed to increase
demand skillfully hide this reality. An in-depth examination of the
international fashion trade and related goods, this book raises
visibility of the ethical aspects of promoting overconsumption
through explaining the ecological damage resulting from the high
rate of discarding old clothes. It focuses on the promotion,
globalization, and integration of the apparel sector into our
social and political landscape. It presents an expert overview of
the garment industry, highlighting the harsh realities of the
environmental and labor problems associated with it. It tracks the
commercial and cultural factors that have led to the growth of fast
fashion retail and its dominance of the entire industry. The book
covers current regulatory policies, both national and
international, on production and labor, and the author does not shy
away from making recommendations for change. He examines marketing,
business, and economic models to explain how assumptions of
traditional economic theory on industrial growth and prosperity
fall short in addressing the high social costs of promoting the
overconsumption of cheap and readily disposable clothes. You will
come away with a detailed, holistic understanding of the garment
industry as well as clarity regarding the larger issue of finding
balance when it comes to the ethics of consumption.
This book tracks the political history and specific political
actions associated with the diffusion of state-level marijuana
decriminalization. It provides an integrated chronology of policy
diffusion to show how social and cultural changes have impacted the
shift from anti- to pro-marijuana political platforms. The main
contributions are an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing policy
learning and evolution, an overview of the political history of
marijuana criminalization, a clear synthesis of the medical
literature on cannabis effects, and a supply and demand analysis of
legal and illegal marijuana markets in America. For scholars of
criminal justice, law, political science, policy studies, sociology
and addiction, it provides an amalgam of the diverse and divergent
extant research on marijuana.
This book examines the political and social entrepreneurs that
champion marijuana decriminalization efforts, their constituents'
attitudes toward legalization, the specific successful reform
measures at the state level, and the consequent market dynamics in
cannabis commerce. Each chapter presents a unique dataset with
specific contributions in understanding local and national trends
and outcomes of over two decades of cannabis legalization efforts.
Using detailed analyses of user data, the contributors tackle
social issues like legalization activism in the context of calls to
defund the police, the impact of reforms on immigrant communities,
the demographic and economic characteristics of legal dispensary
customers, medical administrative structures, youth usage, and
mortality related to marijuana and other drug use. Combining
examples of the interplay of the benefits and costs of
decriminalization implementation with an honest discussion of the
possible negative aspects of recreational legalization and whom it
most harms, this book offers policy makers information for future
policy designs with a goal to decrease negative externalities and
social inequity.
This book tracks the political history and specific political
actions associated with the diffusion of state-level marijuana
decriminalization. It provides an integrated chronology of policy
diffusion to show how social and cultural changes have impacted the
shift from anti- to pro-marijuana political platforms. The main
contributions are an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing policy
learning and evolution, an overview of the political history of
marijuana criminalization, a clear synthesis of the medical
literature on cannabis effects, and a supply and demand analysis of
legal and illegal marijuana markets in America. For scholars of
criminal justice, law, political science, policy studies, sociology
and addiction, it provides an amalgam of the diverse and divergent
extant research on marijuana.
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