There is a rapidly growing interest in, and demand for, non-timber forest products (NTFPs). They provide critical resources across the globe fulfilling nutritional, medicinal, financial and cultural needs. However, they have been largely overlooked in mai
This second edition offers a comprehensive update, incorporating the latest research and insights. It enhances the original content with fresh perspectives and expanded sections, making it a valuable resource for both newcomers and those familiar with the subject. With improved clarity and organization, readers will find it easier to navigate key concepts and apply them effectively. This edition aims to deepen understanding and engage readers with its enriched material.
Designed for nature enthusiasts, this pocket-sized book features stunning illustrations that enhance outdoor adventures. It is a limited edition, promising a unique experience, with a second volume of Fletcher's Almanac set to be released next year.
Focusing on the 'craft of use', this book delves into innovative practices that enhance the enjoyment and resourcefulness of garment usage. It presents these concepts as a dynamic and experiential approach to sustainability in the fashion industry, offering an alternative perspective that emphasizes the importance of how we engage with clothing.
This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it. The book is organized in three parts. The first part is concerned with transforming fashion products across the garment's lifecycle and includes innovation in materials, manufacture, distribution, use, and re-use. The second part looks at ideas that are transforming the fashion system at root into something more sustainable, including new business models that reduce material output. The third section is concerned with transforming the role of fashion designers and looks to examples where the designer changes from a stylist or shaper of things into a communicator, activist or facilitator.
The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries. Yet the fashion industry is also a significant contributor to the degradation of natural systems, with the associated environmental footprint of clothing high in comparison with other products. Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion recognizes the complexity of aligning fashion with sustainability. It explores fashion and sustainability at the levels of products, processes, and paradigms and takes a truly multi-disciplinary approach to critically question and suggest creative responses to issues of: • Fashion in a post-growth society • Fashion, diversity and equity • Fashion, fluidity and balance across natural, social and economic systems This handbook is a unique resource for a wide range of scholars and students in the social sciences, arts and humanities interested in sustainability and fashion.