Sustainability Challenges in the Fashion Industry / Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry (PDF)

Miguel Angel Gardetti (Ph.D.), founded the Centre for Sustainable Textile. He was guest co-editor for severals publications in journals and books and renowned professor at different Latin American universities. Between 2012 and 2015, he was also a member of the Consulting Board of the "Future Fashion" Project of MISTRA (a Swedish government foundation that conducts research into environmental topics). He participated in the activity "Changing the World through Fashion," organised by the United Nations for the 4th Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). He is an active member of the Global Compact in Argentina -which is a United Nations initiative-, and was a member of its governance body -the Board of The Global Compact, Argentine Chapter - for two terms. He was also part of the task force that developed the "Management Responsible Education Principles" of the United Nations Global Compact. This task force was made up of over 55 renowned academics worldwide pertaining totop Business Schools.






Rosa Patricia Larios-Francia, PhD in Strategic Management with specialization in Business Management and Sustainability by the Consortium of Universities, Master in Industrial Engineering by the Ricardo Palma University and Industrial Engineer by the University of Lima. With a specialization in innovation by the International Program of High Specialization in Innovation Management. Researcher in the areas of innovation management, MSMEs management, cluster, biodiversity, sustainability, circular economy, humanitarian logistics, technology in the development of new materials and processes in the textile industry, fashion and handicrafts. She has been Director of the Textile Innovation Center of the University of Lima. Author of scientific articles and books on innovation, sustainability, fashion industry, handicrafts and small and medium enterprises. Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering of the University of Lima. And atthe Faculty of