As the global garment and textile industries grapple with the urgent challenge of climate change, their value chains are undergoing a profound transformation. This groundbreaking book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to examine how climate change is reshaping these industries.
The book delves into the key drivers and obstacles influencing climate change mitigation and adaptation, linking these processes to economic, social, and environmental upgrading. With a strong regional focus on South Asiaparticularly Bangladesh, one of the worlds largest garment-exporting nationsit explores how global decarbonization efforts intersect with local realities, presenting both challenges and opportunities. The book offers a nuanced analysis of emissions management, regulatory frameworks, and policy responses, integrating diverse viewpoints from brands, suppliers, workers, and policymakers.
Blending theoretical insights with rich empirical evidence, Global Value Chains and Climate Change illuminates how climate action is not just a constraint but also a catalyst for economic, social, and environmental transformation in global value chains. This book is an essential read for students and scholars in management, international business, climate policy, environmental science, and development studies. It will also serve as an invaluable resource for policymakers, industry leaders, and practitioners seeking to navigate the evolving landscape of sustainability transitions in the wider context of global trade.
This cutting-edge book examines how climate change is driving a fundamental transformation of global value chains in the garment and textile industries. It explores the shifting roles of key actorsbrands, suppliers, policymakers, and workersand the challenges and opportunities emerging from climate change-driven transitions.
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This book provides critical insights into garment global value chains and climate change. It examines how mitigation and adaptation strategies are shaped by buyer-supplier power imbalances, with trade-offs between economic, environmental and social upgrading. Vulnerable suppliers and workers often experiencing more adverse impacts. This is essential reading for all striving for climate justice in the global South. -- Stephanie Barrientos, University of Manchester, UK The fast fashion industry both contributes to climate change and is increasingly exposed to its impacts. This collection brings together leading scholars and practitioners to understand the challenges facing the sector and what can be done to address them. In so doing it makes an invaluable theoretical and empirical contribution. -- Peter Newell, Sussex University, UK
Contents
Preface xvi
1 Introduction to the intersection of climate change and garment GVCs 1
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PART I Theoretical and conceptual foundations
2 Conceptualizing global value chain governance in the era of climate change
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3 Taking climate action: measuring carbon emissions in the garment sector in
Asia 33
Samantha Sharpe, Elsa Dominish and Cristina Martinez-Fernandez
4 Global value chains and climate change governance: garment producers
futures 59
Rachel Alexander and Mohammad Harunur Rashid Bhuyan
PART II Experiences of climate change in production countries
5 The impact of temperature on productivity and labour supply: evidence from
Indian manufacturing 85
E. Somanathan, Rohini Somanathan, Anant Sudarshan and Meenu Tewari
PART III Local solutions to global climate challenges
6 Global recycling networks in the context of climate change: ecologically
unequal exchange and divergent governance paths 142
Peter Lund-Thomsen, Uzma Rehman and Gary Gereffi
PART IV Looking towards the future
7 Garment and textile recycling in Bangladesh 172
Rumi Akter and Rachel Alexander
8 Climate change and slow fashion in Bangladesh 198
Sabrina Nourin, Muntaqa N. B. Hakim, Afshana Choudhury, Rachel Alexander and
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9 Global value chains and climate change: findings, research and policy
implications 213
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Edited by Peter Lund-Thomsen, Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries, Center for Business and Development Studies, Department of Management, Communication and Society, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
