Setting a New Stage: Small Scale as a Way Forward

Ingun Grimstad Klepp (ingunk@oslomet.no), Rebecca Burgess, Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Mafalda Pacheco, Jane Philbrick and Tone Skårdal Tobiasson (tone.tobiasson@gmail.com)
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Ingun Grimstad Klepp: Oslo Metropolitan University
Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes: Hanken School of Economics
Tone Skårdal Tobiasson: Nordic Initiative Clean & Ethical Fashion

Chapter Chapter 5 in Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion, 2022, pp 109-131 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A quiet revolution is taking place and may increase in force based on the Covid-19 pandemic, as we need to address some wicked problems: the pandemic’s economic consequences alongside the climate and environmental crisis. Based on concrete examples from around the world with a renewed focus on fibres’ environmental footprint and local variation as opposed to industrial farming and mass production, this chapter will highlight some new paths. The examples will be from a varied pool and will mainly be actors working with wool. On the list, we find Fibershed, research projects and private initiatives that represent a counter-movement of people leaving behind well-paid jobs in urban areas to pursue small-scale and community-building enterprises based on local fibre resources, as well as building rural–urban hubs that galvanise the best of both worlds.

Keywords: Wool; Natural fibres; Regenerative farming; Indigenous breeds; Organic; Networks; Community-building (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88300-3_5

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