Textiles for Sustainable Development

This book covers the following themes and cross-cutting research and development activities: agronomy, economics and market trends for the production of natural fibres; synthetic and natural fibres, their properties, processing and applications; properties, performance and primary processing of natural fibres; textile and clothing production processes and properties; nanotechnology applications in fibres, textiles and clothing; comfort and health related applications of textiles; world trade and marketing of fibres, textiles and clothing; modern and innovative textile processing techniques and technologies.