Economic and Environmental Policy Issues in Indian Textile and Apparel Industries (SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science)

This book comprehensively reviews, as well as analyzes, various aspects related to the Indian textile and apparel industries. While the focus is on economic and environmental issues, the discussion covers a lot of policy elements. The approach is inter-disciplinary, with concepts drawn from economics, environmental science, history, chemistry, textile technology and quantitative methods/optimization literature. This book will appeal to several stakeholders such as, policy researchers, policy-makers in governmental and international agencies, academicians and students from all the disciplines mentioned above, industrialists, managers and consultants working on Indian textile and apparel sectors. It might also provoke interest among as well as agriculturalists, farm policy analysts and industrialists focusing on other products such as chemicals, plastics, machineries, etc., who are wholly or partly dependent on textile and apparel industry in India. Dedication 5 Preface 6 Contents 8 Chapter 1: History of Indian Textile Industry 9 Chapter 2: Description of India’s Textile and Apparel Sector 20 Chapter 3: Structure of India’s Textile and Apparel Sector 23 3.1 Introduction 23 3.2 India’s Organized Textile Sector: Performance and Employment 25 3.3 Performance of India’s Unorganized Textile Sector 32 3.3.1 Capital Productivity 36 3.3.2 Capital Intensity 39 3.3.3 Labour Productivity 40 3.4 Domestic Consumption of Textiles in India 42 3.5 Conclusions 49 Chapter 4: Environmental Issues 52 4.1 Literature Review 53 4.2 Methodology 55 4.2.1 Steps Involved for the Multi-scenario Analysis 55 4.2.2 Assumptions Involved in the Multi-scenario Analysis 56 4.2.3 Steps Involved in the AHP-Based Ranking of the Dyes 57 4.3 Results 58 4.3.1 Emission Levels of Different Dyes 58 4.3.2 LEAP Results of the Scenario Analysis 58 Ranking of the Dyes Based on AHP 64 4.4 Conclusions 66 References 68 Front Matter ....Pages i-ix History of Indian Textile Industry (Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan)....Pages 1-11 Description of India’s Textile and Apparel Sector (Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan)....Pages 13-15 Structure of India’s Textile and Apparel Sector (Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan)....Pages 17-45 Environmental Issues (Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan)....Pages 47-62 Back Matter ....Pages 63-65