Sustainability implications of remanufacturing textiles in India

With the increasingly unsustainable nature of industrialized and industrializing nations, new industrial processes are being explored to determine a more sustainable pathway for countries looking to boost their manufacturing presence and competitiveness. In this thesis, we present a "proactive" policy framework for India's sustainable development via the introduction of remanufacturing, at-scale, for India's textile industry using qualitative trade-off analysis that "co-optimizes" for tripartite (international, national, and sub-national) governmental-level and firm-level policies to achieve improvements within the 3 Pillars of Sustainability: namely Economic, Environmental, and Employment Sustainability. The research begins with an analysis of India's sustainable development history, its current status, and its goals for future sustainable development.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Chatterjee, Priyanka M.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Nicholas A. Ashford.

• Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
• Technology and Policy Program.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124591

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/124591