Short description:

Alongside a sister publication, Responsible Consumption and Production in the Creative and Cultural Industries, this edited book explores how creative and cultural organisations embrace the challenge of sustainable development, highlighting best practice across geographic and cultural contexts.

Long description:

Exploring the Sustainability Development Goal for Responsible Consumption and Production, this volume provides insights from the performing arts, festivals and events, film industry, and fashion sectors.

With a variety of examples and case studies, contributors illuminate the political and social importance of the creative and cultural industries in driving sustainable transitions. The influence of policy, funding, and international standards are also considered, alongside other key themes such as social entrepreneurship, the post-growth economy, and the importance of overcoming barriers to equity, equality and social justice.

Alongside a sister publication, Responsible Consumption and Production in the Creative and Cultural Industries, this edited book explores how creative and cultural organisations embrace the challenge of sustainable development, highlighting best practice across geographic and cultural contexts. The result is a comprehensive overview that is valuable reading for research, policy and practice.

Dagmar Abfalter, Professor of Cultural Management, Head of Department, Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM), mdw ? University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Austria)

?In a world where culture is constantly being created and consumed, this essential volume offers a fresh interdisciplinary perspective on the urgent need for eco-responsible practices across the cultural and creative industries. Through insightful case studies spanning theatre, festivals, film, and fashion, it critically examines existing frameworks while presenting forward-thinking strategies for cultural institutions navigating the green transition. Thought-provoking, timely, and expertly researched, it challenges both creators and consumers to be more mindful of their impact. A must-read for students, researchers, and professionals alike, this book provides invaluable knowledge and practical guidance for those shaping a more ethical and sustainable cultural landscape?.

Abigail Gilmore, Professor Cultural Policy, Art History and Cultural Practices, The University of Manchester, UK

?Responsible Cultural Consumption and Production provides a comprehensive overview of the intersections between arts and cultural ecologies, their management, policies and practices and the call to action of the climate emergency.

Highlighting the role of the arts in advocating and imagining sustainable futures and the practical and ideological challenges of navigating Green Transition and with a focus on performing arts, festivals and events, film and fashion, its chapters present case studies from across the planet researched through diverse methodological lenses from policy analysis and questionnaire survey to object biography and ethnography. Together these inform rich empirical and theoretical insights into the concerns and responses of cultural producers and consumers which are universally relevant, not just to arts management and cultural policy scholars but to all of us with a stake in the future of the planet - Abi Gilmore, Professor of Cultural Policy, University of Manchester?

David McGillivray, Professor, School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland (UWS), UK

?I am delighted to endorse the edited collection focused on Responsible Cultural Consumption and Production, with a focus on the live experience, film, and fashion sectors. There is much debate about how these sectors can be more environmentally (and economically) sustainable, taking responsibility for the impact of their activities. The chapters in this collection offer valuable insights into what the impact of the theatre, events, film and fashion sectors are, and what can be done to mitigate these effects?.

Kirstie Simpson, Associate Professor and Dean, Chester Business School, University of Chester, UK

?The effective use of case studies throughout, supplementing applied theoretical perspectives on sustainable consumption and production, make this innovative book a must-read for responsible practitioners, both current and future, within the cultural sector?.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Section 1: Sustainability transitions in the performing arts sectorChapter 1:  Great Expectations: Towards eco-responsible cultural institutions. Chapter 2: Walking the Eco-Talk: Quality Management Factors to be Considered by Performing Arts Managers when Implementing Sustainable Development.Chapter 3:  Responsible Culture in Iceland: Negotiating values of creativity, climate policies, and sustainability metrics. Section 2: Festivals and Events as Living Labs for Sustainable Practice. Chapter 4: No Festivals on a Dead Planet: The transformative potential of cultural festivals through green growth and degrowth lenses. Chapter 5: Sustainable Eventification: A Nexus in Festivals, Events, and Cultural & Creative Industries. Chapter 6: Green Beats: Let It Roll Festival's Journey of Eco-Friendly Innovations. Chapter 7: Community running events as tools for inclusion in serious leisure spaces. Section 3: Responsible Production in the film industry: challenges and opportunities. Chapter 8: Sustainability Departments in UK Screen Productions: Labour in the Green Transition. Chapter 9: Green practices for sustainable filmmaking. Section 4:  Chapter 10: Responsible consumption in Fashion: the case of the social cap in Brazil. Chapter 11: Consumption for Social Sustainability and Poverty Alleviation. Conclusion