Sustainability issues are particularly sensitive to the fashion supply chain, given current fierce competition, intensive resource use, and the exposure of penurious labour conditions in some regions.In this paper we discuss how the sustainability movement is impacting the fashion retail supply chain organization and its performance. We carried out a study with stakeholders of the fashion industry and we report on their views. We elaborate on the challenges and conflicts of the different dimensions of sustainability, and we discuss how to leverage both the internal and external organisations in the European supply chain.

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Introduction Elected officials and practitioners generally believe that-along with gains in time, environment, and roadway safety-the local economic impacts brought by high-speed railways (HSR) could be a major ingredient in socioeconomic appraisals. However, academic studies have shown mixed results. Methods This article reviews the various channels through which HSR may impact the local economies. We break down the economic effects by stages of the projects' lifetime and we question the existence of these impacts with an eye towards empirical evidence from the abundant academic and Bgreyl iterature. Results Outside the Bconstruction effects^, that constitute a broad consensus, studies find both the existence and the absence of impacts of HSR, whether these are shortterm effects on local productivity and the geography of consumption (through tourism or extended stays) or long-term effects on the relocation of businesses and households and ultimately local growth patterns. Results show great variability as economic effects are conditional upon a set of other factors such as city size, industry structures, amenities, and distance from the urban core. Conclusions The main difficulty is being able to identify empirically to what extent new infrastructures have affected variations observed in the field, and not the opposite. We believe that making progress on these questions requires clarifying which model of local development is to be used and what kind of development is the goal of public policy.

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Résumé :Des projets de lignes à grande vitesse existent dans de nombreux pays. Les