Abstract | Due to the success of our initial call for chapters in October 2023 and the interest leveraged around matters related to sustainability and the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs), we were able to produce a two volume collection on this important topic. The first volume, titled “Responsible Consumption and Production in the Creative and Cultural Industries. Actions, policies, and strategies for a sustainable future”, will be published in June 2025, followed by this second volume a few months later. The present volume can therefore be considered complementary to the first volume, with another selection of interesting and useful contributions that, we hope, will highlight even more the strong relationship between the CCIs and sustainability and contribute to advance the academic literature around these key matters. Although we designed each volume as stand-alone, we do recommend reading both volumes for a more comprehensive overview of the key issues, advances and challenges. Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs) are not escaping from the challenge of addressing sustainability matters; indeed, these industries could provide original solutions, thanks to their unique creativity, skills and talent (Amabile, 1988; Benghozi et al., 2021), which could become “best practices”, thus adopted by other industrial sectors. Nonetheless, to date the matter of sustainability in the CCIs’ context has not received the deserved attention in the academic literature. In particular, we identified a gap in ‘Responsible Consumption and Production in the CCIs’ that, all along the content of the first volume (Salvador, Pappalepore, 2025), also this sequel-book aims to bridge. |
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