The Financial Ecosystem The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability /

• Main Authors: Bose, Satyajit (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Dong, Guo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Simpson, Anne (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance,
• Subjects: Economic development projects-Finance.; Investment banking.; Securities.; International finance.; Development Finance.; Investments and Securities.; International Finance.

Long term asset owners and managers, while seeking high risk-adjusted returns and efficiently allocating scarce financial capital to the highest value economic activities, have the essential and formidable role of ensuring the sustainability of return. But generally accepted financial accounting met...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability
• 2. The Value and Limits of Financial Accounting
• 3. Financial Markets and Pricing
• 4. Discounting and Cost-Benefit Analysis
• 5. The Value of Environmental Accounting in Public Decision Making
• 6. The Monetization of Natural Capital in Corporate Investment
• 7. The Returns to Good Stakeholder Relations
• 8. Sustainable investing in public markets
• 9. Impact investing in private markets
• 10.Conservation finance and payments for ecosystem services
• 11.Clean-tech finance and the transition to renewable energy
• 12.Social entrepreneurship and distributed poverty alleviation
• 13.Financing innovation in sustainability.