LEADER 04213nam 22006375 450 001 9910349524303321 005 20251010083534.0 010 $a9783030056247 010 $a3030056244 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-05624-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000009606274 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5946185 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-05624-7 035 $a(Perlego)3492678 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5946122 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009606274 100 $a20191016d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Financial Ecosystem $eThe Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability /$fby Satyajit Bose, Guo Dong, Anne Simpson 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (436 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Impact Finance,$x2662-5113 311 0 $a9783030056230 311 0 $a3030056236 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aLong term asset owners and managers, while seeking high risk-adjusted returns and efficiently allocating scarce financial capital to the highest value economic activities, have the essential and formidable role of ensuring the sustainability of return. But generally accepted financial accounting methods are ill-equipped to provide clear signals of the risks and opportunities created by scarce natural and human capital. Hence many investment managers in global financial markets, while performing due diligence on portfolio companies, examine metrics of non-financial performance, especially environmental, social and governance (ESG) indicators. Broken into three sections, this book outlines the rationale for and methods used in six areas where financial acumen has been harnessed to the goal of combining monetary return with long run sustainability. The first section offers an introduction to the role of finance in achieving sustainability, and includes an overview of the six areas?sustainable investing, impact investing, decentralized finance, conservation finance, and cleantech finance. The methods section of the book illustrates analytical tools and specialized data sources essential to those interested in increasing the level of social responsibility embedded in economic activity. The applications section describes and differentiates each of the six areas and their roles in advancing specific measures of sustainability. . 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Impact Finance,$x2662-5113 606 $aDevelopment economics 606 $aFinancial services industry 606 $aInternational finance 606 $aDevelopment Economics 606 $aFinancial Services 606 $aInternational Finance 615 0$aDevelopment economics. 615 0$aFinancial services industry. 615 0$aInternational finance. 615 14$aDevelopment Economics. 615 24$aFinancial Services. 615 24$aInternational Finance. 676 $a332.0415 676 $a332 700 $aBose$b Satyajit$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0985835 702 $aDong$b Guo$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aSimpson$b Anne$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910349524303321 996 $aThe Financial Ecosystem$92253328 997 $aUNINA