Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance [Hardcover]

The use of financial concepts and tools to shape development is hardly new, but their recent adoption by advocates of sustainable environmental management has created opportunities for innovation in business and regulatory groups. The Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance summarizes the latest trends and attitudes in environmental finance, balancing empirical research with theory and applications. It captures the evolution of environmental finance from a niche scholarly field to a mainstream subdiscipline, and it provides glimpses of future directions for research. Covering implications from the Kyoto and Paris Protocols, it presents an intellectually cohesive examination of problems, opportunities, and metrics worldwide.

• Introduces the latest developments in environmental economics, sustainable accounting work, and environmental/sustainable finance
• Explores the effects of environmental regulation on the economy and businesses
• Emphasizes research about the trade-environmental regulation nexus, relevant for economics and business students

Section 1: Environmental Regulations Post the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change

1. Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol: an Overview

2. Environmental Policies Post the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change: Evidence from US and Japan

3. Efficiency of U.S. State EPA Emission Rate Goals for 2030: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

Section 2: Environmental Economics

4. Environmental Water Governance in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia: The Movement from Regulation and Engineering to Economic-Based Instruments

5. Damages Evaluation, Periodic Floods, and Local Sea Level Rise: The Case of Venice, Italy

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