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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 Sustainability 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 financeExplores the effects of environmental regulation on the economy and businessesEmphasizes research about the trade-environmental regulation nexus, relevant for economics and business students
INDICE: 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 6. Corporate Social Responsibility and Macroeconomic Uncertainty 7. A Fool on Green Hills? 8. What Holds Back Eco-Innovations? A Green Growth Diagnostics Approach 9. Trade Openness and Co2 Emission: Evidence from a SIDS 10. Will TAFTA be Good or Bad for the Environment? 11. Feminism, Environmental Economics, and Accountability Section 3: Environmental/Sustainable Finance 12. Does National Culture Affect Environment Practices? 13. The Economic and Financial Effects of Environmental Regulation 14. Environmental Challenges and Financial Market Opportunities 15. Environmental Investment Strategies 16. The Relationship between Screening Intensity and Performance of Socially Responsible Investment Funds 17. Using CO2 Emission Allowances to Equity Portfolios 18. The returns from Investing in Water Markets in Australia 19. Product Market Competition and Corporate Environmental Performance Section 4: Funding and Accounting Systems 20. The Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit Analysis as Applied to Environmental Regulation 21. The Crowdfunding of Renewable Energy Projects 22. From Environmental Economics to Accounting System Design: Weighing Up the Costs and Benefits of Sustainability