Research Catalog

Title

The financial ecosystem : the role of finance in achieving sustainability / Stayajit Bose, Guo Dong, Anne Simpson.

Author

Bose, Satyajit

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dong, Guo
• Simpson, Anne (sustainable investment expert)

Description

xvii, 427 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Summary

"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 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."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in impact finance

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in impact finance.

Subjects

• Impact investing
• Economic development
• Social responsibility of business
• Investment analysis
• Capital market
• Sustainability > Economic aspects
• Investments > Environmental aspects
• Investments > Moral and ethical aspects
• Finance > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The role of finance in achieving sustainability -- The financial ecosystem -- Governing the corporation -- Accounting for sustainability : frameworks for the aggregation of financial and non-financial metrics -- Signals of scarcity and financial performance -- Cost-benefit analysis and discounting -- The monetization of natural capital in corporate investment -- Human capital and the returns to stakeholder relations -- Capital structure and social capital : diverse forms of investment -- Sustainable investing and asset allocation at global scale -- Impact investing -- Decentralized finance -- Conservation finance and payment for ecosystem services -- Financing clear technology innovation and the transition to renewable energy -- The cooperative movement and social enterprise -- Toward the common wealth and the common weal.

Call Number

JFD 20-2715

ISBN

• 9783030056230
• 3030056236
• 9783030056247 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1064745362

Author

Bose, Satyajit, author.

Title

The financial ecosystem : the role of finance in achieving sustainability / Stayajit Bose, Guo Dong, Anne Simpson.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in impact finance

Palgrave studies in impact finance.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Dong, Guo, author.

Simpson, Anne (sustainable investment expert), author.

Other Form:

Online version: Bose, Satyajit. Financial ecosystem. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 9783030056247 (OCoLC)1124958270

Research Call Number

JFD 20-2715