ABSTRACT
Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance brings together an international cast of leading authorities to map out and display the disparate voices, traditions and professional communities engaged in social finance activity.
With a clear societal or environmental mission, foundations, individual and group investors, as well as public bodies around the world have become increasingly eager to finance and support innovative forms of doing business. Together, founders and established businesses alike are embracing new sustainable business models with a distinct stakeholder approach to tackle social or environmental problems in what they see as a failed economic system in crisis. As a result, the topic of social and sustainable finance is at the forefront of financial economic thought.
This Handbook is divided up into three parts. The first, "The Landscape of Social and Sustainable Finance and Investments", comprises of chapters from a multitude of perspectives in an effort to grasp the entirety of the landscape. The second, "Challenges, Suggestions, Critiques and Debates", focuses on areas ranging from sociological underpinnings to critical takes on markets, and the identification of specialized business models. Amongst ethical considerations, topics include the scaling of impact, an analysis of sustainability as risk prevention and comparative analyses of various methods of justification and measurement. In the third and final section, "Markets and Institutions", contributions range from various perspectives on sustainable banking to environmental marketplaces, and finally on to practical cases and country specific observations.
This volume is essential reading for both academics and students in economics and finance. It is also of interest to those who study environmental economics, microeconomics and banking.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|188 pages
The Landscape of Social and Sustainable Finance and Investments
part I.1|80 pages
Introducing Social and Sustainable Finance
chapter 5|15 pages
Academic Research into Social Investment and Impact Investing
part 1.2|54 pages
Introducing Impact Investing
part 2.1|52 pages
Special Instruments
chapter 11|12 pages
Lending To Social Ventures
part II|274 pages
Challenges, Suggestions, Critiques, and Debates
part II.1|132 pages
Social Responsibility in Finance: ideology, risk, and new models
chapter 13|18 pages
Seeing Ourselves As Others See Us
part II.2|58 pages
Critical Perspectives on Markets, Institutions, and Ideology
chapter 19|17 pages
Studying Crowdfunding Through Extreme Cases
chapter 21|17 pages
The Convergence Paradox of Islamic Finance
part II.3|82 pages
Hybridity, Business Models, and Measurement
chapter 24|15 pages
Measuring And Comparing Social Value Creation
chapter |17 pages
Sustainable Institutional Investment Models And The Human Capital Analytics Approach
part III|265 pages
Markets and Institutions
part III.1|104 pages
Social and Sustainable Banking
chapter 30|18 pages
The Quality Of Bank Capital In Cooperative Banks
part III.2|52 pages
Trading the Environment
chapter 35|12 pages
Credit Risk And Ecosystem Services
chapter 36|8 pages
Evolution Of The Eu Emissions Trading System
part III.3|107 pages
Country Specifics and Cases