Green Businesses for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future in Africa -- Constraints and Opportunities for Innovation in Green Enterprises: Implications for Land and Water Management in Rural Uganda -- An Analysis of Factors in Influencing Green Entrepreneurship -- Analysis of Crop Yield Volatility...

Part I. State of the Art -- 1. An Overview of Green Finance -- 2. Defining Green Finance: Existing Standards and Main Challenges -- 3. The Development of Green Finance by Sector -- 4. Sustainable Finance Management -- 5. Financial Performances of Green Securities -- 6. Institutional Initiatives...

The implementation of the circular economy will entail a major transformation from a resource-destroying, linear economy to a circular one that operates within the planet’s regenerative boundaries. This book presents an interim assessment of the implementation of a circular economy in the EU....

Einführung -- Warum ein Haushalten in Kreisläufen unsere Wirtschaft revolutionieren könnte -- Wirtschaftliche Zukunft – die Kreislaufwirtschaft durchläuft eine Phase des Wandels -- Money makes the world go ‘round? -- Die Prozesse zur Kreislaufwirtschaft im Europäischen Parlament -- Die...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Ideological Trick of Climate Change and Sustainability -- 3. Words Count: the Role of Language in Overcoming Climate Inertia -- 4. Measuring Complex Socio-Economic Phenomena. Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 5. Glaciers: Vanishing Elements of our Mountains and...

PART I. FACTORS AND CONDITIONS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS -- Challenges of Corporate Risk Management after the Global Financial Crisis (K. Benetti) -- “Hexagon” of Property (S. V. Domnina, S. Y. Salynina) -- Have the Lessons about Crisis Processes in the...

This book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and...

1: Macro-economic and Financial Policies for Sustainability and Resilience -- 2: Can Economic Growth Last Forever? -- 3: Forms of Ownership for Sustainability and Resilience: the Need for Biodiversity and Corporate Diversity -- 4: Equality, Resilience and Sustainability: Rebalancing Commercial...

This edited volume comprises ideas, visions, strategies, and dreams of entrepreneurs, managers, scientists and political experts who share their best practice experience relating to the joint goal of a more sustainable, humanistic, and responsible fashion industry. Readers will find a variety of...

This book provides an interdisciplinary account of how technological advances - mainly in the domains of energy and transportation - contribute to the transformation towards a more sustainable economic system. Drawing on methods from engineering, the management sciences and economics, which it...