The interrelationship between economic growth, efficient use of natural resources, and sustainability has been of great interest to economists, researchers and policy makers. Knowledge of actual causality direction between sustainability, efficiency and growth has important implications for...

Part I - Financial sector, regulation, supervision and sustainability: Rute Saraiva, ESG factors in pensions funds regulations: Why, how far have they gone, and what is the potential for improvement? -- Luciane Moessa, Benchmarking of national ESG banking regulations: State of art and remaining...

Part I: Climate Change challenge, CSR, ESG issues: the state of the art -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapater 2: Self-consciousness and awareness as adaptation enablers -- Chapter 3: Climate change challenges and the policy makers initial response -- Chapter 4: SRI, ESG and Value of...