Handbook of environmental and sustainable finance / edited by Vikash Ramiah and Greg N. Gregoriou.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 6, 2015).

Section 1. Environmental regulations post the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Climate change and Kyoto Protocol : an overview / Anil Gupta -- Environmental policies post the Kyoto Protocol on climate change : evidence from the US and Japan / Vikash Ramiah, Michael Gangemi, Min Liu -- Efficiency of U.S. state EPA emission rate goals for 2030 : a data envelopment analysis approach / Greg N. Gregoriou, Vikash Ramiah -- Section 2. Environmental economics. Environmental water governance in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia : the movement from regulation and engineering to economic-based instruments / Claire Settre, Sarah Ann Wheeler -- Damages evaluation, periodic floods, and local sea level rise : the case of Venice, Italy / Massimiliano Caporin, Fulvio Fontini -- Corporate social responsibility and macroeconomic uncertainty / Abraham Lioui -- Public value of environmental investments : a conceptual outlook on the management of normatively determined risks / Camillo von M�uller, Steven A. Brieger -- What holds back eco-innovations? : a "green growth diagnostics" approach / Harald Sander -- Trade openness and CO2 emission : evidence from a SIDS / Raja Vinesh Sannassee, Boopen Seetanah -- Will TAFTA be good or bad for the environment? / Dhimitri Qirjo, Robert Christopherson -- Feminism, environmental economics, and accountability / Tehmina Khan -- Section 3. Environmental/sustainable finance. Does national culture affect attitudes toward environment friendly practices? / Kartick Gupta, Ronald McIver -- The economic and financial effects of environmental regulation / Imad A. Moosa -- Environmental challenges and financial market opportunities / Colin Read -- Environmental finance / John Anderson -- The relationship between screening intensity and performance of socially responsible inventment funds / Philip Gharghori, Elizabeth Ooi -- Using CO2 emission allowances in equity portfolios / Michael Graham, Anton Hasselgren, Jarkko Peltom�aki -- The returns from investing in water markets in Australia / Sarah Ann Wheeler, Peter Rossini, Henning Bjornlund, Belinda Spagnoletti -- Product market competition and corporate environmental performance / Kartick Gupta, Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti -- Section 4. Funding and accounting systems. The costs and benefits of cost -- benefit analysis as applied to environmental regulation / Imad A. Moosa -- The crowdfunding of renewable energy projects / Davide Bonzanini, Giancarlo Giudici, Andrea Patrucco -- Management accounting and biodiversity : the cultural circuit of capitalism and the social construction of a perfect market? / Gillian Vesty, Albie Brooks, Judy Oliver, Sukanta Bakshi.

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 and Sustainable 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.