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Our world is experiencing increasingly complex social and
environmental challenges. The prevailing business models and, to
some extent, capitalism per se, are frequently blamed for these
problems due to their neglect of social and environmental values in
favour of financial returns. Within this context, social finance
has attracted the attention of governments, organizations,
entrepreneurs, and researchers as a means of mobilizing resources
and innovation with the goal of establishing effective long-term
solutions. This edited collection summarizes, discusses, and
analyzes new innovative trends in social finance. It features
contributions that aim to highlight emerging trends (products,
tools, and processes) in social finance, present a series of case
studies related to the development, deployment, and scaling of
social finance innovations, offer an understanding of how
non-economic externalities are being incorporated, managed, and
assessed in recent innovations, reveal the disruptive potential of
social finance innovations by analyzing how they are redefining
mainstream finance, analyze the scales - of operation and impact -
of different innovations, and explore the complex relationship
between social finance and social innovation. Featuring
contributions from both the research and practitioner community as
well as policy actors, the book provides more than a snapshot of
the current social finance field by specifically highlighting the
major challenges and difficulties that require the urgent attention
of policymakers and social entrepreneurs.
Our world is experiencing increasingly complex social and
environmental challenges. The prevailing business models and, to
some extent, capitalism per se, are frequently blamed for these
problems due to their neglect of social and environmental values in
favour of financial returns. Within this context, social finance
has attracted the attention of governments, organizations,
entrepreneurs, and researchers as a means of mobilizing resources
and innovation with the goal of establishing effective long-term
solutions. This edited collection summarizes, discusses, and
analyzes new innovative trends in social finance. It features
contributions that aim to highlight emerging trends (products,
tools, and processes) in social finance, present a series of case
studies related to the development, deployment, and scaling of
social finance innovations, offer an understanding of how
non-economic externalities are being incorporated, managed, and
assessed in recent innovations, reveal the disruptive potential of
social finance innovations by analyzing how they are redefining
mainstream finance, analyze the scales - of operation and impact -
of different innovations, and explore the complex relationship
between social finance and social innovation. Featuring
contributions from both the research and practitioner community as
well as policy actors, the book provides more than a snapshot of
the current social finance field by specifically highlighting the
major challenges and difficulties that require the urgent attention
of policymakers and social entrepreneurs.
This book will provide a space for new and emergent research in
environmental migration, particularly in the context of a world
beginning to emerge from the grip of a debilitating public health
crisis that kept many firmly rooted in place while displacing
others internationally. With famines, vast wildfires, droughts, and
record heatwaves uprooting human settlements internationally,
research on migration in the face of emerging risks is all the more
urgent. As Balsari, Dresser, & Leaning
point out, “the wall-building, xenophobic, and insular”
platforms of some global powers in their immigration and asylum
policies, and the ever-increasing stresses placed on the natural
world that continue to make sites of human settlement less and less
hospitable, make research on this topic both very timely and much
needed. This book will include numerous case studies, historical
analyses, projections, models, and recommendations for both policy
and future research directions. Contributions are drawn from
academics and practitioners in this fertile interdisciplinary field
of academic inquiry, and each one focuses on the intersection of
population and environment studies, history, geography, law,
diaspora studies, economics, public health, and sociology. This
book is composed of five clear sections. The introductory
section includes one chapter that presents an overview of the
current landscape, the scope and objectives of the book, as well as
its specific approach and the various themes. The concluding
section is composed of one chapter that presents a global map of
recent innovations drawing together some of the core themes
discussed throughout the book. The concluding chapter synthesizes
the challenges and opportunities presented, and the possible future
directions that researchers, practitioners, and regulators could
and should move towards.
This edited collection presents a selection of essays on the
history of Irish masculinities. Beginning with representations of
masculinity in eighteenth-century drama, economics, and satire, and
concluding with work on the politics of masculinity post
Good-Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the collection advances
the importance of masculinities in our understanding of Irish
history and historiography. Using a variety of approaches,
including literary and legal theory as well as cultural, political
and local histories, this collection illuminates the differing
forms, roles, and representations of Irish masculinities. Themes
include the politicisation of Irishmen in both the Republic of
Ireland and in Northern Ireland; muscular manliness in the Irish
Diaspora; Orangewomen and political agency; the disruptive
possibility of the rural bachelor; and aspirational constructions
of boyhood. Several essays explore how masculinity is constructed
and performed by women, thus emphasizing the necessity of
differentiating masculinity from maleness. These essays demonstrate
the value of gender and masculinities for historical research and
the transformative potential of these concepts in how we envision
Ireland's past, present, and future.
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