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This edited collection presents, reviews, and critically analyzes
sustainable practices and long-term-oriented decision-making in
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Campus closures and the quick
transition to hybrid or e-learning as a result of the COVID-19
pandemic caused HEI stakeholders, including students, faculty, and
staff, to swiftly adopt new ways of learning, teaching, and
administering that were unfathomable only months before. This
radical and challenging shift left many in academia with a sense
that there is tremendous potential for HEIs to take the lead –
both from an educational and practical standpoint – in fostering
on- and off-campus sustainability and combatting climate change. In
this book, the editors and their contributors
systematically highlight current challenges that are slowing
or derailing HEIs’ finance-related initiatives and practices
geared toward sustainability. The case studies collected in this
book provide a holistic overview of the ways in which financial and
other long-term decisions can lead to more sustainable practices in
higher education.Â
This edited book aims to ignite both an academic and
practitioner-oriented discussion regarding the question how the
business and government sector can adapt to today's fast-changing
climate. Specifically, the collection seeks to explore how
businesses and policy makers can prepare for a world where
freshwater is scarce, extreme weather events are common, floods and
wildfires are frequent, and global sea levels rise by more than two
meters. In addition to assessing incremental approaches, it
explores strategies that employ interdisciplinary and innovative
solutions to climate change adaptation. The chapters included in
this book examine and propose business and policy solutions for
climate-induced economic, technical, urban, and societal
challenges. It draws on an international range of prominent authors
and, therefore, will be of interest for academics and practitioners
working in the field of sustainability management, sustainable
finance, sustainable operations management, food management,
strategy, and environmental management. It can also serve as a
valuable guide for practitioners and policymakers in those fields.
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.
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