Routledge handbook of social and sustainable finance / edited by Othmar M. Lehner

PART I The landscape of Social and Sustainable Finance and Investments -- chapter I I.1 Introducing Social and Sustainable Finance -- chapter I I.2 Introducing Impact Investing -- chapter I I.3 Special Instruments -- PART II Challenges, Suggestions, Critiques, and Debates -- chapter II II.1 Social Responsibility in Finance: ideology, risk and new models -- chapter II II.2 Critical Perspectives on Markets, Institutions, and Ideology -- chapter II II.3 Hybridity, Business Models, and Measurement -- PART III Markets and Institutions -- chapter III III.1 Social and Sustainable Banking -- chapter III III.2 Trading the Environment -- chapter III III.3 Country Specifics and Cases

Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance brings together an international cast of leading authorities to map out and display the disparate voices, traditions and professional communities engaged in social finance activity. With a clear societal or environmental mission, foundations, individual and group investors, as well as public bodies around the world have become increasingly eager to finance and support innovative forms of doing business. Together, founders and established businesses alike are embracing new sustainable business models with a distinct stakeholder approach to tackle social or environmental problems in what they see as a failed economic system in crisis. As a result, the topic of social and sustainable finance is at the forefront of financial economic thought