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Environmental Finance and Investments

Marc Chesney

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Description for Environmental Finance and Investments Hardcover. Series: SPRINGER TEXTS IN BUSINESS AND. .
This textbook provides an introduction to environmental finance and investments. The current situation raises fundamental questions that this book aims to address. Under which conditions could carbon pricing schemes contribute to a significant decrease in emissions? What are the new investment strategies that the Kyoto Protocol and the emerging carbon pricing schemes around the world should promote? In the context of carbon regulation through emission trading schemes, what is the trade-off between production, technological changes, and pollution? What is the nature of the relation between economic growth and the environment? This book intends to provide students ... Read more

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Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Format

Hardback

Publication date

2015

Series

Springer Texts in Business and Economics

Condition

New

Weight

464g

Number of Pages

197

Place of Publication

Berlin, Germany

ISBN

9783662481745

SKU

V9783662481745

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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days

Ref

99-15

About Marc Chesney

Marc Chesney holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Geneva and obtained his habilitation from the Sorbonne University. He is currently Professor of Finance and Vice-Director of the Department of Banking and Finance of the University of Zurich where he created the Environmental Finance course. He is an expert in quantitative finance (real options) and environmental economics. He ... Read morewas previously Professor and Associate Dean at HEC Paris. Jonathan Gheyssens holds a PhD in Economics from the NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation at ETH Zurich and is in charge of economic research activities for the REDD+ Finance and Sustainable Land Use division of UNEP's Finance Initiative based in Geneva, Switzerland. His research is focused on real options, environmental and climate economics, and REDD schemes. Anca Claudia Pana is a young researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She completed her Bachelor studies in Banking and Finance at the University of Bucharest, Romania. In 2010, she graduated from the MSc in Financial Engineering and Risk Management at HEC Lausanne, Switzerland. Since then she is enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Zurich, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney. Her research interests are environmental and resource economics, market failures, real options, and development economics. Luca Taschini is an expert in environmental economics, industrial organisation, energy economics, finance and the application of economics to public policy issues. He is a Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics where he leads the Carbon Trading and Finance research programme. His current research investigates how market-based environmental regulations are working in theory and in practice. More specifically, he is studying the functioning of cost containment mechanisms, market participation restrictions, and the linkage of environmental markets. He has led consulting work on market-based instruments including work on designing emission trading systems and the design of the EU Market Stability Reserve and other supply control mechanisms. He holds an Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich, and an M.A. in Politics and Economics from the University of Bergamo. He was also a visiting scholar at the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (MIT) and at the Research Center for Sustainability Science (Ritsumeikan University - Japan). Show Less

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Contributors are to be congratulated since they produced a very good text on environmental finance and economics academically valuable and very useful for practitioners. An outstanding work, providing a very agreeable reading, simultaneously rigorous and pedagogic, written specially for undergraduate and graduate students, journalists, policy makers and NGOs. Indispensable for academics and practitioners in the field of environmental finance and ... Read more

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