The De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and Finance
explores the difficult and challenging issues confronting society and
the environment, in the contexts of unprecedented climate change,
bio-diversity loss and the global pandemic.
In this seminal text exploring a wide range of topics, and in the
devastating wake of COVID-19, scholars and practitioners analyse the
effectiveness of current and proposed actions to build a sustainable
future, and the public and private finance necessary to prevent an
impending planetary catastrophe.
The first section of the handbook introduces readers to the origins and
evolution of sustainable development. An examination of public and
private finance follows in the next two sections, presented from the
perspectives of authors from both 'developed' and 'developing'
countries. Climate change, one of the largest sectors of finance for
sustainable development, is investigated in detail, as is the new and
emerging development frontier, the 'blue' economy of the world's oceans.
Suitable for students, policymakers and the public at large, the
handbook highlights the lessons learned and points the way forward for
sustainable development and finance in the wake of the global pandemic,
and the challenges to come.