Sustainable Innovation and Impact (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Krosinsky, Cary; Cort, Todd

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book will provide a roadmap of the many critical pathways of positive change emerging to achieve modern day societal success, including corporate and investment innovation and impact strategy considerations. Krosinsky and Cort consider ideas framed around the circular economy, operational and supply chain strategies and the global economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351174817
• Artikelnr.: 56835417

Autorenporträt

Cary Krosinsky is a leading educator, author, advisor and social entrepreneur seeking to solve sustainability challenges through corporate and investment strategy. He teaches at Yale University, USA; Concordia University, Canada; the University of Maryland, USA; and Brown University, USA; and Co-founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative and Real Impact Tracker. Todd Cort is Lecturer in Sustainability at the Yale School of Management and Faculty Co-director of Yale's Center for Business and the Environment, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Cary Krosinsky and Todd Cort
2. What is Innovation?
Arthur Matuszewski
Part 1 Corporate Perspectives
3. Searching for Sustainability in Human Capital
Alex Kappes
4. The potential of multi-stakeholder engagement: Argentina's Ledesma as a
case study
Nora Moraga-Lewy
5. Up in Smoke: A Study of Palm Oil Related Deforestation in Indonesia
Pek Shibao
6. Sustainability Frameworks: Green Chemistry and Sustainable Engineering
in Pharmaceuticals
Susan Wang
Part 2 Investment Perspectives
Introduction
7. To Divest or Not to Divest
Laila Gamaleldin
8. Shareholder Activism 2.0
Melanie Condon
9. Financing Mechanisms for Sustainable Infrastructure
Ella Warshauer
10. Carbon Market Solutions
Jeff Schwartz
11. Investing in the Context of China's Green Transition
Lillian Childress
12. Sustainable Private Equity and Venture Capital
Matt Dittrich
13. Islamic Systems Finance
Alizeh Maqbool
14. Forest Resilience Bonds: A Case For Investing in Forest Health
Zach Knight and Chad Reed
15. Financing the Future: Free Market Solutions for an Energy Transition
Eric Esposito
Part 3 Regional Innovations
Introduction
16. New England's Winter Chills
Steven Castano
17. Innovation and Impact from a Brazilian Perspective
Andreia Marin Martins, Courtnay Guimaraes, Mauricio Neves dos Santos
18. An Exploration of Landfill Tax as a Waste Management Strategy
Jason Mazzella
19. Germany's Simple Solution to Complex Waste Challenges
Reilly Witheford
20. Infrastructure and the Future of New York City
Marvin Krosinsky
21. African Impact Investing
Masengo Kapanga
Part 4 Technological innovation and the future
22. Smart Microgrids
Sarah Brandt
23. Effective Disruption: How Blockchain can transform the Energy Sector
Pascale Bronder
24. Artificial Intelligence as a Solution to Sustainability Challenges
Tiffany Chen
25. The Potential for High-Speed Rail in the US
Cayley Geffen
26. Shared Solar
Gabe Rissman
27. Renewable Energy Technologies
Kristina Krasteva
28. The Future of the Electric Car
Reilly Witheford
29. Aquaponics in Canada's North: Food Supply for Remote Communities
Christopher Codina-Lucia and Richard Frazao
30. Innovation in Materials and Energy
Pascale Bronder
31. Geoengineering
Peter Mahony