Download or read book Environmental Debt written by Amy Larkin and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that our most important challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protection could be left to future generations. Now, in the wake of billions of dollars in costs associated with coastal devastation from Hurricane Sandy, rampant wildfires across the West, and groundwater contamination from reckless drilling, it's increasingly clear that yesterday's carefree attitude about the environment has morphed into a fiscal crisis of epic proportions. Environmental Debt argues that the costs of global warming, extreme weather, pollution, and other forms of "environmental debt" are wreaking havoc on the economy. To combat these trends, author Amy Larkin proposes a new framework for twenty-first century commerce, based on three principles: 1) Pollution can no longer be free; 2) All business decision making and accounting must incorporate the long view; and 3) Government must play a vital role in catalyzing clean technology and growth while preventing environmental destruction. Profiling the multinational corporations that are transforming their operations with downright radical initiatives, Larkin presents smart policy choices that would actually unleash these business solutions to many global financial and environmental problems.
Download or read book Environmental Debt written by Amy Larkin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the role of conservation in economic success, comparing the costs of artificial environmental controls naturally performed by mature trees while calling on governments to identify the money-saving contributions of nature.
Download or read book Toxic Debt written by Josiah Rector and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, environmentally unregulated industrial capitalism produced outsized environmental risks for poor and working-class Detroiters, made all the worse for African Americans by housing and job discrimination. Then as the auto industry abandoned Detroit, the banking and real estate industries turned those risks into disasters with predatory loans to African American homebuyers, and to an increasingly indebted city government. Following years of cuts in welfare assistance to poor families and a devastating subprime mortgage meltdown, the state of Michigan used municipal debt to justify suspending democracy in majority-Black cities. In Detroit and Flint, austerity policies imposed under emergency financial management deprived hundreds of thousands of people of clean water, with lethal consequences that most recently exacerbated the spread of COVID-19. Toxic Debt is not only a book about racism, capitalism, and the making of these environmental disasters. It is also a history of Detroit's environmental justice movement, which emerged from over a century of battles over public health in the city and involved radical auto workers, ecofeminists, and working-class women fighting for clean water. Linking the histories of urban political economy, the environment, and social movements, Toxic Debt lucidly narrates the story of debt, environmental disaster, and resistance in Detroit.
Download or read book The Concept of Ecological Debt written by Erik Paredis and published by Academia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the scientific report of a research project that aimed to clarify the concept of ecological debt, and to study its relevance and applicability in Belgian and international policy.
Download or read book Debt written by Peter Y. Paik and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring questions of what we owe—to corporations, to governments, to each other, to the past, and to the future. From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic and literary creativity involves the artist’s dialogue with the works of the past; and that the specter of catastrophic climate change has underscored the debt those living in the present owe to future generations. “A welcome range of new perspectives on what has become a central issue for contemporary debate.” —Anthropological Notebooks
Download or read book The Ecological Debt written by José María Borrero Navia and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological debt : archeology and meaning of the concept - Erosion of a paradigm - Financial debt and ecological debt - Free market environment - To measure or not to measure the ecological debt? - Findings and challenges.
Download or read book Ecological Debt written by Andrew Simms and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine opening a bank letter at breakfast to find that instead of your normal overdraft, you had an ecological debt that threatened the planet. If the whole world wanted to live like people in the United Kingdom we would need the resources of three planets like Earth. If the United States was our model the number would be five. Simms shows how millions of us in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide. Whilst these debts go unpaid, millions more living in poverty in the majority world suffer the burden of paying dubious foreign financial debts. The book explores a great paradox of our age: how the global wealth gap was built on ecological debts, which the world's poorest are now having to pay for. Highlighting how and why this has happened, he also shows what can be done differently in the future - and what steps we can take to stop pushing the planet to the point of environmental bankruptcy.
Download or read book Debt and the Environment written by Morris Miller and published by New York : United Nations Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sales no. E.91.I.17"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-273) and index.
Download or read book Thinking about the Environment written by T. M. Robinson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should the work of the ancient and the medievals, so far as it relates to nature, still be of interest and an inspiration to us now? The contributions to this enlightening volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship's debt to the classical and medieval past. Thinking About the Environment synthesizes religious thought and environmental theory to trace a trajectory from Mesopotamian mythology and classical and Hellenistic Greek, through classical Latin writers, to medieval Christian views of the natural world and our relationship with it. The work also offers medieval Arabic and Jewish views on humanity's inseparability from nature. The volume concludes with a study of the breakdown between science and value in contemporary ecological thought. Thinking About the Environment will be a invaluable source book for those seeking to address environmental ethics from a historical perspective.
Download or read book The Environmental Debt written by Arne Jernelöv and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Green are Green Debt Issuers written by Jochen Schmittmann and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green debt markets are rapidly growing while product design and standards are evolving. Many policymakers and investors view green debt as an important component in the policy mix to achieve the transition to a low carbon economy and ensure the pricing of climate risks. Our analysis contributes to the nascent literature on the environmental impact of green debt by documenting the CO2 emission intensity of corporate green debt issuers. We find lower emission intensities for green bond issuers relative to other firms, but no difference for green loan and sustainability-linked loan borrowers. Green bond, green loan, and sustainability-linked loan borrowers lower their emission intensity over time at a faster rate than other firms.
Download or read book Ecological Debt written by Andrew Simms and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much do you owe the environment?
Download or read book Care Climate and Debt written by Benjamin C. Wilson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume spans economics, history, sociology, law, graphic design, religion, environmental science, politics and more to offer a transdisciplinary examination of debt. From this perspective, many of our most pressing social and environmental crises are explored to raise critical questions about debt’s problems and possibilities. Who do we owe? Where are the offsetting credits? Why do such persistent deficits in care permeate so much of our lives? Can we imagine new approaches to balance sheets, measures of value, and justice to reconcile these deficits? Often regarded as a constraint on our ability to meet the challenges of our day, this volume reimagines debt as a social construct capable of empowering people to organize and produce sustainable prosperity for all. This text is ideal for provoking classroom discussions that not only point out the gravity of the crises we face in the twenty-first century, but also seeks to set readers’ minds free to create innovative solutions.
Download or read book Ecological Debt written by Andrew Simms and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of this highly acclaimed guide-- 'Creative and compelling.' Guardian 'Essential reading.' Head of the IPCC 'A new phrase has entered the language.' Anita Roddick This is the second edition of Andrew Simm's highly regarded guide to climate change and some possible solutions.
Download or read book Global Waves of Debt written by M. Ayhan Kose and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global economy has experienced four waves of rapid debt accumulation over the past 50 years. The first three debt waves ended with financial crises in many emerging market and developing economies. During the current wave, which started in 2010, the increase in debt in these economies has already been larger, faster, and broader-based than in the previous three waves. Current low interest rates mitigate some of the risks associated with high debt. However, emerging market and developing economies are also confronted by weak growth prospects, mounting vulnerabilities, and elevated global risks. A menu of policy options is available to reduce the likelihood that the current debt wave will end in crisis and, if crises do take place, will alleviate their impact.
Download or read book Environmental Finance written by Sonia Labatt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-10-04 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and comprehensive look at the intersection of financial innovation and the environment This unique book provides readers with a comprehensive look at the new markets being created to help companies manage environmental risks, including weather derivatives, catastrophe bonds, and emission trading permits. Filled with real-world case studies and timely advice, Environmental Finance contains corporate strategies that financial service professionals as well as their clients must understand in order to proactively improve a company's environmental performance.
Download or read book Lender Liability written by John Jarvis (QC.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lender Liability is a new and potentially devastating aspect of environmental liability that all those advising corporates and Financial Institutions must be aware of. Co-published by UKELA, the text covers the potentially ruinous litigation that can ensue from ignorance of environmental liability that can be attached to most asset classes, the US experience, civil liability, criminal liability, seizure of profits, the issues for lenders, the relationship with the activity and with land, and self-protection in the form of safe lending and safe debt-collection. As environmental criteria gain increasing importance when deciding upon company acquisitions, insolvencies, and asset-security, this book is essential reading for any corporate, banking, insolvency or environmental lawyer, as well as accountants, bankers and receivers.
