Green Finance and Sustainability: Environmentally-Aware Business Models and Technologies

Green Finance and Sustainability: Environmentally-Aware Business Models and Technologies

Zongwei Luo
Indexed In: SCOPUS
Release Date: April, 2011|Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 656
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-531-5
ISBN13: 9781609605315|ISBN10: 1609605314|EISBN13: 9781609605322
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The green movement refers to an emphasis on goods and services considered to inflict minimal or no harm on the environment, that have provided a low carbon roadmap to economic growth disassociated from greenhouse gas and other polluting emissions.

Green Finance and Sustainability: Environmentally-Aware Business Models and Technologies is devoted to examining a range of major issues concerning green finance and sustainability clustered into five sections on emerging environmentally aware business models, regulation and standard development, green ICT for sustainability, green finance and the carbon market, green manufacturing, logistics and SCM, and regional low carbon development. This book appears at the right time for the field and is written to bring insights and enlarge researchers' view into this urgent and import field.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Environmental evaluation of airports
  • Green Innovation
  • Green Logistics
  • Greener transportation infrastructure
  • Greening of suppliers
  • Low-carbon economy model
  • Sustainability-focused strategies
  • Sustainable regional ecosystems
  • Waste Management
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I believe this book appears at the right time. I genuinely hope it will bring insights and enlarge your view into this urgent field.

– Zongwei Luo, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Business scholars, environmental scientists, and engineers from both sides of the interface suggest how the financial sector can continue to increase profits without depleting finite resources or damaging the environment. They cover business models, regulation, and standards for sustainability; green information and communication technology sustainability; green finance and carbon market; green manufacturing, logistics, and supply-chain management; and regional development.

– Book News, Reference - Research Book News - August 2011
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Zongwei Luo is a senior researcher at the E-business Technology Institute, The University of Hong Kong (China). Before that, he was working at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Height (NY, USA). He also served as the Affiliate Senior Consultant to ETI Consulting Limited. His research has been supported by various funding sources, including China NSF, HKU seed funding, HK RGC, and HK ITF. His research results have appeared in major international journals and leading conferences. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Applied Logistics and serves as an associate editor and editorial advisory board member in many international journals. Dr. Luo’s recent interests include applied research and development in the area of service science and computing, innovation management and sustainable development, technology adoption and risk management, and e-business model and practices, especially for logistics and supply chain management.
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