Stranded Assets and the Environment

Risk, Resilience and Opportunity
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-45897-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

Reihe: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

Drawing on the work of leading researchers and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including economic geography, economics, economic history, finance, law, and public policy, this edited collection provides a comprehensive assessment of stranded assets and the environment, covering the fundamental issues and debates, including climate change and societal responses to environmental change, as well as its origins and theoretical basis.

The volume provides much needed clarity as the discourse on stranded assets gathers further momentum. In addition to drawing on scholarly contributions, there are chapters from practitioners and analysts to provide a range of critical perspectives. While chapters have been written as important standalone contributions, the book is intended to systematically take the reader through the key dimensions of stranded assets as a topic of research inquiry and practice. The work adopts a broad based social science perspective for setting out what stranded assets are, why they are relevant, and how they might inform the decision-making of firms, investors, policymakers, and regulators. The topic of stranded assets is inherently multi-disciplinary, cross-sectoral, and multi-jurisdictional and the volume reflects this diversity.

This book will be of great relevance to scholars, practitioners and policymakers with an interest in include economics, business and development studies, climate policy and environmental studies in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caldecott, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Boxes

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: stranded assets and the environment

By Ben Caldecott

2. Stranded assets: then and now

By Dimitri Zenghelis, Roger Fouquet and Ralph Hippe

3. The ‘decarbonisation identity’: stranded assets in the power generation sector

By Alexander Pfeiffer

4. Stranded assets: an environmentally-driven framework of sunk costs

By Elizabeth Harnett

5. The stranding of upstream fossil fuel assets in the context of the transition to a low-carbon economy

By Jakob Thomä

6. Examining stranded assets in power generation: coal, gas and nuclear

By Daniel J. Tulloch

7. Understanding climate-related stranded assets in the global real estate sector

By Kevin Muldoon-Smith and Paul Greenhalgh

8. Knowing the risks: how stranded assets relate to credit risk assessment and the debt markets

By Michael Wilkins

9. An introduction to directors’ duties in relation to stranded asset risks

By Sarah Barker

10. Climate change: what implications for central banks and financial regulators?

By Sandra Batten, Rhiannon Sowerbutts and Misa Tanaka

11. Diversifying stranded asset risks by investing in ‘green’: mobilising institutional investment in green infrastructure

By Christopher R. Kaminker

12. Stranded assets as economic geography: the case for a disciplinary home?

By Ben Caldecott

13. Next steps for stranded assets and the environment

By Ben Caldecott

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Caldecott is the Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme at the University of Oxford, UK. He has pioneered key concepts in his field, including the concept of ‘stranded assets’ and is the leading academic researcher in this area internationally.