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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Preface: an epiphany of Social and Sustainable Finance; PART I The landscape of Social and Sustainable Finance and Investments; PART II Challenges, Suggestions, Critiques, and Debates; PART III Markets and Institutions; Index; I.1 Introducing Social and Sustainable Finance; I.2 Introducing Impact Investing; I.3 Special Instruments; II.1 Social Responsibility in Finance: ideology, risk and new models; II.2 Critical Perspectives on Markets, Institutions, and Ideology II.3 Hybridity, Business Models, and MeasurementIII.1 Social and Sustainable Banking; III.2 Trading the Environment; III.3 Country Specifics and Cases; 1 The landscape and scale of Social and Sustainable Finance; 2 Sustainable finance: building a more general theory of finance; 3 The architecture of social finance; 4 The emergence and institutionalization of the field of social investment in the United Kingdom; 5 Academic research into social investment and Impact Investing: the status quo and future research; 6 Impact Investing; 7 Social Impact Investing: a model and research agenda 8 Impact Investing: funding social innovation9 Crowdfunding social ventures: a model and research agenda; 10 Social Impact Bonds: exploring and understanding an emerging funding approach; 11 Lending to social ventures: existing demand for finance and the potential roles of social investment; 12 Social responsibility in Islamic Finance; 13 Seeing ourselves as others see us: incorporating reflexivity in Corporate Social Responsibility; 14 Socially Responsible Investment as emergent risk prevention and means to imbue trust in the post-2008/2009 World Financial Crisis economy 15 Socially Responsible Investments and Islamic investments: is there a difference?16 Social investment and fiduciary responsibilities; 17 Corporate Social Responsibility and financial performance in Italian co-operative banks; 18 Integral sustainability or how evolutionary forces are driving investors' trust and the integration of people, planet, and profit; 19 Studying crowdfunding through extreme cases: cursory reflections on the social value creation process of a potato salad project; 20 Institutional analysis of Venture Philanthropy 21 The convergence paradox of Islamic Finance: a sociological reinterpretation, with insights for proponents of social finance22 Joint social-financial value creation in social enterprise and social finance and its implications for measurement creation and measurement of profit and impact in social financing; 23 Organizational hybridity in social finance: a comparative analysis; 24 Measuring and comparing social value creation.

Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance brings together an international cast of leading authorities to map out and display the disparate voices, traditions and professional communities engaged in social finance activity. With a clear societal or environmental mission, foundations, individual and group investors, as well as public bodies around the world have become increasingly eager to finance and support innovative forms of doing business. Together, founders and established businesses alike are embracing new sustainable business models with a distinct stakeholder approach to tackle social or environmental problems in what they see as a failed economic system in crisis. As a result, the topic of social and sustainable finance is at the forefront of financial economic thought.