The Environmental Finance & Risk Management program will be based on the rationale that spending money is required for large-scale human-driven environmental change (e.g. land development, resource extraction and harvesting, manufacturing, distribution, disposal, cleanup, restoration). Human actions as financial transactions are essential, since "conservation without finance is just conversation." Integrating finance and natural systems can be achieved by linking financial theory and innovations to environmental sciences.
This program will support emerging research involving risk management, resilience, sustainability and coupled systems. It will also emphasize environment-linked finance's relevance to a growing number of exciting commercial and policy applications. Our approach advances a holistic viewpoint that identifies key interrelationships between finance and the human dimensions of environmental change.
Initiatives
FIU has applied for a federal grant administered by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, to establish an Environmental Finance Knowledge and Innovation Center (EF-KIC). Interested persons are invited to submit comments on this application and program.
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Contact
Mario Loyola
Research Assistant Professor; Director, Environmental Finance & Risk Management
mloyola@fiu.edu
Enrique Villamor
Professor; Associate Director, Environmental Finance & Risk Management, Institute of Environment
villamor@fiu.edu
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