Introduction to the special issue: Scaling Up Green Finance in Asia

In this special issue of IJERPH, we feature studies conducted by research translation and community engagement teams that are funded through the Superfund Research Program in the United States. These and other teams funded by this program demonstrate how environmental and health communication research can contribute to generalizable lessons about helping and empowering contaminated communities. These types of applied behavioral, social and communication projects are important because while much about our communities is unique and must be addressed on a case by case basis, other aspects of research translation and community engagement processes are potentially generalizable across sites and can thus be used to scale up solutions to toxic contamination to other communities and countries more rapidly than would otherwise occur.

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Scaling Up Efforts to Promote the Self-Determination of People with Developmental Disabilities

Exceptionality ◽

10.1080/09362835.2011.537219 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 2-5 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Carl Calkins ◽

Michael Wehmeyer ◽

Ansley Bacon ◽

Tamar Heller ◽

Hill M. Walker

Keyword(s):

Developmental Disabilities ◽

Scaling Up ◽

The Self ◽

Self Determination ◽

Special Issue

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Internet Finance, Green Finance, and Sustainability

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11143856 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (14) ◽

pp. 3856 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kai Wang ◽

Sang-Bing Tsai ◽

Xiaomin Du ◽

Datian Bi

Keyword(s):

Hot Spots ◽

Academic Research ◽

Operating Mechanism ◽

Special Issue ◽

Financial Industry ◽

Green Finance ◽

Internet Finance ◽

The Operating Mechanism ◽

The Relationship

This special issue, “Internet Finance, Green Finance, and Sustainability”, is focused on the prosperous financial industry and the relationship between finance and sustainability. It especially gathers papers pertaining to the hot topic of internet finance and green finance in this field, as well as the manuscripts exploring the operating mechanism between finance and sustainability, both of which are closely linked to the hot spots and pressing demands of society. Therefore, this special issue is of particular valuable for both academic research and the development of society.

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Scaling Up Renewable Energy Assets: Issuing Green Bond via Structured Public-Private Collaboration for Managing Risk in an Emerging Economy

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14113076 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (11) ◽

pp. 3076

Author(s):

Jingyan Fu ◽

Artie W. Ng

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Financial Incentives ◽

Credit Rating ◽

Financial System ◽

Scaling Up ◽

Emerging Economy ◽

Carbon Trading ◽

Economic Returns ◽

Green Finance ◽

Energy Assets

Green bonds have increasingly been utilized around the world as a source of financing for renewable energy development, designed with compliance requirements and measurable economic returns to investors, while mitigating climate change. However, the efficacy of green bond arranged in the emerging economies for financing renewable energy assets and how the underlying risks are managed have remained to be explored. The paper aims to examine the evolving green financial system sponsored by both public and private institutions in managing such risks within China’s emerging economy. A case study of green financing for a bundle of wind power assets led by a state-owned enterprise (SOE) reveals an alternative approach by structuring public–private collaboration while stipulating market-based financial incentives to institutional stakeholders under a political economy. This institutional consortium is composed of a state development bank, a commercial bank, credit rating agencies, institutional and private investors, regional power purchasers, and carbon trading entities. Financial stakeholders’ risk in such emerging sustainable investment is moderated by these participating institutions and structured “upsides” from carbon trading aligned with the framework of green finance and standards for green bond development. The results reveal the potentials of scaling up the development of renewable energy by adequately managing and sharing key risks, while allocating substantial funding into renewable energy projects under such a green financial system that is to be complementary with a scalable post COVID-19 economic recovery.

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Introduction to the special issue “scaling up of agroforestry innovations: enhancing food, nutrition and income security”

Agroforestry Systems ◽

10.1007/s10457-021-00689-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Josiane Seghieri ◽

Isabelle Droy ◽

Kiros Hadgu ◽

Frank Place

Keyword(s):

Scaling Up ◽

Special Issue ◽

Income Security ◽

Food Nutrition

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Implementation-related research in mathematics education: the search for identity

ZDM ◽

10.1007/s11858-021-01302-w ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Boris Koichu ◽

Mario Sánchez Aguilar ◽

Morten Misfeldt

Keyword(s):

Education Research ◽

Mathematics Education ◽

Implementation Research ◽

Scaling Up ◽

Mathematics Education Research ◽

Future Research ◽

Special Issue ◽

Related Research ◽

Survey Paper ◽

Research In Mathematics Education

AbstractImplementation has always been a paramount concern of mathematics education, but only recently has the conceptualizing and theorizing work on implementation as a phenomenon begun in our field. In this survey paper, we conduct a hermeneutic review of mathematics education research identified as related to the implementation problematics. The first cycle of the review is based on examples of studies published in mathematics education journals during the last 40 years. It is organized according to five reasons for developing implementation research. The second cycle concerns 15 papers included in this special issue and is organized by four themes, as follows: objects of implementation, stakeholders in implementation, implementation vs. scaling up, and implementability of mathematics education research. The paper is concluded with a refined glossary of implementation-related terms and suggestions for future research.

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Sustainable Finance and the Move to a Circular Economy

From Ideas to Action ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198852308.003.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 249-294

Author(s):

Janis Sarra

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Economic Activity ◽

Scaling Up ◽

Green Energy ◽

Green Finance ◽

Net Zero ◽

Conservation Finance ◽

Sustainable Finance

Ultimately, our goal is to move beyond ideas, beyond action to net zero and then to ‘climate positive’; to create a circular economy that relies on renewable energy, designs waste out of the system as much as possible, conserves and enhances biodiversity, and frames economic activity so that it is fair and equitable, and is good for the planet and society. This chapter is a forward-looking vision for sustainable finance to support these goals. It discusses scaling-up of resources to decarbonize and links sustainable finance with sustainable development. It explores the European Commission’s vision for a sustainable and climate neutral economy. It looks at Indigenous partnerships in green finance and green energy and the potential contributions of conservation finance. The chapter then turns to examples of sustainable finance in a number of sectors.

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Scaling Up of Green Finance in a Post-COVID-19 Era

10.4018/978-1-7998-8501-6.ch004 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 77-91

Author(s):

Patrizio Giganti ◽

Pasquale Marcello Falcone

Keyword(s):

Financial Markets ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Scaling Up ◽

Financial Systems ◽

Green Finance ◽

Strategic Niche Management ◽

Multi Level ◽

Novel Concept

Transitioning towards sustainability requires fundamental changes in policies, institutions. Green Finance is a novel concept which is discussed to address current environmental issues. This chapter illustrates obstacles and solutions to the greening of financial systems to provide an overview on the scaling up of Green Finance in a post COVID-19. The frameworks of Strategic Niche Management and Multi-Level Perspective are used to walk the reader in analyzing relevant steps for sustainability, also in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Implications are derived focusing on the concepts of mission-oriented policies and nudges applied to financial markets.

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Scaling up: How computational models can propel bilingualism research forward

Bilingualism Language and Cognition ◽

10.1017/s1366728918000755 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 22 (04) ◽

pp. 682-684 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

PING LI ◽

ANGELA GRANT

Keyword(s):

Empirical Data ◽

Word Length ◽

Computational Models ◽

Scaling Up ◽

Special Issue ◽

Frequency Word ◽

Orthographic Similarity ◽

Behavioral Studies ◽

Phonological Neighborhood

The Multilink model that Dijkstra, Wahl, Buytenhuijs, van Halem, Al-jibouri, de Korte, and Rekké (2018) present is an excellent example that connects empirical patterns obtained from behavioral studies with mechanisms that can be implemented in computational models. We have previously argued that implementation of computational models is important because it forces the researchers to be explicit about assumptions and to specify parameters and variables that may be absent in verbal models. The Multilink model, along with BIA/BIA+ and many other models, provides concrete hypotheses regarding the role of variables such as word frequency, word length, orthographic similarity, and phonological neighborhood for researchers to test and verify against empirical data (see examples in the special issue on computational modeling published in this journal; Li, 2013).

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