Anti-Crisis Approach to the Provision of the Environmental Sustainability of Economy

Elena G. Popkova · Bruno S. Sergi

Jun 2023 · Springer Nature

About this ebook

This book focuses on the notion of the environmental sustainability of the economy. The Sustainable Development Goals, formulated by the UN, led to the formation of a concept of the environmental sustainability of the economy. This concept implies the harmony of economy and environment, achieved due to the support for the SDGs in the economy. This book is original due to its reconsidering the environmental sustainability of the economy from the position of crises.

The theoretical significance of the book consists in the development of an anti-crisis approach to the provision of the environmental sustainability of the economy: responsible nature use based on digital markets and smart governance. The proprietary approach allows for the comprehensive description of the potential of the leading technologies—artificial intelligence (AI), robots, the Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain—to support—during their use in smart governance—crisis management of the environmental sustainability of economy.

The book’s practical significance is due to the description and detailed discussion of the modern international experience of responsible nature use given the specifics of developed and developing countries. The anti-crisis approach to the provision of the environmental sustainability of the economy is based on digital markets: FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, AgroTech, and EnergyTech, the practice of which is described in the book with the help of multiple examples from the international experience and case studies.

The book is aimed at scholars who study environmental economics. In this book, they find an innovative view of the environmental sustainability of the economy in its close connection with economic crises.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Elena G. Popkova completed Doctor of Economics and is an honored worker of science and higher education of the Russian Federation; the founder and the president of the Institute of Scientific Communications (Volgograd, Russia), a professor of Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), a member of the expert council at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, the author of more than 200 publications in Scopus (h-index: 35), the editor of more than 100 books and a large number of special issues of international peer-reviewed scientific journals, a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies and the International Journal for Quality Research, and the recipient of Highly Commended Paper Award for the journal On the Horizon for 2020 (Emerald). She is among Scopus top 2% of most-cited scholars of the world in 2019–2022

Bruno S. Sergi is an instructor at Harvard University, where he is also a faculty affiliate at the Center for International Development and an associate at the Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He is a full professor at the University of Messina, Italy. His research and teaching interests tie to the broader topic of the economics of emerging markets. In addition, he is the co-director of the Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development (LEAD), a research laboratory based in Cambridge (USA) that aims to generate and share knowledge about entrepreneurship, development, and sustainability.