This book offers a comprehensive guide to the transformative power of green finance, circular economy principles, and digital technologies in driving sustainable urban development. Through global case studies and expert analysis, it explores how municipalities can leverage green bonds, how circular economy policies can be scaled, and how digital platformsfrom AI to blockchaincan accelerate the shift to a greener, more resilient economy. Designed for policymakers, urban planners, investors, and sustainability professionals, the book offers actionable strategies and forward-looking roadmaps at the intersection of finance, technology, and environmental stewardship. Featuring a global cast of contributors from both academia and practice, it will be of particular interest to academics, investors, and policymakers engaged in green finance, sustainable development, and alternative financing.
Architecting an inclusive green financial ecosystem: the role of AI in
aligning public budgeting, citizen initiatives, and sustainable capital
markets.- An integration approach to developing a digital economy using
sustainable development goals and artificial intelligence technologies.-
Artificial intelligence as a catalyst for sustainable development: the role
of innovative project management in Russia's green economy transition.- The
role of AI as a cross-cutting technology in balancing the macro- and
micro-levels of the green economy.- Artificial intelligence and the green
economy: a critical systems analysis of technological solutionism.-
Management of financial and investment activities of enterprises of the
industrial-production complex in the context of implementing the concept of
sustainable development with the use of new digital technologies.- AI-driven
strategic management for sustainable digital ESG development of industrial
ecosystems .- The digital financial assets market for sustainable development
and its boundaries expansion in the context of artificial intelligence and
machine learning technologies application.- Designing an algorithm for
selecting an innovative financial instrument for sustainable investing using
artificial intelligence technologies.- Opportunities for implementing of
green bonds by municipalities and green cities.- Habitualization of green
practices as the basis of bioeconomic transformations in the Russian
agro-industrial complex.- Ai technologies in the implementation of ESG
criteria by transport business organizations.- Assessing the dynamics of
renewable electricity generation using a relative multidimensional comparison
criterion and artificial intelligence methods.- A lightweight model for
tectonic coal image classification.- The role of artificial intelligence in
ensuring food security.- The role of regional economic communities in
formulating a strategy for using artificial intelligence to achieve
sustainable development goals.- Green growth perspectives in the western
Balkan economies.- Circular economy as an instrument of sustainable
development of the European Union and Serbia.- Leveraging digital platforms
to enable the transition from a linear to a circular economy: opportunities,
challenges, and strategies.- Factors determining the configuration of mineral
resources supplying mechanism of national economy.- Green human resource
management in the digital age: assessing its impact on green employee
behaviour.- Application of artificial intelligence in the green economy:
risks, challenges, and ethical aspects of management and strategic
administration.- Regulating artificial intelligence in the green economy: a
legal framework for accountability and legitimacy in the Russian
environmental governance.- Artificial intelligence and increasing of the
economic efficiency of an industrial enterprise.- Assessing performance and
risks based on financial and non-financial reporting data to ensure
sustainable enterprise development using intelligent systems.- Ai for a green
economy: unlocking pathways to sustainable growth.- Artificial intelligence
as a catalyst of the green economy: driving sustainability, circularity and
decarbonisation.- Study on digital health and patient-centric healthcare
sustainability in Europe.- Digital support to de-risking strategies in global
supply chains.
Dr. Anna Rumyantseva, Ph.D. of Economics, Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs of St. Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics (Russia), is a leading expert in corporate finance, strategic financial management, financial and managerial accounting.
Prof. Dr. Marijana Joksimovi is a Full Professor of Economics, Finance and Banking at Alfa BK University and a Senior Scientific Associate at the Institute for Agricultural Economics in Belgrade (Serbia). She has authored over 110 scientific and professional papers, five books, and three monographs. She also serves as a reviewer for SSCI- and Scopus-indexed journals. She was a visiting professor at Franklin University (USA) in 2014/15 and at Adriatic University (Montenegro) in 2022/2023.
Dr. Elena Sintsova, Ph.D. of Economics, Head of the Department of International Finance and Accounting of St. Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics (Russia), is a leading specialist in Sustainable Development, Business Processes and Management of Companies and Industry.
