The potential role of strategic environmental assessment in the activities of multi-lateral development banks

Annandale, David; Bailey, John; Ouano, Ely Anthony R.; Evans, Warren; King, Peter

doi:10.1016/s0195-9255(01)00080-4

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“…A number of academic surveys have identifi ed a positive correlation between environmental performance and fi nancial performance (Annandale et al, 2001;Dasgupta et al, 2002;Dowell et al, 2000;Klassen and McLaughlin, 1996;Nakao et al, 2007). Studies have been done on the chain of cause and effect between environmental performance and fi nancial performance (Bansal and Roth, 2000;Lankoski, in press;Reinhardt, 1999;Steger, 2000) as well as on factors that infl uence the strength of the correlation (Russo and Fouts, 1997).…”

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Incorporating sustainability criteria into credit risk management

2008

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Does a commercial debtor's economic, environmental and social performance in terms of sustainability affect its credit risk rating? Does adding criteria aimed at assessing a lender's environmental, social or sustainability practices provide added value to traditional fi nancial rating criteria? Many analyses have reported that a correlation exists between companies' environmental and their fi nancial performance. We checked out the assertion that it 'pays to be sustainable' by analyzing the role that criteria pertaining to sustainability and environmental orientation play in the commercial credit risk management process. Our results show that sustainability criteria can be used to predict the fi nancial performance of a debtor and improve the predictive validity of the credit rating process. We conclude that the sustainability a fi rm demonstrates infl uences its creditworthiness as part of its fi nancial performance.

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Section: T He Crisis About Asset Backed Securities Based On Risky Mormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It ranges from statistical correlative analyses using large samples (Annandale et al, 2001;Dasgupta et al, 2002;Dowell et al, 2000;Klaassen and Botterweg, 1976;Nakao et al, 2007) to case studies analyzing cause-effect relations (Steger, 2004, Romero Castro andPineiro Chousa, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

Incorporating sustainability criteria into credit risk management

2008

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“…Attention to scale is critical when diagnosing biodiversity institutions. Tiering provides one means of diagnosing this competency, by examining whether key principles, concepts or objectives from larger scales are carried down to smaller scale efforts (Annandale et al 2001).…”

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A diagnostic framework for biodiversity conservation institutions

Clément

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Lockwood

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Pac. Conserv. Biol.

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Biodiversity loss is a critical issue on the environmental agenda, with species based approaches failing to stem the decline. Landscape scale approaches offer promise, but require institutional change. This article describes a novel conceptual framework for 1 assessing institutional arrangements to tackle this persistent problem. In doing so, two critical issues for biodiversity governance are addressed. The first is a need to enrich largely theoretical descriptions of adaptive governance by considering how the practical realities of institutional environments (e.g. public agencies) limit achievement of an adaptive governance 'ideal'. The second is enabling explicit consideration of the unique aspects of biodiversity as a 'policy problem' in the analysis of institutional arrangements. The framework contributes to efforts to design more adaptive institutional arrangements, through supporting a more sophisticated and grounded institutional analysis incorporating insights from institutional theory, especially literature on organizational environments and public administration.Concepts from Pragmatism also contribute to this grounding, providing insight into how public agencies can play a more productive role in biodiversity conservation and building public consent for management actions. The diagnostic categories in the framework include the attributes of the biodiversity problem and the involved players; the political context; and practices contributing to both competence and capacity. Guidance on how to apply the framework and an example of its application in Australia illustrate the utility of this tool for institutional diagnosis and design.Development of this diagnostic framework could be further enhanced by empirically informed elaboration of the relationships between its components, and of the nature of and factors influencing key concerns for adaptation, particularly learning, self organizing and buffering.

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“…To this end a number of methods have been developed under the SEA umbrella (Dalkham et al, 2004;Petts, 1999;Porter and Fittidaldi, 1998;Renton and Bailey, 2000;Sadler and Verheem, 1996). However, many of these have focused on the decision-making or approval step for proposed programs and plans, rather than on the development of a policy (Annandale et al, 2001;Bailey and Dixon, 1999;Nilsson et al, 2005). This division between policies on the one hand and plan and programs on the other has been attributed to the inherently intangible nature of policy decisions and political factors that impact the decision-making process (Sadler and Verheem, 1996) and has led to the development of an outgrowth of SEA termed policy environmental assessment (PEA) (Bailey and Dixon, 1999;Therivel et al, 1992).…”

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