Book Description:
This book treats the topics of preventive innovations and their financing possibilities as an interrelated whole. It provides an in-depth description of cleaner technologies, highlights environmental management accounting and material flow costing as tools for preventive innovation development, and gives an overview of environmental development measures for industry. It aims to raise awareness within financing institutions on financing options of preventive cleaner technologies, a highly debated topic also with options to reduce climate change. The text is supplemented with numerous figures, tables and annexes.

Table of Contents:
Foreword
Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction, pp. 1-13

Chapter 2. Sustainable Development Measures in Industry, pp. 15-84

Chapter 3. Environmental Management Accounting and Material Flow Cost Accounting as a Tool to Assess Cost Saving Potentials, pp. 85-123

Chapter 4. Development of Cleaner Production Projects, pp. 125-184

Chapter 5. CP Investment Financing, pp. 185-250

Chapter 6. Outlook, pp. 251-253

Chapter 7. Annexes, pp. 255-318

References
Authors
Index