1st Edition

Environmental Finance for the Developing World

By Michael Curley Copyright 2020
294 Pages
by CRC Press

294 Pages
by CRC Press

Financing the Global Environment examines the financial techniques and strategies necessary to obtain funding to undertake infrastructure and environmental projects. Despite conventional notions that monies are typically not readily available for large-scale environmental projects, the book explains how this is usually not the case, and will provide the necessary steps, tools, and... Read more

Chapter 1 Financing the Global Environment

Chapter 2 Measuring Income

Chapter 3 Maximizing Cash Available for Debt Service

Chapter 4 Loan Basics

Chapter 5 Project Valuation

Chapter 6 Financial Feasibility

Chapter 7 Alternative Finance Options

Chapter 8 Sources of Funds

Chapter 9 Cost/Benefit Analysis

Chapter 10 Tariff Design

Chapter 11 Subsidies

Biography

Michael Curley is a lawyer and a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. He writes books about environmental law and finance and has taught at the Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University and the Vermont Law School. In 2018-19, he provided the Environmental Commentary on Maryland's public radio station, WYPR. Michael has worked in 40 countries and has built clean water and basic sanitation systems in Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. And when he's not doing that, he's writing novels and short stories...