Full Description
This book sheds light on the topic of financial water risk by examining the modeling challenges associated with physical, regulatory, and reputational water risk in finance. It explores various approaches to operationalize water risk from a financial analysis, investment management, and climate science perspective. The analysis of tools to assess water risk provides the basis for the development of appropriate risk-return management techniques in finance and beyond. This book provides new insights by focusing on financial water threats and their related opportunities. It will be of interest to both academics and practitioners who work at the interface of finance, economics, nature, and society.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Framework of Financial Water Risk.- Chapter 2: Drivers of water risk and their interaction.- Chapter 3: Water risk and climate change.- Chapter 4: Interaction effects of water risk in finance and society.- Chapter 5: Opportunities from water risk.- Part II: Modeling Financial Water Risk.- Chapter 6: Presentation of specific water risk models (different chapters).- Chapter 7: Financial water risk and accounting/risk reporting.- Chapter 8: Water risk stress testing.- Chapter 9: Modelling financial water risk approaches using neural networks, artificial intelligence, and other advanced methods.- Part III: Managing Financial Water Risk.- Chapter 10: Financial water risk and the use of data science (e.g., advances in high-resolution geo-mapping).- Chapter 11: Water risk governance of companies and countries.- Chapter 12: Water risk insurance.- Chapter 13: Water risk derivatives.- Chapter 14: Water risk management of investment portfolios.- Chapter 15: Directions in water risk regulations.- Chapter 16: Conclusions.
