Sustainable Development Risks and Risk Management (eBook)

This book is devoted to a systemic study of socio-economic development risks arising in the Decade of Action, as well as the prospects for risk management in support of sustainable development. It aims to overcome fragmentary consideration of risks in the existing literature through their comprehensive coverage and the establishment of their interconnections from the perspective of sustainable development.

The novelty of this book is that it provides a comprehensive accounting of socio-economic development risks in the Decade of Action, as well as a rethinking of these risks from a sustainable development perspective. The book also opens up the possibility of the most comprehensive and effective risk management in support of sustainable development. The practical relevance of the book stems from the fact that it describes and discusses practical experience in detail and accompanies the theoretical material with numerous case studies, including cases and frameworks with extensive coverage of international best practices.

The book is intended for scholars, for whom the book forms a systemic scientific view of the risks of socio-economic development arising in the Decade of Action, as well as the prospects for risk management in support of sustainable development. The book is also of interest to practitioners, for whom it offers practical advice on risk management at all levels of the economy for sustainable development. Many examples from different countries make the book attractive to a wide international audience. The book is of particular interest to readers from Russia.

Elena G. Popkova is a Doctor of Science (Economics) and the founder and president of the Institute of Scientific Communications (Russia), as well as the professor of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia. Her scientific interests include the theory of economic growth, sustainable development, globalization, humanization of economic growth, emerging markets, social entrepreneurship, and the digital economy and Industry 4.0. Elena G. Popkova organizes Russian and international scientific and practical conferences and is the editor and author of collective monographs, as well as the author of the book 'Advanced Issues in the Green Economy and Sustainable Development in Emerging Market Economies' which was published online by Cambridge University. She serves as an editor of international scientific journals, is the specialty chief editor for 'Economics of Climate Change - Frontiers in Environmental Economics', Frontiers Publishing. Elena G. Popkova has published more than 300 works in Russian and foreign peer-reviewed scientific journals and books.