This book offers a comprehensive guide to the transformative power of green finance, circular economy principles, and digital technologies in driving sustainable urban development. Through global case studies and expert analysis, it explores how municipalities can leverage green bonds, how circular economy policies can be scaled, and how digital platformsfrom AI to blockchaincan accelerate the shift to a greener, more resilient economy. Designed for policymakers, urban planners, investors, and sustainability professionals, the book offers actionable strategies and forward-looking roadmaps at the intersection of finance, technology, and environmental stewardship. Featuring a global cast of contributors from both academia and practice, it will be of particular interest to academics, investors, and policymakers engaged in green finance, sustainable development, and alternative financing.

Discusses the impact of AI and offers a roadmap for integrating green finance, policy, and technology Illustrates how cities can finance sustainability through green bonds and digital innovation Reflects on the economic effects of the introduction and application of new technologies

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Dr. Anna Rumyantseva, Ph.D. of Economics, Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs of St. Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics (Russia), is a leading expert in corporate finance, strategic financial management, financial and managerial accounting.

Prof. Dr. Marijana Joksimovi is a Full Professor of Economics, Finance and Banking at Alfa BK University and a Senior Scientific Associate at the Institute for Agricultural Economics in Belgrade (Serbia). She has authored over 110 scientific and professional papers, five books, and three monographs. She also serves as a reviewer for SSCI- and Scopus-indexed journals. She was a visiting professor at Franklin University (USA) in 2014/15 and at Adriatic University (Montenegro) in 2022/2023.

Dr. Elena Sintsova, Ph.D. of Economics, Head of the Department of International Finance and Accounting of St. Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics (Russia), is a leading specialist in Sustainable Development, Business Processes and Management of Companies and Industry.

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Architecting an inclusive green financial ecosystem: the role of AI in aligning public budgeting, citizen initiatives, and sustainable capital markets.- An integration approach to developing a digital economy using sustainable development goals and artificial intelligence technologies.- Artificial intelligence as a catalyst for sustainable development: the role of innovative project management in Russia's green economy transition.- The role of AI as a cross-cutting technology in balancing the macro- and micro-levels of the green economy.- Artificial intelligence and the green economy: a critical systems analysis of technological solutionism.- Management of financial and investment activities of enterprises of the industrial-production complex in the context of implementing the concept of sustainable development with the use of new digital technologies.- AI-driven strategic management for sustainable digital ESG development of industrial ecosystems .- The digital financial assets market for sustainable development and its boundaries expansion in the context of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies application.- Designing an algorithm for selecting an innovative financial instrument for sustainable investing using artificial intelligence technologies.- Opportunities for implementing of green bonds by municipalities and green cities.- Habitualization of green practices as the basis of bioeconomic transformations in the Russian agro-industrial complex.- Ai technologies in the implementation of ESG criteria by transport business organizations.- Assessing the dynamics of renewable electricity generation using a relative multidimensional comparison criterion and artificial intelligence methods.- A lightweight model for tectonic coal image classification.- The role of artificial intelligence in ensuring food security.- The role of regional economic communities in formulating a strategy for using artificial intelligence to achieve sustainable development goals.- Green growth perspectives in the western Balkan economies.- Circular economy as an instrument of sustainable development of the European Union and Serbia.- Leveraging digital platforms to enable the transition from a linear to a circular economy: opportunities, challenges, and strategies.- Factors determining the configuration of mineral resources supplying mechanism of national economy.- Green human resource management in the digital age: assessing its impact on green employee behaviour.- Application of artificial intelligence in the green economy: risks, challenges, and ethical aspects of management and strategic administration.- Regulating artificial intelligence in the green economy: a legal framework for accountability and legitimacy in the Russian environmental governance.- Artificial intelligence and increasing of the economic efficiency of an industrial enterprise.- Assessing performance and risks based on financial and non-financial reporting data to ensure sustainable enterprise development using intelligent systems.- Ai for a green economy: unlocking pathways to sustainable growth.- Artificial intelligence as a catalyst of the green economy: driving sustainability, circularity and decarbonisation.- Study on digital health and patient-centric healthcare sustainability in Europe.- Digital support to de-risking strategies in global supply chains.