Professor Benjamin J. Richardson holds the Senior Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. His long-standing scholarship on socially responsible investing, sustainability and the financial economy includes the books Socially Responsible Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Environmental Regulation through Financial Organizations (Kluwer, 2002).

This book takes a broader look at the issues facing socially responsible investment (SRI )and fiduciary duties. It evaluates how the fiduciary duties and some related legal rules governing financial institutions shape the prospects for socially responsible investment, and theorises how to reform this area of law to promote investment that supports environmentally sustainable development. The book elaborates a legal framework to promote environmentally responsible fiduciary finance, drawing upon the public trust doctrine to formulate a concept of "nature's trust" as the principal tool for a fundamental paradigm shift in financial investment towards sustainability.

1. Responsible Investing in an Unsustainable World 2. The Influence of Responsible Investment 3. Fiduciary Finance Law 4. Fiduciary Law in Retail and Institutional Finance 5. Sovereign Wealth Funds 6. The Public Fiduciary: In Nature's Trust