In Search of the Good Dam: A Role for Corporate Social Responsibility in Mekong Hydropower Development

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Author(s): Terry Clayton (Red Plough International Co. Ltd., Thailand)and Nicole West (David Suzuki Foundation, Canada)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 19
Source title: Empowering Organizations through Corporate Social Responsibility
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ruth Wolf (Bar Ilan University, Israel), Theodora Issa (Curtin University, Australia)and Monica Thiel (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7294-9.ch015

Keywords: Business and Organizational Research / Business Science Reference / Ethics & Law / Security & Forensics

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There are few places in the world where hydropower development is progressing as intensely as the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia. In searching for ways of supporting public dialog on development, the Challenge Program on Water and Food found that the hydropower sector speaks of social responsibility only in terms of “benefit sharing,” while the development sector and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) largely ignore or are unaware of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The chapter begins with an overview of hydropower development in the Mekong, considers some possible reasons for the absence of CSR in the ongoing debate over hydropower development, and concludes with recommendations for designing a project to build on the findings from this research.

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