Introduction

1. Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement: The Concept, Practice and Governance

Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives

2. Stakeholder Theory and Communities: Navigating Processes of Meaningful Engagement with Marginalized Communities

3. Reflections on the meaning of “Community” in Inclusive Stakeholder Engagement

4. Practice note: Sámi Community Life in an Age of Modernization and Welfare Development? Reflections on Participation in Industry Development and Employment in a Mixed Norwegian-Sámi Coastal Community

5. Representing Rights of Nature through Meaningful Engagement? An Epistemic Justice Perspective

Part II: Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Impact Assessment and Other Semi-regulated Contexts

6. The Long and Winding Road to Meaningful Public Participation in Impact Assessment: A Review of Key Issues in the Brazilian and Canadian Federal Assessments

7. A Right to Have One’s Say but not to Have One’s Way: Tensions Affecting Practices and Expectations of Public Participation in Impact Assessment in Iceland and Greenland

8. Practice Note: A Failure of Praxis: The Application of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in the Australian Resources Sector

9. Opportunities for Meaningful Engagement: A Canadian Perspective on Regulatory Tribunals

10. Practice Note: Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement: The Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE): Guided by Principles

11. Practice Note: Reflections on the Context and Implications of the Transition from Canada’s Extractive Sector Corporate Social Responsibility Counsellor to the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise

12. Consultation and Multi-level Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in the Norwegian Sami Areas

13. Practice Note: The experience of a Saami reindeer community affected by a large wind power project

14. Understanding Unilateral, Bilateral, and Multilateral Approaches to Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in the Design and Implementation of Operational Grievance Mechanisms

15. Practice Note: Mediation to Generate Meaningful Remedy for Affected People: The Heineken/Bralima Case as an Example of Conflict Resolution within the Framework of OECD National Contact Points

Part III: Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Sectoral Contexts

16. An Agential Constructivist Analysis of Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Africa’s Mining Sector: Insights from the Democratic Republic of Congo

17. Practice Note: Meaningful Community Engagement in the Mining Industry: The Alcoa Case at the Brazilian Amazon

18. Meaningful Engagement in Canada: A Case Study of Doig River, a Treaty 8 First Nation

19. Practice Note: Creating Meaningful Community Engagement Outcomes: A Practitioner’s Perspective

20. A Gendered Approach for Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement: The Case of Women Affected By a Mining Disaster In Brazil

21. Wind Power, Mining and Stakeholder Engagement in Finland

22. Meaningfulness of Stakeholder Engagement in Ghana Oil Sector: The Case of Local Chiefs in the Western Region Negotiating for Oil Benefits

23. Practice Note: Multi-stakeholder Engagement in Extractive Areas in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Guinea: Perspectives across Africa

24. Just Energy Transitions and Indigenous Experiences in Chile: Integrating Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement and Energy Justice

25. Examining Challenges of Top-Down Stakeholder Engagement: A Comparative Study of Mining Conflicts in Southern Mexico

26. Practice Note: Creating Meaningful Engagement with Mega-construction Project Workers and Spectators in Complex Environments

27. Stakeholder Engagement in Foreign-invested Textile Operations in Ethiopia: Enhancement of ESG Standards and Performances of Chinese Invested Textile and Garment Enterprises

Part IV: Research and Methodological Perspectives

28. Considering Research Participants as ‘Affected Stakeholders’: Implications for Methodological Choices and Meaningful Engagement Outcomes

29. Practice Note: The Craft of Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Social Science Research: Lessons from a Research Project on Leadership and (In)equality in Greenland

30. Assessing Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement through Ethics Standards: Lessons from the Samarco Dam Break and its Operational-level Remediation Program

Conclusion

31. The Future of Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement: Integrating Values, Norms and Practices