Understandings of Social Investment in the Oil and Gas Sector

This book explores research that contributes to the current literature on the Oil and Gas Sector by analysing the multiple discourses that experts use to examine social investment. This book explains how these discourses influence social investment practices and host communities in the O&G sector.
This book serves as a starting point from which companies, social investment experts, communities, host country governments, and international banks can build more participatory and community-centred social investment programmes to promote positive futures.
The book suggests an alternative approach to O&G social investment, where social investment represents one of the main tools of social engagement, rather than its substitute; and where care instead of profit, becomes the driver of O&G social investment.

Rafaela Costa Camões Rabello is a research fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has worked and published extensively within the fields of corporate social responsibility, responsible innovation, and social investment.