Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts
以意大利建筑公司WeBuild的38个大型水坝项目为案例，从非政府组织、学者等多方收集证据，揭示企业可持续性报告与实际情况的差距，质疑当前企业社会责任机制的可信度。
), an Italian transnational construction company. Starting from the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (EJAtlas), we collect evidence from NGOs, environmental justice organizations, journalists, scholars, and community leaders on socio-environmental injustices and controversies surrounding 38 large hydropower schemes built by the corporation throughout the last century. As a counter-reporting exercise, we code (un)sustainability discourses from a plurality of sources, looking at their discrepancy under the critical lenses of post-normal science and political ecology, with environmental justice as a normative framework. Our results show how the mismatch of narratives can be interpreted by considering the voluntary, self-reporting, non-binding nature of CSR accounting performed by a corporation wishing to grow in a global competitive market. Contributing to critical perspectives on political CS(I)R, we question the reliability of current CSR mechanisms and instruments, calling for the inclusion of complexity dimensions in and a re-politicization of CS(I)R accounting and ethics. We argue that the fields of post-normal science and political ecology can contribute to these goals. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10551-021-04946-6.