Airong Zhang

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured and modelled the critical elements of social licence by conducting a longitudinal study in an Australian mining region and found that building trust with local communities was crucial for mining companies to obtain and maintain a social licence to operate.

TL;DR: A critical review of the emergence of the concept in industry practice over the last two decades is presented in this paper, where the roles of trust, fairness and governance may underpin the development of more sustainable, trust-based relationships between industry and society.

TL;DR: It is proposed that a common mechanism accounts for the willingness of fused people to die for smaller and larger groups, when fused people perceive that group members share core characteristics, they are more likely to project familial ties common in smaller groups onto the extended group, and this enhances willingness to fight and die for the larger group.

TL;DR: An identity resource model in which personal self-esteem is boosted by membership in additional important social groups is proposed and tested, suggesting that membership in multiple important groups boosts personalSelf-esteem because people take pride in, and derive meaning from, important group memberships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how the public's perceptions of the distributional fairness of the benefits of mining, procedural fairness in the interactions between the mining industry and society, and confidence in the governance arrangements surrounding the industry affect the publics trust in the mine industry and their acceptance of mining activities at a national scale.