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Social licence and mining: A critical perspective
John R. Owen,Deanna Kemp +1 more
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In this article, the authors argue that a necessary first step in this process is for industry to reconcile its internal risk-orientation with external expectations which requires a less defensive and more constructive approach to stakeholder engagement and collaboration.About:
This article is published in Resources Policy.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 537 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Stakeholder engagement & Stakeholder.read more
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The paths to social licence to operate: An integrative model explaining community acceptance of mining $
Kieren Moffat,Airong Zhang +1 more
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.
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An analysis of factors leading to the establishment of a social licence to operate in the mining industry
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative case study analysis of four international mining operations is presented, including Red Dog Mine in Alaska, USA, Minto Mine in Yukon, Canada, the proposed Tambogrande Mine in Peru, and the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea.
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The social licence to operate: a critical review
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.
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Community engagement and social licence to operate
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider what social licence is, how community engagement plays a role in achieving social licence and how an alternative conceptualisation of social licence may improve the influence of community engagement in achieving a social licence to operate.
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Maintaining legitimacy of a contested practice: How the minerals industry understands its ‘social licence to operate’
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted interviews with 16 managers in the mining industry in Australia to explore how these managers conceptualised social licence in relation to notions such as legitimacy, approval, and consent, how they interpret processes of social license in practice, and how they differentiate it from concepts such as CSR.
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Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation
Arun Agrawal,Clark C. Gibson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the conceptual origins of the community, and the ways the term has been deployed in writings on resource use, and analyze those aspects of community most important to advocates for community's role in resource management.
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Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries
TL;DR: The good governance agenda is unrealistically long and growing longer over time as discussed by the authors, and there is little guidance about what's essential and what's not, what should come first and what should follow, what can be achieved in the short term and what can only be achieved over the longer term, what is feasible and what is not, and more attention is given to sorting out these questions, "good enough governance" may become a more realistic goal for many countries faced with the goal of reducing poverty.
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Participation and Accountability at the Periphery: Democratic Local Governance in Six Countries
TL;DR: In this article, a six-country study sponsored by USAID analyzed the two topics of participation and accountability, finding that both show significant potential for promoting DLG, though there seem to be important limitations on how much participation can actually deliver, and accountability covers a much wider range of activity and larger scope for DLG strategy than initially appears.
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