Clarifying the current role of a social licence in its legal and political context: An examination of mining in Western Australia

Indigenous environmental justice through coproduction of mining restoration supply chains in Australia

“…ILUAs), the government implemented a set of safeguards to protect the interests of Indigenous Australians in mining activities throughout Australia. Notably, and relevant to Indigenous land holders where mines operate, the social license to operate and close a mine site have emerged as crucial elements to facilitate consultations with local communities and encourage business development (Robinson et al 2020). Government and industry expect these agreement‐making approaches to tackle a long history of inequality, create an equitable, ethical distribution of benefits, and reduce environmental and social risks (Langton 2015).…”

Get Ratioed

“…The Internet has provided a plethora of possibilities for activism and, although some may deride online activism as slacktivism (Hanna et al, 2016), critical comments on social media can play a significant role in undermining the social license of a project, company, or industry if community members view it as undesirable (Darimont et al, 2020;Robinson et al, 2020;Smith et al, 2017). Hanna et al (2016) compiled an impressive glossary of activism strategies that includes several activities applicable to online and social media settings, such as sharing satirical memes, "naming and shaming" (p. 229) guilty companies or individuals, communicating insults through political satire, tweeting about an issue, creating fake websites, sharing protest event information online, and hacking an organization's website.…”

Understanding societal approval of the fishing industry and the influence of third‐party sustainability certification

“…The diagrammatic representation of a conceptual model of the eight variables (adjacent to arrows) that represent different societal approval aspects taken from concepts identified in Bice et al (2017), Wüstenhagen et al (2007) and Robinson et al (2020). The societal groups involved in each approval aspect are represented as symbols but are also labelled.…”

“…Several variables taken from the literature and included in our conceptual model were refined for clarity and relevance. The definition of stakeholder acceptance in our model was based on the social licence variable in the SAP model which did not differentiate between stakeholders, the general public or local community (Bice et al, 2017;Robinson et al, 2020). However, socio-political and community acceptance variables from Wüstenhagen et al (2007) were discretely defined in our model, as public and community acceptance, respectively (see Figure 1 and Table 1).…”