Social licencing in mining—between ethical dilemmas and economic risk management

Falck, W. Eberhard

doi:10.1007/s13563-016-0089-0

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“…What makes this exertion extraordinary is the extent (read: intellectual strain) to which consultants and academics have gone to ensure the commercial and scholastic viability of the expression; some providing metrics (Boutilier and Thomson, 2011;Moffat and Zhang, 2014), some with definitional character (Wilburn and Wilburn, 2011;Prno and Slocombe, 2012;Moffat et al, 2015), and others with the elevated status of a pseudo-permitting instrument (Gunningham et al, 2004;Brueckner et al, 2014;Tarras-Wahlberg, 2014;Eberhard Falck, 2016). This is supported by an exponential growth in social policies, standards and guidelines in the global mining industry, many of which use, or indirectly refer to the term 'social license'.…”

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Social license and the fear of Mineras Interruptus

Owen

2016

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Social license and the fear of Mineras Interruptus

Owen

2016

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“…It is telling that none of these challenges are likely to be resolved through less engagement with affected communities, stakeholders, diverse scientists, institutional bodies and multiple societies. Achieving an ethical mandate to progress assisted ecosystem research in the GBR and elsewhere depends on genuine processes of participation and negotiation that lead the public, Indigenous communities, scientists, resource users and other stakeholders to perceive decision-making processes as fair and oriented toward social responsibility [84][85][86].…”

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Challenges and opportunities for assisted regional ecosystem adaptation: International experience and implications for adaptation research

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Maintaining the functional integrity of ecosystems as climate pressures exceed natural rates of adaptation requires new knowledge and new approaches to governance and management. However, research into management interventions to assist regional ecosystem adaptation has generated both scientific and ethical debate. This paper reviews experience to date in order to identify the challenges and opportunities for assisted regional ecosystem adaptation and reflect on the implications for ongoing adaptation research. The review was informed by a database and structured analysis of some 450 reports, peer-reviewed manuscripts and books on participation theory and experience with novel technology development and assisted ecosystem adaptation. We identified five classes of challenges to adaptation research: 1) scientific conflicts and debates over the “facts”, 2) social challenges, 3) governance challenges, 4) epistemic challenges, and 5) ontological conflicts. We argue that engagement strategies linked to the multiple objectives of adaptation research provide opportunities for ecosystem adaptation.

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“…Under the circumstances applicable to seabed mining, approaches borrowed from terrestrial mining practices would practice civic participation, refer to formal guidance (mining codes), and consider the lifetime of the mine from exploration through its operation to its closure [66]. Such practices treat the societal contexts of mining by advocating a participatory approach to regulation, governance and operational decision-making [67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75]. Thus, good terrestrial mining practices take governance issues into primary focus.…”

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Ethics to Intersect Civic Participation and Formal Guidance

2019

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Sound governance arrangement in socio-ecological systems (human niche) combines different means of sense-making. The sustainability of human niche-building depends on the governability of the social-ecological systems (SES) forming the niche. Experiences from small-scale marine fisheries and seabed mining illustrate how ethical frameworks, civic participation and formalised guidance combine in the context of a “blue economy”. Three lines of inquiries contextualise these experiences driving research questions, such as “what is the function of ethics for governability?” First, complex-adaptive SES are featured to emphasise the sense-making feedback loop in SES. Actors are part of this feedback loop and can use different means of sense-making to guide their actions. Second, the “Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries” and geoethical thinking are featured to highlight the relevance of actor-centric concepts. Third, Kohlberg’s model of “stages of moral adequacy” and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) are used to show how to strengthen actor-centric virtue-ethics. Combining these lines of inquiry leads to the conclusion that ethical frameworks, civic participation and formalised guidance, when put in a mutual context, support governability and multi-actor/level policy-making. Further research could explore how creativity can strengthen civic participation, a feature only sketched here.

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Social licencing in mining—between ethical dilemmas and economic risk management

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

Social license and the fear of Mineras Interruptus

Social license and the fear of Mineras Interruptus

Challenges and opportunities for assisted regional ecosystem adaptation: International experience and implications for adaptation research

Ethics to Intersect Civic Participation and Formal Guidance

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