Understanding the social licence to operate of mining at the national scale: a comparative study of Australia, China and Chile

Zhang, Airong; Moffat, Kieren; Lacey, Justine; Wang, Junxiu; González, Roberto; Uribe, Kathleen; Cui, Lijuan; Dai, Yan

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.07.097

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“…Since coming into use in the late 1990s (Moore, 1996;Cooney, 2017), the concept of SLO has evolved, and is now much discussed in T academia, industry and management circles (Prno, 2013;Boutilier, 2014;Jijelava and Vanclay, 2014a;Moffat and Zhang, 2014;Morrison, 2014;Hall et al, 2015;Moffat et al, 2016;Smits et al, 2017). Although there are various competing models (Zhang et al, 2015(Zhang et al, , 2018Lacey et al, 2017;Wright and Bice, 2017), and notwithstanding that SLO is intended to be a metaphor (Prno and Slocombe, 2012;Bice, 2014;Bice and Moffat, 2014), the basic idea is that SLO is a continuum on which a number of levels can be identified, for example: withheld, when there is no support for the project; acceptance, when local communities are not actively opposed to a project; approval, when local communities view a project positively; and psychological identification, when local communities strongly support and welcome a project (Thomson and Boutilier, 2011;Jijelava and Vanclay, 2017). SLO is often described as being an implicit social contract between a project and its host communities (Bice, 2014;Lacey and Lamont, 2014;Demuijnck and Fasterling, 2016;Lacey et al, 2016).…”

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How a large project was halted by the lack of a social Licence to operate: Testing the applicability of the Thomson and Boutilier model

Jijelava¹,

Vanclay²

2018

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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We explore why having a Social Licence to Operate (SLO) is essential for large projects. We analyse the Khudoni Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Svaneti region of Georgia, which was halted in 2013 after much social protest. We assess why the project lacked a SLO and what lessons can be learnt from this experience. Using the Thomson and Boutilier model of SLO as our analytical framework, we elaborate its key elementslegitimacy, credibility and trustin the context of dam and hydropower projects and assess where the Khudoni project failed. We conclude that the project lacked legitimacy, with local communities not seeing any social justification for the project. The credibility of the project and proponent was weak amongst the local population, and trust was absent at all phases of the project. We conclude that the concept of social licence to operate has the potential to encourage project proponents to consider and implement activities which will lead to better outcomes for all parties. We believe there is a strong business case for companies to take the concept seriously. Improving social performance will assist projects in gaining a social licence to operate and grow.

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How a large project was halted by the lack of a social Licence to operate: Testing the applicability of the Thomson and Boutilier model

Jijelava¹,

Vanclay²

2018

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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“…Tendo em vista os conflitos entre os grupos de interesses envolvendo a LSO, alguns pesquisadores propõem modelos para lidar com as articulações para obtenção da LSO. Entre os fatores que contribuem para a obtenção e/ou manutenção da LSO podem ser destacados: diálogo entre os grupos de interesse (Bahr & Nakagawa, 2017;Mercer-Mapstone et al, 2018), gerenciamento de tensões e riscos (Bice, Brueckner, & Pforr, 2017), atenção aos fatores que influenciam resistência social (Luke, 2017), modelos de LSO para segmentos industriais em expansão no mundo baseados em estruturas já existentes (Smith, Richards, & Colwell, 2017), a confiança como papel central nas negociações (Debrah, Mtegha, & Cawood, 2018;Moffat & Zhang, 2014), utilização de modelos de governança (Prno & Slocombe, 2012) e observação ao conjunto desses fatores que interagem entre si (Zhang et al, 2015).…”

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Licença Social Para Operar E Impactos Ambientais: Uma Revisão De Literatura

Franco

Sampaio

Almeida

2020

RGSA

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Licença Social para Operar (LSO) é uma percepção da comunidade e sua aceitabilidade em relação a uma empresa e suas operações locais. Essa espécie de autorização informal fornecida pela sociedade à empresa tem se mostrado importante, uma vez que ambos saem ganhando: a população local, ao se sentir inserida na empresa e em tomadas decisões, e a empresa, em termos de confiança e aceitação para que esta inicie ou continue com suas atividades. A fim de contribuir para futuros trabalhos e discussões, foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica sistemática com o objetivo de analisar como a literatura tem tratado o tema. A procura pelos trabalhos foi feita nas bases Scopus e Web of Science, sendo aplicados alguns critérios pré-estabelecidos para busca e triagem. Os resultados encontrados mostram que é um tema recente, com a maioria das publicações nos últimos 5 anos, sendo a metodologia de estudo de caso a mais utilizada e sua aplicação voltada, principalmente, para empreendimentos de mineração. A Austrália se destacou tanto como o país de origem das instituições de maior parte dos primeiros autores como dos estudos de caso trabalhados. A literatura retrata que a prática da LSO tem enfrentado desafios, como a distância entre teoria e prática, devido a contextos mutáveis, e o perigo de que a ferramenta seja usada de forma equivocada, não trazendo benefícios à comunidade. Assim, o tema LSO mostra-se emergente nas pesquisas científicas e significativo para os pesquisadores, sendo a revisão sistemática realizada relevante para pesquisas futuras.

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“…As a result, researchers globally have variously discussed the importance of key attributes of SLO, including the role of relationships and dialogue (Mercer-Mapstone et al 2017, Baines and Edwards 2018), trust and engagement (Kelly et al under review) and accountability and fairness (Zhang et al 2015) in seeking to establish greater understanding of how SLO functions. These, along with other SLO attributes have been used or prioritised differently depending on the context, e.g.…”

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Trust, engagement, information and social licence—insights from New Zealand

Edwards

Fleming

Lacey

et al. 2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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This research examines trust at the government, industry, community nexus, as mediated by media, and its effect on social licence. We attempted to understand levels and importance of trust in New Zealand's natural resource sectors by examining ways of building, maintaining and assessing public trust in a post-truth society. We surveyed 128 New Zealand public and held a stakeholder forum about perceptions of trust in relation to natural resource sectors. The results provide indications of novel advances around trust and trustworthiness. Honesty was highlighted as the top influencer of trustworthiness and trust, and dishonesty as the top influencer of distrust. In contrast to other literature, we find a nuanced understanding of trust among respondents in relation to the mediarespondents distrusted actors cited in media more than the media outlet or platform itself. Further, our findings suggest there is no discernible change in trust levels in the post-truth era, in this context.

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Understanding the social licence to operate of mining at the national scale: a comparative study of Australia, China and Chile

Cited by 119 publications

References 37 publications

How a large project was halted by the lack of a social Licence to operate: Testing the applicability of the Thomson and Boutilier model

How a large project was halted by the lack of a social Licence to operate: Testing the applicability of the Thomson and Boutilier model

Licença Social Para Operar E Impactos Ambientais: Uma Revisão De Literatura

Trust, engagement, information and social licence—insights from New Zealand

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