A balancing act: The role of benefits, impacts and confidence in governance in predicting acceptance of mining in Australia

Zhang, Airong; Moffat, Kieren

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2015.01.001

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“…In the same study outlined above, Zhang et al (2015) found that procedural fairness drove social acceptance across all three cultural contexts. This was also found to be the case in a local, surveybased study on the social licence held by a CSG company in Queensland, Australia , indicating the centrality of perceptions of fairness across local, national, and cultural contexts.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…Diverse methods have been used in past research on community perceptions in the context of resource extraction or management; quantitative surveys are a common approach at both local and national levels (e.g., Ross et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2015). Although a smaller, qualitative approach was appropriate for exploring the perceptions of practitioners where the sample pool was relatively small, a survey was decided to be appropriate for this section of the study for two reasons.…”

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gillespie, Bond, Downs, and Staggs (2016), in a study of the Queensland coal seam gas (CSG) industry involving 145 interviews and 561 surveys with stakeholders, stated that " [stakeholder] trust is pivotal to the social licence to operate" (p. 1). Similarly, in large-scale studies on SLO focusing on the acceptance of mining at national levels across Australia, Chile, and China, Zhang et al (2015) found trust, in every country, to be a critical driver of social acceptance.…”

Section: Trustmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Various factors have been highlighted in recent studies as being central to the development and maintenance of a social licence or perceptions of 'social acceptance' -a proxy often used to represent social licence in empirical research (e.g., Zhang et al, 2015).…”

Section: Gaining a Social Licencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research has found that this social acceptance is based on factors such as trust, perceived impacts, governance, legitimacy, and fairness (among others) (e.g., Parsons, Lacey, & Moffat, 2014;Zhang et al, 2015). These factors are inherently relational and are likely to be developed and perceived based on the interactions at that crucial company-community interface.…”

Section: Social Licence To Operate and Dialoguementioning

confidence: 99%

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The role of dialogue in social licence to operate in the extractives sector

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This thesis explores the multifaceted role of dialogue in the context of social licence to operate (SLO) in the extractives sector (including mining and gas extraction). SLO is a concept that describes the ongoing and dynamic social acceptance of a resource development by local communities and other stakeholders who have the power to influence company operations. There has been discourse by extractives companies and in academia about the importance of 'meaningful dialogue' as one form of engagement that contributes to developing and maintaining a social licence. The relationship between dialogue and SLO, however, has undergone relatively little explicit, in-depth examination. I use a mixed methods approach to address this gap by exploring the role of dialogue in social licence from three standpoints: (a) a theoretical perspective, drawing on literature from multiple disciplines; (b) stakeholder engagement practitioner perspectives using qualitative, semi-structured interviews; and (c) perceptions of residents in Australian mining communities through a quantitative, social psychological survey.Through this body of work, I make five contributions to the SLO field of knowledge. The first is an interdisciplinary conceptual framework considering the role of dialogue in SLO. The second is a coherent understanding of dialogue and potential outcomes from dialogue specific to SLO. The third is a reconceptualisation of two core factors that have previously been established as central to SLO: trust and procedural fairness, bringing conceptual depth to an under-theorised field.The fourth is an analysis of how dialogue can potentially reinforce the illegitimate power asymmetries it may seek to redress with implications for stakeholder identification and engagement processes. The fifth is a model establishing empirical relationships between community members' experiences of dialogue and other factors central to SLO including company-community relationship, perceptions of procedural fairness, company-community trust, and social acceptance.I argue, based on these theoretical and empirical findings, that dialogue has a critical but complex role to play in the processes of social licence engagement. I discuss each set of results in relation to the SLO literature. Implications for theory are highlighted, pointing to areas of future research that might usefully build on current findings. Implications for industry also are drawn to propose evidence-based considerations for the design, implementation, and evaluation of current and future engagement strategies used by companies to engage stakeholders in meaningful dialogue in attempts to establish and maintain a social licence.3

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Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

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Section: Gaining a Social Licencementioning

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Section: Social Licence To Operate and Dialoguementioning

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Social and Ethical Dimensions of BECCS

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Mabon

Mander

2018

Biomass Energy With Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS): Unlocking Negative Emissions

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Impact mitigation or ecological restoration? Examining the environmental sustainability practices of multinational mining companies

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Eweje

2020

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This paper examines the environmental sustainability practices of multinational mining companies in addressing their impacts and promoting the sustainable development of local communities in Ghana. Although large‐scale mining companies have embraced environmental sustainability, the drivers and the mechanisms for addressing their impacts throughout the mine life cycle is not fully understood because of the limited research in this area. The focus in this study involves an examination of the drivers for environmental sustainability in a weak and non‐enabling institutional context and the mechanisms for addressing impacts on biodiversity, water quality and quantity, and ambient climate. The findings show that the environmental sustainability practices of multinational mining companies are determined by regulatory compliance and corporate environmental responsibility based on perceived ethical obligation. Additionally, we find gaps in mine closure planning and rehabilitation because of the limited requirement for biodiversity restoration in the domains of flora repopulation and active fauna reintroduction. This paper provides empirical and theoretical insights for academics and practitioners in industry and policymaking.

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A balancing act: The role of benefits, impacts and confidence in governance in predicting acceptance of mining in Australia

Cited by 68 publications

References 36 publications

The role of dialogue in social licence to operate in the extractives sector

The role of dialogue in social licence to operate in the extractives sector

Social and Ethical Dimensions of BECCS

Impact mitigation or ecological restoration? Examining the environmental sustainability practices of multinational mining companies

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