A critical perspective on social license to operate terminology for Canada's most vulnerable mining communities

Collins, Benjamin C.; Kumral, Mustafa

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2020.11.002

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“…However, during the last several decades this has started to change. In Canada, the changes are reflected in increased engagement and involvement in the development of impact and benefit agreements (IBAs), environmental assessments (EAs) and other means of Indigenous community collaboration (Collins and Kumral, 2021 ; Allard and Curran, 2021 ). Indigenous communities in Canada have become increasingly important governance actors due to a combination of factors, including activism and pressure for Indigenous rights and political, legal and constitutional changes.…”

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“…The bulk of the SLO literature does not explicitly address Indigenous people and their specific challenges. Some studies suggest that SLO related activities may change power dynamics in positive ways (e.g., Ritter 2009 ), but others question the long term benefits (e.g., Collins and Kumral, 2021 ). The broader literature on environmental management addresses Indigenous participation in greater depth, including the practice to negotiate agreements between industry and Indigenous communities.…”

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To Approve or not to Approve? A Comparative Analysis of State-Company-Indigenous Community Interactions in Mining in Canada and Sweden

Beland Lindahl,

Wilson,

Allard

et al. 2024

Environmental Management

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This Special Section explores the interplay between Indigenous peoples, industry, and the state in five proposed and active mining projects in Canada and Sweden. The overall aim is to identify factors shaping the quality of Indigenous community-industry-state interactions in mining and mine development. An ambition underlying the research is to develop knowledge to help manage mining related land-use conflicts in Sweden by drawing on Canadian comparisons and experience. This paper synthesizes the comparative research that has been conducted across jurisdictions in three Canadian provinces and Sweden. It focuses on the interplay between the properties of the governance system, the quality of interaction and governance outcomes. We combine institutional and interactive governance theory and use the concept of governability to assess how and why specific outcomes, such as mutually beneficial interaction, collaboration, or opposition, occurred. The analysis suggests there are measures that can be taken by the Swedish Government to improve the governability of mining related issues, by developing alternative, and more effective, avenues to recognize, and protect, Sámi rights and culture, to broaden the scope and increase the legitimacy and transparency of the EIAs, to raise the quality of interaction and consultation, and to develop tools to actively stimulate and support collaboration and partnerships on equal terms. Generally, we argue that Indigenous community responses to mining must be understood within a larger framework of Indigenous self-determination, in particular the communities’ own assessments of their opportunities to achieve their long-term objectives using alternative governing modes and types of interactions.

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confidence: 99%