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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Social License"”.
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Just Another PR Tactic?: Discourse, Expertise, and Social License in the “License to Farm” Campaign
Social license is the need for, and attempt to, garner and maintain public approval of industry/corporate practices. The License to Farm campaign responds to the public pushback regarding industrial farm practices, and claims to educate the public on Canadian farming. in I analyze the campaign to …
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Integrating Social Concerns Into Regional Renewable Energy Resource Assessments: A Case Study in Rigolet, NL, Canada
… demonstrates a novel approach to integrating social concerns regarding energy development into renewable energy resource assessment. An extensive literature review of the social aspects of energy identifies five perspectives (acceptability, social license, energy justice, community energy, …
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Economic impact of the cruise ship sector in Iceland: The locals’ perception
… local’s perception: economic, environmental, and social impacts of cruise ship tourism in Iceland. As the number of cruise ship arrivals has increased in recent years, especially in small coastal communities. However, questions have emerged if this sector is sustainable. Using structured, …
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Shallow Depths: Reproductions of Nuclear Landscapes and Anomalies of Consent at Chalk River
… legitimacy in order to secure a bare minimum social license to operate. In practice, the willing host model exhibits the hallmarks of a “divide and conquer” strategy, with people in neighbouring communities being pitted against each other as they weigh the very uncertain costs and benefits of …
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Foreign direct investment & indigenization in zimbabwe's platinum sector: is the indigenization and economic empowerment act a deterrent to foreign investors?
… other at an added expense. One to acquire the social license to operate and the other for purposes of attaining indigenization accreditation which is merely state participation.
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Empowering Indigenous Culture Through Benefit Sharing Agreements: Study of Companies and Communities in the Alaskan Arctic
… a legal resource for local communities and a ‘social license’ for companies looking to operate on indigenous land (Wilson, 2016). Previous research on benefit sharing demonstrates that these agreements often lack proactivity, transparency, and perpetuate colonial relations (Tulaeva et al., …
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Regulatory Frameworks and Evaluation Methodologies for the Licensing of Commercial Fusion Reactors
… decades will encounter a variety of technical, social, and economic challenges. These companies will also need to assess and develop appropriate technology regulation. The under-regulation, over-regulation, or mis-regulation of a new technology could jeopardize long-term commercial deployment …
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The future social implications of seaweed cultivation for bioenergy production
… concerning economic feasibility and social implications. Like most industries, seaweed cultivation for bioenergy is likely to be subjected to scrutiny for potential social and environmental impacts. Communities of place and interests, as well as the public, are empowered to …
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A framework for integration of Mining Charter III for inclusive procurement, supplier and enterprise development by mining organisations in Mpumalanga province
… transformation and to protect the "social license to operate. Hence, the aim of this study was "to explore the approaches utilised for inclusive procurement, supplier and enterprise development which conforms to the Mining Charter III by mining organisations in South Africa within …
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Investigating alternative funding sources for community equity ownership in renewable energy projects in South Africa
… goals for which it was constituted. The value of Social License to Operate (SLO) is that it can lay the foundation for positive relations to prevail between communities and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in the pursuit of a viable renewable energy industry and increased energy supply in South …
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Predicting mining company-stakeholder conflict and incorporating social conditions into mining project valuation
… protections.A statistical examination of the social and environmental variables as indicators of company-stakeholder conflict: Prediction of company-stakeholder conflict remains a weak point in mine design and planning. This research statistically examines a database of mining properties and …
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Making Resource Futures: Petroleum and Performance by the Norwegian Barents Sea
This thesis is an ethnographic study of life with oil and gas in Hammerfest, the first petroleum town in Finnmark, and of what role this town plays and is cast as in narratives of petroleum as a driver for development in the larger region. It examines how oil in the Barents region is both disputed …
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Developing a quantitative framework for assessing and reporting mining's contributions to sustainable development
… challenges related to contributions to the SDGs, social license to operate, stakeholder pressure, and becoming greener investments. To do this, sustainability assessment frameworks that capture the spatio-temporal scale of mining operations and that can be applied across different scales is …