What is it about?
The first case study looks at how Impact Benefit Agreements often result in an unequal degree of social license which can cause future problems. The second case study examines social license at the level of worldview and demonstrates that, in this case, the lack of social license at the conscious level of surveyed residents did not reflect the social license the same residents felt at the deeper level of worldview. Possible explanations for this phenomena are offered.
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Why is it important?
Not all is as it seems and the concept of social license is fraught with problems due to the changes in social power within and without the community whose social license is being sought.
Perspectives
The case studies included an Inuit community in northern Canada and an agricultural community in northern Peru. The lessons learned from the two situations are, in some respects, remarkably similar and combining the research into a single paper was a very interesting journey of discovery.
Murray Lytle
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This page is a summary of: Social licence: power imbalances and levels of consciousness – two case studies, International Journal of Mining Reclamation and Environment, December 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17480930.2018.1530582.
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