What is it about?
This paper looks at how differing worldviews inform the views of parties to resource development conflicts. The paper demonstrates that there is a correlation between how people look at the world around them and how these views inform their acceptance or not of resource development.
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Why is it important?
The paper demonstrates that a few worldview questions may be sufficient to determine how stakeholders are likely to react to a development proposal. More interestingly, the paper demonstrates that a person's position on resource development, held at the conscious level, may be quite different from their view at the lower level of worldview.
Perspectives
The paper, and the PhD dissertation from which it was derived, was born out of an incident in which opponents to a proposed exploration program kidnapped and held hostage the company's geologists. The research was motivated by a nasty personal experience and may have real world consequences.
Murray Lytle
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This page is a summary of: Resource development conflict: a quantitative approach, Annals in Social Responsibility, July 2017, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/asr-12-2016-0014.
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