Social licence and aquaculture: Towards a research agenda. (January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mather, Charles; Fanning, Lucia
• Is Part Of: Marine policy. Volume 99(2019)
• Page Start: 275
• Page End: 282
• Publication Date: 2019-01
• Subjects: Social licence -- Aquaculture -- Research agenda; Marine resources -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; Fisheries -- Periodicals; Ressources marines -- Aspect économique -- Périodiques; Pêches -- Périodiques; Fisheries; Marine resources -- Economic aspects; Periodicals; 333.916405
• DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.10.049
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0308-597X

Abstract

Abstract: Social licence is a concept and practice that emerged in the mining sector to improve community industry relations, but is now spreading to other sectors including aquaculture. This paper examines the gap between recent research on aquaculture and social licence, and a large and complex body of scholarship on social licence in mining and other resource intensive industries. This gap provides the basis for a research agenda for social licence in aquaculture that engages with critical debates in mining, while being sensitive to the sectoral differences between mining and aquaculture. Highlights: Social licence is becoming integrated into aquaculture policies, academic research and activist discourse and action. The emerging research on social licence in aquaculture has not considered research on social licence in mining. This paper asks: how is the research on social licence in the mining sector relevant to the aquaculture sector? This paper offers a proposed research agenda for social licence in aquaculture.