Abstract 'Social License to Operate'(SLO) is now a key term in natural resource development
vocabulary across the world. Like industries such as mining, forestry and renewable energy …

Aquaculture technologies are developing quickly for land-based or onshore aquaculture.
Recirculated aquaculture systems (RAS) are among a suite of emerging technologies in …

Mining activities can benefit the local economy, although they can also have a negative
impact on society and the local environment. As the negative impacts have engendered an …

Organizations-in free and relatively free market economies-depend on permission to
operate being granted by stakeholders. This often-tacit permission functions as a social …

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) plays a vital role globally in siting waste-to-energy
incineration facilities because of its potentially positive influences on public acceptance of …

To avoid a climate crisis, major industrial economies are being urged to reduce their
dependence on coal-fired power generation. Given decarbonisation pressures, many coal …

Salmon aquaculture production has grown considerably in recent years, and parallel to this
growth public interest in production and product has also increased. In most salmon …

Scotland is currently one of the major aquaculture producers of Atlantic salmon. However,
alongside its rapid growth over the last two decades, advocacy and conservation groups …

The public has a strong resistance to such potential hazardous facilities as nuclear power
plants and waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration due to their potentially negative environment …

The term social licence to operate is often deployed as a rhetorical device without reference
to who grants a social licence or how one might determine whether, or to what extent, such a …