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  • The role of social license in conservation

    Author(s)
    Kendal, Dave
    Ford, Rebecca M
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Ford, Rebecca
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    “Threatened species programs need a social license to justify public funding” (Zander et al. 2014). Or do they? There is growing acceptance within conservation science that community support for and engagement in ecosystem management programs is likely to lead to better conservation outcomes (Marvier & Wong 2012). However, the language used to characterize relations between conservation and the community is important, and use of the term “social license” may not always be a useful way to describe this relationship. Since the mid‐1990s, the term social license has been widely used in the mining sector to describe implicit ...
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    “Threatened species programs need a social license to justify public funding” (Zander et al. 2014). Or do they? There is growing acceptance within conservation science that community support for and engagement in ecosystem management programs is likely to lead to better conservation outcomes (Marvier & Wong 2012). However, the language used to characterize relations between conservation and the community is important, and use of the term “social license” may not always be a useful way to describe this relationship. Since the mid‐1990s, the term social license has been widely used in the mining sector to describe implicit acceptance and approval of a mining operation by the community in which it operates (Lacey & Lamont 2014). Other industries such as forestry, aquaculture, and agriculture have begun using the term in a similar way (Edwards & Trafford 2016; Ford & Williams 2016; Moffat et al. 2016). Now social license is beginning to appear in conservation discourse (e.g., Garnett et al. 2015; Oakes et al. 2015). At the same time, the use of social license in other sectors has been criticized (e.g., Owen & Kemp 2013) because it frames relationships with communities as more singular, binary, and tangible than is feasible or desirable (Parsons & Moffat 2014). The use of social license in conservation needs critical evaluation, particularly given the broad contextual differences between conservation and industries such as mining.
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    Journal Title
    Conservation Biology
    Volume
    32
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12994
    Subject
    Environmental sciences
    Biological sciences
    Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    Biodiversity Conservation
    Ecology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/391280
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