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dc.contributor.authorKendal, Dave
dc.contributor.authorFord, Rebecca M
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-10T04:35:43Z
dc.date.available2020-02-10T04:35:43Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0888-8892
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cobi.12994
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/391280
dc.description.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 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom493
dc.relation.ispartofpageto495
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalConservation Biology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume32
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiological sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAgricultural, veterinary and food sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode31
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode30
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technology
dc.subject.keywordsLife Sciences & Biomedicine
dc.subject.keywordsBiodiversity Conservation
dc.subject.keywordsEcology
dc.titleThe role of social license in conservation
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKendal, D; Ford, RM, The role of social license in conservation, Conservation Biology, 2018, 32 (2), pp. 493-495
dcterms.dateAccepted2017-07-06
dc.date.updated2020-02-10T04:23:32Z
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFord, Rebecca


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