What gives you a social licence? An exploration of the social licence to operate in the australian mining industry

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Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 62-80

  Bice, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mining; Social licence to operate; Sustainability reports; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906775156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/resources3010062     Document Type: Article

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