Social licence to operate and impact assessment

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 257-262

  Bice, Sara ^a   Moffat, Kieren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

extractives; impact assessment; mining; social licence to operate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906776909     PISSN: 14615517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2014.950122     Document Type: Editorial

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