‘Social license to operate’: a relevant term in Northern European mining?

Polar Geography

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 194-227

  Koivurova, Timo ^a   Buanes, Arild ^b   Riabova, Larissa ^c   Didyk, Vladimir ^c   Ejdemo, Thomas ^d   Poelzer, Gregory ^d   Taavo, Päivi ^e   Lesser, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^b Northern Research Institute (Norut)   (Norway)

^c Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^d LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS; MINING; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; SOCIAL IMPACT; STAKEHOLDER;

FINLAND; NORWAY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SWEDEN;

EID: 84949529563     PISSN: 1088937X     EISSN: 19390513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1088937X.2015.1056859     Document Type: Article

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