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Extractive industries: ensuring a cultural license to operate
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Communities
Description
- Negative stereotypes about the extractive industries constitute a cultural risk for operations, damage good-doers, and discourage other companies from imitating them.
- The pursuit of a social license to operate does not address such cultural risk while that of a cultural license to operate does.
- To achieve the latter, a broad set of instruments are available from the creative industries.
- Business associations, ministries of mining and energy, bilateral cooperation agencies and trade representatives can help with the pursuit of a cultural license to operate.
- Obtaining it does not release extractive companies from upholding international social and environmental standards.
Publication Details
Access Rights Type:
open
Publication place:
Adelaide
Post date:
25 Aug 2017
