Understanding the social licence to operate of mining at the national scale: a comparative study of Australia, China and Chile

摘要: Abstract Obtaining and maintaining a social licence to operate is major challenge for the mining industry around world. This study examines how public's perceptions of distributional fairness benefits mining, procedural in interactions between society, confidence governance arrangements surrounding affect trust and, turn, their acceptance activities at national scale. The aim this was also understand contexts which companies influence attitudes toward mining. To end, large-scale surveys were conducted Australia (N = 5121), China (N = 5122), Chile (N = 1598). results reveal that key predictors found be relatively low across all three countries. In addition, fairness, both directly indirectly, by influencing level public industry. findings each these elements predicted varying degrees suggests different are variously important accepting own contextual landscapes, highlighting highly context dependent. further suggest order achieve more socially sustainable where conflict operations minimised able experience resource development, governments may need review methods engaging with citizens build those stakeholder relationships.