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Science and social license: defining environmental sustainability of Atlantic salmon aquaculture in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia
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posted on 2023-05-18, 02:53 authored by Peat Leith, Emily OgierEmily Ogier, Marcus HawardMarcus HawardSocial license reflects environmental and social change, and sees community as an important stakeholder and partner. Science, scientists, and science policy have a key role in the processes that generate social license. In this paper, we focus on the interaction between science and social license in salmon aquaculture in south-eastern Tasmania. This research suggests that social license will be supported by distributed and credible knowledge co-production. Drawing on qualitative, interpretive social research we argue that targeted science, instilled by appropriate science policy, can underpin social license by supporting emerging, distributed, and pluralistic knowledge production. Where social license is important and environmental contexts are complex, such knowledge production might support environmental governance, and so improve outcomes in coastal zone management and beyond.
Funding
CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation
History
Publication title
Social EpistemologyVolume
28Issue
3-4Pagination
277-296ISSN
0269-1728Department/School
Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA)Publisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
United KingdomRights statement
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