Social licence and aquaculture: Towards a research agenda

Social licence is a concept and practice that emerged in the mining sector to improve community industry relations, but is now spreading to other sectors including aquaculture. This paper examines the gap between recent research on aquaculture and social licence, and a large and complex body of scholarship on social licence in mining and other resource intensive industries. This gap provides the basis for a research agenda for social licence in aquaculture that engages with critical debates in mining, while being sensitive to the sectoral differences between mining and aquaculture.