Credit: Ayushi Kachhara NIWA 2018

Academic publication

The role of relationships in achieving and maintaining a social licence in the New Zealand aquaculture sector

Baines J & Edwards P (2018) Aquaculture 485:140-146

Highlights

The type of relationship between an aquaculture company & community is key to a community granting (or not) a social licence.
Large aquaculture operators can apply small operators’ tactics to develop better relationships between company and community.
These findings have much broader applicability across other primary sectors, including agriculture, horticulture and forestry.

Keywords

Aquaculture; Company-community relationships; New Zealand; Relational and transactional relationships; Social licence

Related projects & activities

Frameworks for achieving and maintaining social licence

We investigated the use of the term ‘social licence’ in Aotearoa New Zealand and what factors influence social licence.

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