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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964518403321

Titolo

Defending the social licence of farming : issues, challenges and new directions for agriculture / / editors, Jacqueline Williams and Paul Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., 2011

ISBN

9786613321244

9780643104556

0643104550

9781283321242

1283321246

9780643104549

0643104542

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WilliamsJacqueline

MartinPaul

Disciplina

338

630

Soggetti

Sustainable agriculture

Agriculture - Environmental aspects

Agriculture - Social aspects

Agriculture and state

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the contributors; Scene Setting; 1 What is meant by the social licence?; 2 Understanding the social obligations of farmers; 3 The role of virtue in natural resource management; EXPERIENCE OF FARMERS; 4 Organic poetic licence: consumer moral norms driving farming systems; 5 Triple bottom line reporting in the irrigation sector; 6 Social licence issues in developing economies; 7 Retaining the social licence: the Australian cotton industry case study; 8 Farmers heal the land: a social licence for agriculture in Iceland

9 American agriculture's social licence to operate10 Soil conservation in



Europe; Legal and Institutional Aspects; 11 Social licence and international law: the case of the European Union; 12 The state of social impact indicators: measurement without meaning?; 13 The business judgement rule and voluntary reporting; 14 The duty of care: an ethical basis for sustainable natural resource management in farming?; 15 Co-management as a social licence initiative; 16 A conceptual framework for sustainable agriculture; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; 17 Renegotiating farmers' social licence; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The authors document the definition of and issues associated with the 'social licence to farm'.