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Title: Defending the social licence of farming : issues, challenges and new directions for agriculture / editors: Jacqueline Williams and Paul Martin.
Author: Williams, Jacqueline. ; Martin, Paul V. ; Williams, Jacqueline. ; Martin, Paul V. ; Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures (Australia) ; CSIRO. ; Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures (Australia) ; CSIRO.
Publisher: Collingwood, Vic. : Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2011.
Year: 2011.
Series: ERA Collection ; ERA Collection
Description: xiv, 206 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject: Agriculture and state. ; Sustainable agriculture. ; Agriculture - Environmental aspects. ; Agriculture - Social aspects. ; Agriculture and state. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
Notes: At foot of title page: Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online access restricted to licenced organisations.
ISBN/ISSN: 9780643101593 (pbk.);
Type: Book
Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Scene setting -- 1.What is meant by the social licence? / Mark Shepheard -- 2.Understanding the social obligations of farmers / Claudia Baldwin -- 3.The role of virtue in natural resource management / Mark Shepheard -- Experience of farmers -- 4.Organic poetic licence: consumer moral norms driving farming systems / Andrew Monk -- 5.Triple bottom line reporting in the irrigation sector / Christopher Stone -- 6.Social licence issues in developing economies / Michael Jeffery -- 7.Retaining the social licence: the Australian cotton industry case study / Guy Roth -- 8.Farmers heal the land: a social licence for agriculture in Iceland / Andres Arnalds -- 9.American agriculture's social licence to operate / Amanda Kennedy -- 10.Soil conservation in Europe / Jacqueline Williams -- Legal and institutional aspects -- 11.Social licence and international law: the case of the European Union / Jurgen Brohmer -- Contents note continued: 12.The state of social impact indicators: measurement without meaning? / Paul Martin -- 13.The business judgement rule and voluntary reporting / Paul Martin -- 14.The duty of care: an ethical basis for sustainable natural resource management in farming? / Mark Shepheard -- 15.Co-management as a social licence initiative / Vikki Uhlmann -- 16.A conceptual framework for sustainable agriculture / Jacqueline Williams -- Future directions -- 17.Renegotiating farmers' social licence / Jacqueline Williams.

The authors document the definition of and issues associated with the 'social licence to farm'. Authors from University of New England, Australia.
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