In this new blogpost for the ISS Development Dialogue 2018, PhD reseracher Alberto Diantini talks about how oil companies are coming to realise that they need a ‘Social Licence to Operate’—the acceptance of locals—to reduce social risk associated with their activities and to then achieve this community acceptance, especially in areas of the Amazon forest inhabited by indigenous peoples.
Alberto Diantini's blogpost talks about the ‘Social Licence to Operate’ focussed around his research which aims to critically analyse the usability of the SLO concept as indicator of community acceptability in Latin America.
In particular, the focuses is on the oil context of Block 10, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, managed by the Italian company Eni-Agip. The area is inhabited by indigenous groups, which are mostly Kichwa. Eni-Agip’s good reputation at the national level, its community investments (medical assistance and education programmes), and the apparent low level of conflicts in the block could suggest that the company has obtained an SLO from the locals. Diantini further tries to examine if thats the case.
Read the full post - Social acceptance of oil activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon: a long way to go
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