Voice, agency and citizen surveysIFC Sustainability Exchange

Kieren Moffat, May 2015

Local level community sentimentDescriptive statistics tell two stories

1. Impacts negative (and increasingly so across time)2. Acceptance/approval of operation increased across time

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Social infrastructure impacts

Acceptance Approval2.50

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Acceptance/approval of operation

Path analysis: Causation & the dual narrative

.12 Contact Quantity

Contact Quality

Procedural Fairness

Social infrastructure

impacts

Trust Acceptance/ Approval

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.05

.44-.20

-.08

.40

.07

.76

N = 123

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.30

.35

National citizen attitude research

Search: “attitudes to mining”Contact: Kieren.Moffat@csiro.au

Impacts of mining

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Australian data