Ethics and Social Licence in the Blue Economy

Hugh Breakey is Deputy Director and Principal Research Fellow in moral philosophy at Griffith University’s Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law. Hugh has extensive experience in the application of ethical, legal and political philosophy to many challenging practical fields, including institutional governance, integrity systems and marine industries.Charles Sampford was Griffith University’s Foundation Dean of Law (in 1991) and Foundation Director of the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (since 2004). In 2008, for his work on ethics and integrity systems, Charles was recognised by the ARC as one of Australia’s 20 most impactful researchers.

• Part 1: The Social Licence to Operate Introduction: Ethics and Social Licence in the Blue Economy Hugh Breakey, Charles Sampford Chapter 1: Understanding and ethically analysing the Social Licence to Operate Hugh Breakey, Charles Sampford and Graham Wood Chapter 2: Social Licence and Legal Licence: Analysing the analogy Charles Sampford and Melea Lewis Chapter 3: What (if anything) can the concept of ‘freedom’ teach us about SLO? Graham Wood Chapter 4: Four Types of Social Licence to Operate: The ethical and operational risks of Authentic, Deceptive, Default and Tick-Box SLO approaches Hugh Breakey, Graham Wood, Larelle Bossi and Charles Sampford Chapter 5: Moving beyond the Social Licence to Operate: Locating Cultural Licence to Operate within Country Larelle Bossi and Fiona Hamilton Part 2: SLO and ethics in the Blue Economy Chapter 6: Ethical values and SLO in the Blue Economy Hugh Breakey, Rebecca Marshallsay, Larelle Bossi, Charles Sampford and Katja Cooper Chapter 7: Ethical risk in the Blue Economy Integrity System Hugh Breakey and Charles Sampford Chapter 8: Shifting our current marine governance paradigm through ocean ethics and the development of ocean cultures Larelle Bossi Chapter 9: Not just for and against: Engaging with the ethical complexity of stakeholders’ attitudes to offshore wind developments Hugh Breakey, Larelle Bossi, Charles Sampford, Michael Mehmet, Jennifer Algie, Freya Croft and Michelle Voyer Conclusion: Blue Economy and Social Licence Ethical Futures Hugh Breakey and Charles Sampford