Journal title RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
Author/s Alberto Diantini, Sofia Tagliavini
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/2
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 69-89 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rgioa2-2025oa20569
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The article aims to test the use of the interpretative lens of the Social licence to operate (SLO) concept as a tool for analysing the complex dynamics of environmental conflicts. The study area is the Val d’Agri concession in Basilicata, located in Italy’s main oil-producing area. The semi-structured interviews with some local actors made it possible to investigate the key components of the social licence (legitimacy, credibility and trust), highlighting critical issues in the conflictual relationship between the company and the local community, which is conditioned by a very deep territorial link with oil. SLO, in the sense presented in this contribution, can also represent an important field of application outside the industry, where it originated, as within the sphere of competence of local institutions.
Keywords: ; Social licence to operate, legitimacy, credibility, trust, environmental conflicts, oil extraction.
Alberto Diantini, Sofia Tagliavini, Il concetto di Social licence to operate come strumento di analisi dei conflitti ambientali: applicazione al territorio petrolifero della Val d’Agri (Basilicata) in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 2/2025, pp 69-89, DOI: 10.3280/rgioa2-2025oa20569