Social Licence & Planning in Coastal Communities

Explore research project

Overview

This project focuses on the significant challenge of social acceptability for marine aquaculture in Atlantic Canada and beyond. Researchers explore this challenge through several themes and concepts including social licence, occupation health and safety, community-aquaculture dynamics, social carrying capacity, and marine spatial planning. The research aims to contribute to the debates on marine aquaculture and its place in coastal communities in Atlantic Canada.

Lead researcher(s)

Lucia Fanning

Dalhousie University

Charles Mather

Memorial University

Bringing together researchers, industry and government to solve complex ocean challenges

Halifax Office

Dalhousie University
Steele Ocean Sciences Building
6375 Edzell Castle Circle
P.O. Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Canada
1.902.494.8823

St. John's Office

Memorial University
Core Science Facility
45 Arctic Avenue
Room CSF 5310
St. John's, NL A1C 5S7
Canada
1.709.864.3773

Dalhousie University operates in the unceded territories of the Mi’kmaw, Wolastoqey, and Peskotomuhkati Peoples. These sovereign nations hold inherent rights as the original peoples of these lands, and we each carry collective obligations under the Peace and Friendship Treaties. Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 recognizes and affirms Aboriginal and Treaty rights in Canada.

We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.