Sara Bice
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4379316 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sara Bice |
| NOMBRES | Sara |
| APELLIDO | Bice |
| FIRMA | BICE S |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2871-6636 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
From pixels to people
Satellite Earth observations from space are transforming the way governments, civil society, and industry respond to planetary sustainability challenges. Yet, these technologies also generate new governance challenges, in space and on Earth. Viewing satellite infrastructure as a relational data assemblage involving a politics of resource use and material impacts, we draw on social impact assessment scholarship and practice to map the social footp…
Avoiding harm or creating benefit? How a risk focus sidelines social considerations in early decisions for Australian infrastructure projects
There is a growing need to maximise the social benefits achieved from public investment in infrastructure, particularly with the transition to net zero economies. Infrastructure projects around the world contractually define roles and responsibilities for project partners via Project Delivery Models (PDMs). PDMs can underpin social benefit realisation, but the processes used to select them are largely opaque. This paper explores how social consid…
Countering Corporate Power Through Social Control
This paper interrogates the capacity for social control to act as a complement and alternative to the law in controlling corporate harm. Social control can manifest as demands that businesses obtain a social, not just a legal, licence to operate which can provide an avenue for communities to reject or shape company operations. Drawing on parallels with the ambiguities that hinder the criminalization of business conduct, this paper shows how the s…
Playing by the rules? How community actors use experts and evidence to oppose coal seam gas activity in Australia
Evidence-Based Policy Making advocates for greater attention to evidence, and particularly technical evidence and expertise, in developing policy. This pervasive paradigm presents community actors with a conundrum: how to engage in ways that are consistent with the norms and expectations of policy consultation, whilst also representing the nature and nuance of their lived experience? In this paper we explore one response to this conundrum, in whi…
Improving research impact
Background: The gap between research and practical implementation remains a major challenge for policymakers. Research co-creation, involving researchers co-designing and co-producing research with industry, government and civil society, can support improved end user uptake and better research implementation. Aims and objectives: This Practice Paper introduces a process of research co-creation based in implementation science and integrated knowle…
Impact assessment for desirable futures
This contribution to the Special Issue on Impact Assessment for the 21st Century invites readers to consider how recent East Asian developments concerning impact assessment (IA) may shape future IA policy and practice. It discusses the role that IA is playing and will continue to play in the rapid socio-economic development of the East Asian region. This letter surveys the region’s current IA foci from a culturally sensitive lens, paying particul…
The future of impact assessment
This contribution explores key sociological and policy challenges facing impact assessment in the 21st century. In so doing, it identifies three trends that will shape the future of IA theory, policy and practice: a shift from a project-by-project approach to better accommodation of cumulative impacts; increased cross-border policymaking to address shared issues and in recognition of natural resources as planetary resources; and the development o…
Impact assessment for the 21st century – what future
The third decade of the 21st century will be one of \nmilestones and turning points for impact assessment \n(IA). The United States’ globally influential National \nEnvironmental Policy Act (NEPA), which enshrined \nenvironmental assessment (EA) into law, is 50 (see \ne.g. Caldwell 1988). Meanwhile, the United Nation’s \nmuch younger Sustainable Development Goals \n(SDGs) have an agenda to 2030 and the International \nPanel on Climate Change’s 20…
Using collaborative conceptual modelling as a tool for transdisciplinarity
This article provides an appraisal of collaborative conceptual modelling (CCM) as a tool for research translation. First developed by Newell and Proust (2012), CCM draws on the tools and frameworks of systems thinking as a way of addressing transdisciplinary problems. We applied CCM in two separate workshops – one discussing ‘Digital Cities’, and the other on ‘Energy Futures’. The aim was to assess the value and limitations of CCM in an applied s…
Next generation engagement
The global infrastructure sector is thriving. But community opposition to major projects is also rising. Australian examples demonstrate the policy backflips, reputational pitfalls, and financial costs of project delays and cancellations. Failures to engage communities are surprising, given the widespread adoption of community engagement (CE) principles and the increasing professionalization of CE roles. If acceptance of the need for CE in infras…
Public Policy in the 'Asian Century'
This volume explores the defining features, critical approaches, challenges and opportunities for public policy in the ‘Asian Century’. This is the first book to systematically analyse the key institutions and practices that comprise public policy, administration and governance to investigate how they are changing in the context of increasing Asian influence. Its authors argue that the Asian Century holds the potential to generate a paradigm shif…
Defining Asia Capabilities for Australia's Public Service
Twenty‐three years ago, questions posed in this journal asked whether and how the Australian public service was prepared to engage effectively in Asia. More recent meta‐analyses of public policy scholarship suggest that Western policy scholars and administrators continue to pay limited attention to Asian policymaking, despite the rise of Asia in the 21st century. This article contributes a research‐derived Asia capabilities framework for Australi…
Bridging corporate social responsibility and social impact assessment
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social impact assessment (SIA) share foundational values. Yet even where a single corporation espouses CSR and carries out SIA, the two often pass like ships in the night. Drawing upon recent literature and experiences from a decade of applied social research in CSR and SIA in the resources industry, this professional practice paper identifies three key bridging points through which CSR and SIA could be b…
What Gives You a Social Licence? An Exploration of the Social Licence to Operate in the Australian Mining Industry
This article analyses the ways in which major, multinational mining companies operating within Australia understand sustainable development and articulate their “social licence to operate”. The article contributes a novel perspective to ongoing discussions about the social licence by exploring the ways in which leading Australian mining companies define and assert their social licences through sustainable development discourse. A content and disc…
Social impact assessment, social development programmes and social licence to operate
In the past decade, the extractive sector has embraced social responsibility. Despite this, broad-based support for many extractive projects and operations remains elusive. Community opposition to resource projects appears to be increasing, even where compliance-based social impact assessments (SIAs) and generous benefits are in place. In seeking to understand this, the authors explore unintended contradictions in the implementation of regulatory…
Social licence to operate and impact assessment
This article reviews historical and recent developments in the understanding and employment of ‘social licence to operate’ (SLO), particularly as it relates to impact assessment (IA). It canvasses the ways in which concerns about SLO are beginning to overlap with or be incorporated into IA processes. In so doing, the article has two aims. First, it establishes a research agenda for SLO in IA by posing a series of timely, critical questions to ass…
Public Policy Studies and the “Asian Century”
No more sun shades, please
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is often touted as the solution to social and environmental ills associated with Australia’s mining boom. This paper extends prior research concerning mining’s social impacts and related CSR programmes by investigating the emergence of new institutional arrangements in pre-existing rural communities which are now dominated by the mining industry. The paper finds that major Australian mining companies’ increas…
No More Sun Shades, Please
Next generation engagement
The global infrastructure sector is thriving. But community opposition to major projects is also rising. Australian examples demonstrate the policy backflips, reputational pitfalls, and financial costs of project delays and cancellations. Failures to engage communities are surprising, given the widespread adoption of community engagement (CE) principles and the increasing professionalization of CE roles. If acceptance of the need for CE in infras…
No more sun shades, please
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is often touted as the solution to social and environmental ills associated with Australia’s mining boom. This paper extends prior research concerning mining’s social impacts and related CSR programmes by investigating the emergence of new institutional arrangements in pre-existing rural communities which are now dominated by the mining industry. The paper finds that major Australian mining companies’ increas…
Public Policy Studies and the “Asian Century”
Playing by the rules? How community actors use experts and evidence to oppose coal seam gas activity in Australia
Evidence-Based Policy Making advocates for greater attention to evidence, and particularly technical evidence and expertise, in developing policy. This pervasive paradigm presents community actors with a conundrum: how to engage in ways that are consistent with the norms and expectations of policy consultation, whilst also representing the nature and nuance of their lived experience? In this paper we explore one response to this conundrum, in whi…
Improving research impact
Background: The gap between research and practical implementation remains a major challenge for policymakers. Research co-creation, involving researchers co-designing and co-producing research with industry, government and civil society, can support improved end user uptake and better research implementation. Aims and objectives: This Practice Paper introduces a process of research co-creation based in implementation science and integrated knowle…
No More Sun Shades, Please
No more sun shades, please
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is often touted as the solution to social and environmental ills associated with Australia’s mining boom. This paper extends prior research concerning mining’s social impacts and related CSR programmes by investigating the emergence of new institutional arrangements in pre-existing rural communities which are now dominated by the mining industry. The paper finds that major Australian mining companies’ increas…
What Gives You a Social Licence? An Exploration of the Social Licence to Operate in the Australian Mining Industry
This article analyses the ways in which major, multinational mining companies operating within Australia understand sustainable development and articulate their “social licence to operate”. The article contributes a novel perspective to ongoing discussions about the social licence by exploring the ways in which leading Australian mining companies define and assert their social licences through sustainable development discourse. A content and disc…
Social impact assessment, social development programmes and social licence to operate
In the past decade, the extractive sector has embraced social responsibility. Despite this, broad-based support for many extractive projects and operations remains elusive. Community opposition to resource projects appears to be increasing, even where compliance-based social impact assessments (SIAs) and generous benefits are in place. In seeking to understand this, the authors explore unintended contradictions in the implementation of regulatory…
Social licence to operate and impact assessment
This article reviews historical and recent developments in the understanding and employment of ‘social licence to operate’ (SLO), particularly as it relates to impact assessment (IA). It canvasses the ways in which concerns about SLO are beginning to overlap with or be incorporated into IA processes. In so doing, the article has two aims. First, it establishes a research agenda for SLO in IA by posing a series of timely, critical questions to ass…
Public Policy Studies and the “Asian Century”
Bridging corporate social responsibility and social impact assessment
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social impact assessment (SIA) share foundational values. Yet even where a single corporation espouses CSR and carries out SIA, the two often pass like ships in the night. Drawing upon recent literature and experiences from a decade of applied social research in CSR and SIA in the resources industry, this professional practice paper identifies three key bridging points through which CSR and SIA could be b…
Defining Asia Capabilities for Australia's Public Service
Twenty‐three years ago, questions posed in this journal asked whether and how the Australian public service was prepared to engage effectively in Asia. More recent meta‐analyses of public policy scholarship suggest that Western policy scholars and administrators continue to pay limited attention to Asian policymaking, despite the rise of Asia in the 21st century. This article contributes a research‐derived Asia capabilities framework for Australi…
Public Policy in the 'Asian Century'
This volume explores the defining features, critical approaches, challenges and opportunities for public policy in the ‘Asian Century’. This is the first book to systematically analyse the key institutions and practices that comprise public policy, administration and governance to investigate how they are changing in the context of increasing Asian influence. Its authors argue that the Asian Century holds the potential to generate a paradigm shif…
Using collaborative conceptual modelling as a tool for transdisciplinarity
This article provides an appraisal of collaborative conceptual modelling (CCM) as a tool for research translation. First developed by Newell and Proust (2012), CCM draws on the tools and frameworks of systems thinking as a way of addressing transdisciplinary problems. We applied CCM in two separate workshops – one discussing ‘Digital Cities’, and the other on ‘Energy Futures’. The aim was to assess the value and limitations of CCM in an applied s…
Next generation engagement
The global infrastructure sector is thriving. But community opposition to major projects is also rising. Australian examples demonstrate the policy backflips, reputational pitfalls, and financial costs of project delays and cancellations. Failures to engage communities are surprising, given the widespread adoption of community engagement (CE) principles and the increasing professionalization of CE roles. If acceptance of the need for CE in infras…
Impact assessment for desirable futures
This contribution to the Special Issue on Impact Assessment for the 21st Century invites readers to consider how recent East Asian developments concerning impact assessment (IA) may shape future IA policy and practice. It discusses the role that IA is playing and will continue to play in the rapid socio-economic development of the East Asian region. This letter surveys the region’s current IA foci from a culturally sensitive lens, paying particul…
The future of impact assessment
This contribution explores key sociological and policy challenges facing impact assessment in the 21st century. In so doing, it identifies three trends that will shape the future of IA theory, policy and practice: a shift from a project-by-project approach to better accommodation of cumulative impacts; increased cross-border policymaking to address shared issues and in recognition of natural resources as planetary resources; and the development o…
Impact assessment for the 21st century – what future
The third decade of the 21st century will be one of \nmilestones and turning points for impact assessment \n(IA). The United States’ globally influential National \nEnvironmental Policy Act (NEPA), which enshrined \nenvironmental assessment (EA) into law, is 50 (see \ne.g. Caldwell 1988). Meanwhile, the United Nation’s \nmuch younger Sustainable Development Goals \n(SDGs) have an agenda to 2030 and the International \nPanel on Climate Change’s 20…
Playing by the rules? How community actors use experts and evidence to oppose coal seam gas activity in Australia
Evidence-Based Policy Making advocates for greater attention to evidence, and particularly technical evidence and expertise, in developing policy. This pervasive paradigm presents community actors with a conundrum: how to engage in ways that are consistent with the norms and expectations of policy consultation, whilst also representing the nature and nuance of their lived experience? In this paper we explore one response to this conundrum, in whi…
Improving research impact
Background: The gap between research and practical implementation remains a major challenge for policymakers. Research co-creation, involving researchers co-designing and co-producing research with industry, government and civil society, can support improved end user uptake and better research implementation. Aims and objectives: This Practice Paper introduces a process of research co-creation based in implementation science and integrated knowle…
Countering Corporate Power Through Social Control
This paper interrogates the capacity for social control to act as a complement and alternative to the law in controlling corporate harm. Social control can manifest as demands that businesses obtain a social, not just a legal, licence to operate which can provide an avenue for communities to reject or shape company operations. Drawing on parallels with the ambiguities that hinder the criminalization of business conduct, this paper shows how the s…
Avoiding harm or creating benefit? How a risk focus sidelines social considerations in early decisions for Australian infrastructure projects
There is a growing need to maximise the social benefits achieved from public investment in infrastructure, particularly with the transition to net zero economies. Infrastructure projects around the world contractually define roles and responsibilities for project partners via Project Delivery Models (PDMs). PDMs can underpin social benefit realisation, but the processes used to select them are largely opaque. This paper explores how social consid…
From pixels to people
Satellite Earth observations from space are transforming the way governments, civil society, and industry respond to planetary sustainability challenges. Yet, these technologies also generate new governance challenges, in space and on Earth. Viewing satellite infrastructure as a relational data assemblage involving a politics of resource use and material impacts, we draw on social impact assessment scholarship and practice to map the social footp…
Political science (17 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Business (10 obras) · Public relations (10 obras) · Mining and Resource Management (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Engineering (6 obras) · Environmental planning (5 obras)