Research Publications

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Just Places

The Centre for Just Places undertakes research on place-based disadvantage and innovative place-based policy and practice.

Just Places

What works for place-based approaches? Research report and case studies
- 2022
- Centre for Just Places
Place-based approaches are an innovative way to address disadvantage and inequity, strengthen resilience to crises in place, and build thriving and resilient communities. In 2021-22, the Centre led a consortium of research partners examining literature, evidence and practice to understand what features enable the success of place-based approaches and how to best support them – information essential to improving the wellbeing of Victorian communities into the future.

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Just Places

Collaborative Action Plan for climate justice in Melbourne’s west
- 2022
- Centre for Just Places
This Collaborative Action Plan is the result of a year-long project to articulate a shared vision for climate justice in Melbourne’s west. The Plan builds on the diverse contributions of individuals and organisations already working at the interface of climate change, health and social justice in Melbourne’s west, and seeks to further understand the localised and systemic drivers of climate vulnerabilities for community health and service organisations in Melbourne’s west.

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Just Places

Dropping off the Edge – VicHealth report
- 2022
- Centre for Just Places
VicHealth commissioned the Centre to produce this report which deep dives into locational disadvantage in Victoria, with a greater focus on health and wellbeing inequities.

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Just Places

Climate Justice in Practice
- 2021
- Centre for Just Places
Addressing social inequity and climate resilience through place-based capacity building with community service organisations and local governments. The Centre presented this paper at the State of Australasian Cities Conference 2021.

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Just Places

Health, housing and ecological justice: Climate change and preventing homelessness deaths
- 2021
- Centre for Just Places
This paper explores the health risks to homeless communities posed by increasingly frequent extreme weather caused by climate change.

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Communal disadvantage

Dropping Off the Edge 2021
- 2021
- Andrew Yule, Lain Dare, Marita McCabe, Robert Tanton
Dropping off the Edge 2021 is the fifth instalment in a research series, clearly showing that complex and entrenched disadvantage is experienced by a small but persistent number of locations in each state and territory across Australia. As a society we cannot, and should not, turn away from the challenge of persistent and entrenched locational disadvantage, no matter how difficult it may be to solve the problem.
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