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Prof

Ruth Fincher

Honorary
Geography
social sciences
geography
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
environmental sciences & ecology
environmental studies
melbourne
sea-level rise
policy
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Ruth Fincher

 
Division
Science
 
Primary Interest
Urban planning
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Projects

Displaying the 7 most recent projects by Ruth Fincher.

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GETTING TO YES: OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO AFFORDABLE FAMILY HOUSING IN THE INNER CITY

2012 - 2014
Completed
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GETTING TO YES: OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO AFFORDABLE FAMILY HOUSING IN THE INNER CITY

2012 - 2014
Completed
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Equitable local outcomes in adaptation to sea-level rise

The project clearly falls within the priority goal of responding to climate change and variability in being about responding to sea-level ri..

2010 - 2013
Completed
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Equitable local outcomes in adaptation to sea-level rise

The project clearly falls within the priority goal of responding to climate change and variability in being about responding to sea-level ri..

2010 - 2013
Completed
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TRANSNATIONAL AND TEMPORARY: PLACE-MAKING,STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL MELBOURNE

Fostering a community in a place is place-making. When many residents are temporary and new arrivals, like tertiary students in central Melb..

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URBAN PLACEMAKING; SOCIAL EQUITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY.

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TRANSNATIONAL AND TEMPORARY: PLACE-MAKING,STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL MELBOURNE

Fostering a community in a place is place-making. When many residents are temporary and new arrivals, like tertiary students in central Melb..

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Project Types

4

Research Grant

3

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Ruth Fincher.

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Local values and fairness in climate change adaptation: Insights from marginal rural Australian communities

Sonia Graham, Jon Barnett, Colette Mortreux, Anna Hurlimann, Ruth Fincher

Journal article  |  2018  |  World Development

A key criterion of successful adaptation to climate change is that it avoids potential inequalities arising from climate impacts o..

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Iris Marion Young and urban geographies of difference

Kurt Iveson, Ruth Fincher, Brendan Gleeson

Journal article  |  2018  |  Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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Remembering Graeme Hugo, Population Geographer

Ruth Fincher

Journal article  |  2016  |  Australian Geographer

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Place-making or place-masking? The everyday political economy of "making place"

Ruth Fincher, Maree Pardy, Kate Shaw

Journal article  |  2016  |  Planning Theory & Practice

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Towards fair local outcomes in adaptation to sea-level rise

Sonia Graham, Jon Barnett, Ruth Fincher, Colette Mortreux, Anna Hurlimann

Journal article  |  2015  |  Climatic Change

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Temporalities in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise

Ruth Fincher, Jon Barnett, Sonia Graham

Journal article  |  2015  |  ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS

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A local coastal adaptation pathway

J Barnett, S Graham, C Mortreux, R Fincher, E Waters, A Hurlimann

Journal article  |  2014  |  Nature Climate Change

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Local values for fairer adaptation to sea-level rise: A typology of residents and their lived values in Lakes Entrance, Australia

Sonia Graham, Jon Barnett, Ruth Fincher, Anna Hurlimann, Colette Mortreux

Journal article  |  2014  |  Global Environmental Change - Human and Policy Dimensions

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Planning in the multicultural city: Celebrating diversity or reinforcing difference?

Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner, Valerie Preston

Journal article  |  2014  |  Progress in Planning

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Urban planning and sustainable adaptation to sea-level rise

Anna Hurlimann, Jon Barnett, Ruth Fincher, Nick Osbaldiston, Colette Mortreux, Sonia Graham

Journal article  |  2014  |  LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Human Geography
Urban and Regional Planning
Community Service (excl. Work)
Planning
Heritage
Sociology
Climate and Climate Change
Construction Planning
Expanding Knowledge
Architecture and Urban Environment

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2014

Member of the Order of Australia

2002

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Geography

Honorary

Geography

Member, College Of Experts, Australian Research Council, Sbe Panel (Social, Behavioural And Economic Sciences)

College of Experts, Australian Research Council

Member Of The Committee Of Panel A (Anthropology, Demography, Geography, Linguistics And Sociology Disciplines) Representing Geography

Academy of the Social Sciences

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Clark University

Master of Arts

McMaster University

Bachelor of Arts

University of Melbourne