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Dr

Janet Stanley

Principal Research Fellow-Urban Social Resilience
Architecture, Building And Planning
social sciences
science & technology
business & economics
economics
technology
transportation
social exclusion
mobility
happiness
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Dr

Janet Stanley

 
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Architecture, Building And Planning
 
Primary Interest
Climate change
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Janet Stanley is a Principal Research Fellow - Urban Social Resilience at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, visiting Professor at the University of Hiroshima, Japan, and a Director of Stanley & Co., consultants in sustainable policy. Prior to this, Janet was Chief Research Officer at Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University.

Originally specialising in child protection and family violence, Janet now focuses on the interface between social, environmental and economic issues in climate change and sustainability, across policy, system design, and at community levels. This work particularly focuses on people experiencing social exclusion and disadvantage. Research fields include transport, land use, the 20 minute city, and urban planning, social policy and climate change, ecosystem services, and the prevention of bushfire arson. Janet has been an advisor to state and federal governments, is on the Board of charitable trust the Mornington Peninsula Foundation, and is a member of other Advisory Committees.

Projects

Displaying the 9 most recent projects by Janet Stanley.

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Healthy City for Adolescents Program Monitoring & Evaluation Framework Development

2019 - 2019
Completed
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Healthy City for Adolescents Program Monitoring & Evaluation Framework Development

2019 - 2019
Completed
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Healthy City for Adolescents Program Monitoring & Evaluation Framework Development

2019 - 2019
Completed
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Healthy City for Adolescents Program Monitoring & Evaluation Framework Development

2019 - 2019
Completed
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Healthy City for Adolescents Program Monitoring & Evaluation Framework Development

2019 - 2020
Completed
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Licence Deed Fire Incident Reports CFA/UoM

2018
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Integrated Urban Planning for Natural Hazard Mitigation

2017 - 2020
Completed
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Building an integrated system for Australian bushfire prevention

This project aims to develop a comprehensive approach to prevent arson. Bushfires are a serious issue in Australia, made worse by climate ch..

2016 - 2020
Completed
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Building an integrated system for Australian bushfire prevention

This project aims to develop a comprehensive approach to prevent arson. Bushfires are a serious issue in Australia, made worse by climate ch..

2016 - 2020
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

7

Research Contracts

2

Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Janet Stanley.

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Feeling the heat: International perspectives on the prevention of wildfire ignition

Janet Stanley, Alan March, James Ogloff, Jason Thompson

Book  |  2020

This book reviews current international knowledge and presents new findings on political, spatial, psychological, socio-ecological..

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Urban planning capabilities for bushfire: treatment categories and scenario testing

Alan March, Graeme Riddell, Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes, Janet Stanley, Hedwig van Delden, Ruth Beilin, Stephen Dovers, Holger Maier

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

The challenges facing settlements relating to bushfire require integrated approaches that manage risks across a wide range of fact..

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What can Australia’s pandemic response teach us about bushfire recovery?

Janet Stanley

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

WHAT CAN AUSTRALIA’S PANDEMIC RESPONSE TEACH US ABOUT BUSHFIRE RECOVERY? While Australia’s state and federal governments responded..

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Social exclusion: the roles of mobility and bridging social capital in regional Australia

Janet Stanley, John Stanley, David A Hensher, C Balbontin

Book Chapter  |  2020

Mobility is a fundamental requirement for well-functioning regions and for socially included residents. The chapter first examines..

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Integrating Bushfire Risk Reduction and Statutory Mechanisms in South Australia: Assessment of the Draft Planning and Design Code 2019

Alan March, Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes, Graeme Riddell, Stephen Dovers, Janet Stanley, Hedwig Van Delden, Ruth Beilin, Holger Maier

Report  |  2020

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How a Failure in Social Justice Is Leading to Higher Risks of Bushfire Events

Janet Stanley

Book Chapter  |  2020

Bushfires are one of the more frightening and potentially damaging extreme events, and their frequency and severity is increasing...

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Dimensions of risk justice and resilience: mapping urban planning's role between individual versus collective rights

alan March, Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes, janet Stanley

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter applies a justice framework to the complex of dilemmas between individual rights and the public good. It uses the cas..

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Preventing rural arson

Janet Stanley

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter reports on new research which overviews vulnerability to arson in terms of geographical location, temporal factors an..

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Integrated Urban Planning for Natural Hazard Mitigation: Including Risk Scenario Assessments for Bushfire Risk in Urban Edge Expansion Processes in Victoria

Alan March, Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes, Graeme Riddell, Stephen Dovers, Janet Stanley, Hedwig Van Delden, Ruth Beilin, Holger Maier

Report  |  2020

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Social assessment of transport projects in Global South cities using community perceptions of needs

Janet Stanley

Book Chapter  |  2019

Karen Lucas, Nihan Akyelken and Janet Stanley put forward the livelihoods approach as a method for assessing the social impacts of..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Urban and Regional Planning
Expanding Knowledge
Psychology
Climate and Climate Change
Policy and Administration
Ground Transport
Sociology
Public Health and Health Services
Health and Support Services
Other Studies in Human Society

News

Displaying the 8 most recent news articles by Janet Stanley.

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Open COVID 'cold spots' first: a way out of lockdown for Melbourne

Janet Stanley

September 2, 2020
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How can we open up Melbourne while tackling disadvantage?

Janet Stanley

September 1, 2020
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What can Australia’s pandemic response teach us about bushfire recovery?

Janet Stanley

May 26, 2020
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Humans light 85% of bushfires, and we do virtually nothing to stop it

Janet Stanley

November 18, 2019
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Mr Morrison, I lost my home to bushfire. Your thoughts and prayers are not enough

Janet Stanley

November 12, 2019
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Black Saturday: Urban sprawl and climate change remain key dangers

Alan March, Janet Stanley

February 5, 2019
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Black Saturday: Bushfire planning as our population grows

Alan March, Janet Stanley

February 4, 2019
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Competitive tendering hasn't delivered for public transport, so why reward poor performance?

Janet Stanley

October 9, 2017

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Credentials

Positions

Positions

Principal Research Fellow-Urban Social Resilience

Architecture, Building And Planning

Education

Education

Master of Social Work

Monash University

B Commerce

University of Melbourne

Social Work

University of Melbourne

PhD

Monash University

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