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Lisa de Kleyn

(she/her)
Research Fellow, Climate Change Adaptation Lab, La Trobe University

Lisa de Kleyn is a Research Fellow at La Trobe University in the Climate Change Adaptation Lab. She is a human geographer whose research areas include justice, governance, and environmental representations. Lisa's research focusses on climate change adaptation, urban nature, housing energy efficiency, and water.

Experience

  • –present
    Researcher, Sessional Lecturer in Social Sciences, Environment and Planning, RMIT University

Education

  • 2020 
    RMIT University, PhD, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies
  • 2013 
    RMIT University, Master of Social Science (Environment and Planning)

Publications

  • 2023
    Bush, J., Coffey, B., de Kleyn, L., (2023), ‘Urban greening beyond the major cities: insights from the ‘Naturally Cooler Towns’ initiative in Victoria’s Goulburn Murray region’, Australian Planner, https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2023.2176527,
  • 2020
    Porter, L., Spark, C. and de Kleyn, L., (2020), 'Navigating the neighbourhood: gender, place and agency in children’s mobility', Children’s Geographies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2020.1787950,
  • 2020
    Coffey, B., Bush, J., Mumaw, L., de Kleyn, L., Furlong, C. and Cretney, R., (2020), ‘Towards good governance of urban greening: Insights from four initiatives in Melbourne, Australia’, Australian Geographer, https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2019.1708552,
  • 2019
    de Kleyn, L., Mumaw, L. and Corney, H., (2019), ‘From green spaces to vital places: Connection and expression in urban greening’, Australian Geographer, https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2019.1686195 ,
  • 2018
    Spark, C., Porter, L. and de Kleyn, L., (2018), ‘“We’re not very good at soccer”: gender, space and competence in a Victorian primary school’, Children's Geographies, 17:2, pp. 190-203 ,
  • 2017
    Kennedy, A., de Kleyn, L. and Ryan, M., (2017), ‘Theories of environmental justice’, in Environmental Justice and Land Use Conflict. The governance of mineral and gas resource development, Kennedy, A., Routledge, Oxon ,
  • 2016
    Steele, W., de Kleyn, L. and Samson, K., (2016), ‘Post-Petroleum Urban Justice’, in Planning After Petroleum. Preparing Cities for the Age Beyond Oil, edited by Dodson, J., Sipe, N., and Nelson, A., Routledge, Oxon,