Dean Forbes

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International)

Professor

Asia-Pacific Cities; Knowledge Economy; Universities

Contact Details Office: Room 203 Registry Postal: Office of the Vice-Chancellor, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia Email: dean.forbes@flinders.edu.au Phone: 61 8 8201 5462 Fax: 61 8 8201 3988

Qualifications

• BA (Flin), MA (UPNG), PhD (Monash), FASSA

Positions Held

• Appointed Professor in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management at Flinders University in 1992, and served as Head of School from 1992-1997. Prior to that held appointments at the Australian National University, Monash University and the University of Papua New Guinea.
• In 1997 appointed Chair of the Flinders University International Board, and in March 2000 appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) at Flinders.
• Vice President of the Flinders Alumni Association, and on a number of management committees and boards including Education Adelaide, Community for Global Communications Inc. and the National Institute of Labour Studies.

Current Teaching

• I jointly teach a Masters topic on Urban Environmental Management (ENVS9001)
• Research Project (independent study) (ENVS 9100/9100A/9100B)
  

Research Areas

• Cities, Universities and the Global Knowledge Economy
• Urban slum upgrading and urban governance in Southeast Asia

Consultancy Capabilities

• Consultancies undertaken for the governments of Australia (AusAID), the Northern Territory, and Papua New Guinea, and for international agencies including the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Population Fund and the International Labour Organisation.
• These projects have involved work in Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Papua New Guinea, Laos and Australia.

Postgraduates

• 'Development of sustainable cultural tourism in an indigenous Indonesian community: A case study of the Baduy of Banten, Western Java'
  -- David Langdon, PhD dissertation.

Selected Publications

Books

• Hamnett, S. and Dean Forbes (eds) 2001 "Pacific-Asian Cities:Challenges and Prospects" Built Environment, Vol 27, No 2, pp 65-155.
• Forbes, Dean and M. Lindfield 1998 Urbanisation in Asia: Lessons Learned and Innovative Responses, International Development Issues No 51, AusAID, Canberra, viii + 120p.
• Forbes, Dean 1996 Asian Metropolis: Urbanisation and the Southeast Asian City, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, xxiv + 120p.

Major Journal Articles and Chapters

• Forbes, Dean 2007 "Population and Urbanization" in Katherine Palmer Kaup (ed.) Understanding Contemporary Asia Pacific, Lynn Rienner Publishers, Boulder, pp. 267-294.
• Forbes, Dean 2007 "A Better Future tomorrow", Campus Review, vol. 17, no. 47, p. 10.
• Forbes, Dean 2007 "Managing environments at risk: a challenge for universities and communities", South Australian Policy Online, www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub8103.html
• Forbes, Dean 2007 "Ensuring a voice for international students", South Australian Policy Online, www.sapo.org.au/opin/opin7883.html
• Forbes, Dean 2006 "An added burden", Campus Review, vol. 16, no. 38, pp. 8-9.
• Forbes, Dean 2006 "Review of Savage and Tan-Mullins, The Naga Revisited", Pacific Affairs, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. 674-675.
• Forbes, Dean and Cutler, Cecile 2006 "Laos in 2005: 30 years of the People's Democratic Republic" in Asian Survey, vol. xlvi, no. 1, pp. 175-179.
• Forbes, Dean and Cutler, Cecile 2006 "The global knowledge economy, the university and the Southeast Asian city" in Challenging Sustainability: Urban Development and Change in Southeast Asia, Wong Tai-chee, Brian J. Shaw and Goh Kim Chuan (eds), Marshall Cavendish Academic, Singapore, pp. 175-196.
• Forbes, Dean 2005 "Creating education cities in the new global knowledge economy", South Australian Policy Online, www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub3441.html
• Forbes, Dean and Cutler, Cecile 2005 "Laos in 2004: political stability, economic opening" in Asian Survey, vol. xlv, no. 1, pp. 161-165.
• Forbes, Dean 2004 "Jakarta: globalization, economic crisis and social change" in J. Gugler (ed) World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 268-296.
• Forbes, Dean 2003 "The Asian Pacific community in the 'Pacific century'" in The Far East and Australasia 2004, 34th edition, Europa Publications, London, pp. 35-43. (Annually updated 1989-2003).
• Forbest, Dean 2002 "Jakarta" in M. Ember and C. Ember (eds) Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures, Grolier, Connecticut, vol. 2, pp. 410-418.
• Forbes, Dean 2001 "Tianjin" in L. Beckel (ed) Megacities: The European Space Agency's Contribution to a Better Understanding of a Global Challenge, Geospace Verlag, Salzburg, pp 184-187.
• Forbes, Dean and Cecile Cutler 2001 "Karachi" in L. Beckel (ed) Megacities: The European Space Agency's Contribution to a Better Understanding of a Global Challenge, Geospace Verlag, Salzburg, pp 144-149.
• Forbes, Dean 2001 "Socio-economic change and the planning of Hanoi" Built Environment, vol. 27, no 2., pp. 68-84.
• Forbes, Dean and C. Cutler 2000 "Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia" in T.R. Leinbach and R. Ulack (eds) Southeast Asia: Diversity and Development, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, pp. 508-549.
• Forbes, Dean 2000 "Reading texts and writing geography" in I. Hay (ed) Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp.