My essay on the “Asian Cities” was published in the Sage Encyclopedia of Urban Studies (pp 41-44) in 2010.  The Encyclopedia is edited by Ray Hutchison (University of Wisconsin Green Bay) and is available in hard copy and on-line .  The ISBN: 9781412914321.

“The international student experience in Australia” has been published in the Proceedings of AUQF2009: Internal & External Quality Assurance: Tensions & Synergies, AUQA Occasional Paper No 19, 2009, Melbourne, pp 27-35.

“Review of Andrew McGregor’s Southeast Asian Development (Routledge, London and New York, 2008)” is published in Pacific Affairs  Vol 82, No 2, 2009, pp 350-1.  The paper can be found here.

A paper originally published in 1981 has been republished.  The title is ‘Production, Reproduction and Underdevelopment: Petty Commodity Producers in Ujung Pandang, Indonesia’ and it is in a book edited by Jonathan Rigg titled Southeast Asian Development.  The volume is in Routledge’s series on Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences and it was released in 2007.

“Population and urbanization” is a chapter in Understanding Contemporary Asia Pacific, a book edited by Katherine Palmer Kaup (Lynn Rienner, Boulder, 2007, pp 267-294).  The chapter is an overview on population growth, fertility, morbidity and mortality, poverty and inequality, migration, urbanization, the emergence of megacities,  urban environments, world cities, urban mega-projects, and the multimedia supercorridor.

“Managing environments at risk: a challenge for universities and communities” is published in South Australian Policy Online (2007).  This paper was first presented at a seminar at Chaoyang University of Technology in Taichung, Taiwan.  I connected two challenges for Australia - water shortages and carbon emissions - with the work done in universities on environmental problems.

“Ensuring a voice for international students” is also published in South Australian Policy Online (2007).  It explores the challenges of  fostering international student voices in the absence of funding support for the National Liaison Committee for international students.

Cecile Cutler and I authored a chapter on “The global knowledge economy, the university and the Southeast Asian city”.  It was published in a book edited by Wong Tai Chee and Brian Shaw which was entitled Challenging Sustainability: Urban Development and Change in Southeast Asia (Marshall Cavendish Academic, Singapore, 2006, pp 175-196).   

“Creating education cities in the new global knowledge economy” South Australian Policy Online (2005) was a paper presented at a conference on Learning Cities held in Adelaide.

I wrote with Cecile Cutler two annual reviews of developments in Lao PDR: 

“Laos in 2005: 30 years of the Peoples Democratic Republic” Asian Survey, Vol XLVI, No 1, 2006, pp 175-179. 

“Laos in 2004: political stability, economic opening” Asian Survey, Vol XLV, No 1, 2005, pp 161-165.

“Jakarta: globalization, economic crisis and social change” in Josef Gugler (ed) World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, pp 268-296).

BOOKS

Pacific-Asian Cities: Challenges and Prospects, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes (eds) (Built Environment, 27/2, 2001)

Urbanisation in Asia: Lessons Learned and Innovative Responses by Dean Forbes and Michael Lindfield (International Development Issues No 51, AusAID Canberra, 1998)

Asian Metropolis Dean Forbes (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996)

Multiculturalism, Difference and Postmodernism, edited by Gordon Clark, Dean Forbes and Rod Francis (Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1993)

Doi Moi: Vietnam’s Economic Renovation Policy and Performance, edited by Dean Forbes, Terry Hull, David Marr and Brian Brogan (Political and Social Change Monograph No 14, Australian National University, Canberra)

China’s Spatial Economy: Recent Developments and Reforms, edited Godfrey Linge and Dean Forbes (Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1990)

The Socialist Third World: Urban Development and Territorial Planning, edited by Dean Forbes and Nigel Thrift (Blackwells, Oxford, 1987)

The Price of War: Urbanisation in Vietnam, 1954-1985, by Nigel Thrift and Dean Forbes (Allen and Unwin, London, 1986)

Australian Overseas Aid: Future Directions, edited by Phillip Eldridge, Dean Forbes and Doug Porter (Croom Helm, Sydney, 1986)

The Geography of Underdevelopment: A Critical Review Dean Forbes (Croom Helm, London, and Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1984).  An Indonesian translation was published under the title Geografi Keterbelakangan: Sebuah Survei Kritis (Lembaga Penelitian, Pendidikan dan Penerangan Ekonomi dan Sosial, Jakarta, 1986) and a Portuguese edition under the title Uma Visao Critica da Geografia do Desenvolvimento (Bertrand Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 1989).  Routledge are issuing the book as a hardcover facsimile edition in the Routledge Paperbacks Direct program in the (northern) autumn of 2010. 

Uneven Development and the Geographical Transfer of Value, edited with Peter Rimmer (Human Geography Monograph 16, Australian National University, Canberra, 1984)

Petty Commodity Production and Underdevelopment: The Case of Pedlars and Trishaw Riders in Ujung Pandang, Indonesia (Progress in Planning, Pergamon, Oxford, 1981)

THESES

Development and the ‘Informal’ Sector: A Study of Pedlars and Trishaw Riders in Ujung Pandang, Indonesia. PhD Thesis, Monash University, Melbourne, 1979.

Market Participation by Subsistence-based Cultivators: The Koiari of Central Papua, Master of Arts, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1974.

Geographical Aspects of Australia’s Trade with Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia-Singapore.  BA Honours Thesis, Flinders University, Adelaide, 1970