Andrew Beer

Contact Details

Current Teaching

• GEOG 3008 Regional Economic Development

Current and Recent Scholarly Activities

• Post-graduate students:
  Janet Adkins
  David Bunce
  Eleanor Button
  Amity James
  Anthony Marroncelli
  Kristine Peters
• Research into the South Australian Rental Market,
  Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan
• Regional Development Policy in Australia
• Past Editor, Sustaining Regions

Selected Publications

Books
Beer, A. Haughton, G. and Maude, A. 2003 Developing Locally: Lessons in Economic Development from Four Nations, Policy Press, Bristol.

*Beer, A. Maude, A. and Pritchard, B. 2003 Developing Australia’s Regions: Theory and Practice, University of NSW Press, Sydney.

Beer, A. and Maude, A. 2002 Local and Regional Economic Development Agencies in Australia, Local Government Association of South Australia, Adelaide.

*Badcock, B. and Beer, A. 2000 Home Truths: Home Ownership and Housing Wealth in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. 220pp.

Beer, A. and Cutler, C. 1999 Atlas of the Australian People, 1996 Census, South Australia, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Canberra. 163pp.

Beer, A. and Cutler, C. 1999 Housing Needs and Preferences of Immigrants, Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Canberra. 63pp.

Beer, A. Cutler, C. and Faulkner D. 1997 Atlas of the Australian People, 1991 Census, Tasmania, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. 195pp.

Beer, A. and Maude, A. 1997 Effectiveness of State Frameworks for Local Economic Development, Local Government Association of South Australia, Adelaide. 130pp.

Beer, A. and Cutler, C. 1995 Atlas of the Australian People, 1991 Census, South Australia, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. 175pp.

Beer, A. and Maude, A. 1995 Economic and Infrastructure Audit of the Central and Western Murray, Department of Housing and Regional Development, Melbourne. 82pp.

*Beer, A. Bolam, A. and Maude, A. 1994 Beyond The Capitals: Urban Growth in Regional Australia, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. 281pp.

Chapters in Books

Beer, A. and Thomas, H. in press Economic Restructuring, Regional 'Visioning and the Role of Universities: The Outcomes of an Automotive Plant Closure in Southern Adelaide, Australia, in McCann, P. (ed) Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions: Firms, Knowledge, and Policy, Edward Elgar, London.

Beer, A. Delfabbro, P. Natalier, K. Oakley, S. Packer, J and Verity, F. 2006 Homelessness Amongst Young People in Rural Regions of Australia, in I. Cloke, P. and Milbourne, P. International Perspectives in Rural Homelessness, Policy Press, Bristol.

Beer, A. and Maude, A. 2005 Governance and the Performance of Regional Development Agencies in Australia,pp 61-78 in Martin, J. and Eversole, R. Governance and Regions: Australian Perspectives, Ashgate, Basingstoke.

Beer, A. 2000 Regional Policy in Australia: Running out of Solutions? Chapter 10 (pp 169-194) in Pritchard, B. and McManus, P. (ed) Land of Discontent, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

Beer, A. 1999 Fast Forward to the Future? A Vision of Home Ownership and Housing Wealth Next Century? Pp 97 – 110 in Yates, J. and Wulff, M. Australia’s Housing Choices, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane.

Beer, A. 1997 Issues in Private Rental Housing in Non-Metropolitan Areas, pp 92-101 in Maher et al. Australia’s Private Rental Market: Processes and Policies, AHURI, Melbourne.

Beer, A. 1995 Urban Change and Non-Capital Cities, Proceedings of the Better Cities: Urban Change in Action Conference, Parliament House, Canberra, pp 115-19.

Beer, A. 1993 A Dream Won, A Crisis Born? Home Ownership and the Housing Market, pp 147-172 in Paris, C. (ed) Housing Australia, Macmillan, Melbourne.

Articles Published in Refereed Journals

Beer, A. and Thomas, H.A. 2007 The Politics and Policy of Economic Restructuring in Australia: Understanding Government Responses to the Closure of an Automotive Plant, Space and Polity, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 243-261.

Beer, A. and Cooper, J.A. 2007 University-Regional Partnership in a Period of structural Adjustment: Lessons from Southern Adelaide's Response to an Automobile Plant Closure. European Planning Studies, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 1063-1083 .

Beer, A., Clower, T. and Kearins, B. 2006 Australia's Regions and their Potential for Economic and Population Growth, Farm Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 13-20.

Beer, A. submitted Households and Their Housing: The Key Drivers, Australian Planner.

Clarke, B. Compas, E. Beer, A. and Cutler, C. 2005 Investigating the effectiveness of a proposed marine protected area in an region of rapid urban expansion: some preliminary observations, South Australian Geographer, 104, pp. 64-76.

Beer, A. and Paris, C. 2005 Sustainable Housing Paradigms? The Impact of Reforms on the Social Housing Sector in South Australia and Northern Ireland, South Australian Journal of Geography, 104, pp 38-50.

Beer, A. and Cooper, J. in press University-Regional Partnership in a Period of Structural Adjustment: Lessons from Southern Adelaide's Response to an Automobile Plant Closure, European Planning Studies

Beer, A. Kearins, B. and Pieters, H. in press, Housing Affordability and Planning in Australia, Housing Studies

Beer, A. Clower, T. Haughton, G., and Maude, A. 2005 Neoliberalism and the Institutions for Regional Development in Australia, Geographical Research,
43:1, pp 49-58.

Beer, A. 2004 On Wine, Rent and Regions, European Planning Studies, 12:1, pp 57-83.

Beer, A. 2003 Social Exclusion, Housing and Access to Services Amongst Recent Immigrants to Australia, Applied Population Policy, 1:1, pp 67-78. Beer, A. 2004 On Wine, Rent and Regions, European Planning Studies, 12:1, pp
57-83.

Beer, A. 2003 Social Exclusion, Housing and Access to Services Amongst Recent Immigrants to Australia, Applied Population Policy, 1:1, pp 67-78.

*Beer, A. and Forster, C. 2002 Global Restructuring, the Welfare State and Urban Programmes: Federal Policies and Inequality within Australia’s Cities, European Planning Studies, 10:1, pp 8-25.

*Beer, A. 2001 Labour Market Change and Housing Market Segmentation in South Australia’s Non-Metropolitan Private Rental Market, Urban Policy and Research, 19:4, pp 441 – 66.

Beer, A. and Keane, R. 2000 Population Decline and Service Provision in Regional Australia: A Case Study of Rural and Remote South Australia, People and Place, 8:2, pp 69-76.

Beer, A. 2000 Listening, Talking and Acting: A New Approach to Regional Policy and Practice in Australia? Australian Planner, pp 24-32.

Beer, A. and O’Dwyer, L. 2000 The Use of Data from South Australia’s Rental Tenancy Tribunal for Research and Policy Analysis. Issues of Validity and Efficacy, Urban Policy and Research, 18:1, pp 29-44.

*Beer, A. 1999 Regional Cities within Australia’s Changing Urban System, 1991-96, Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 5:3, pp 329-48.

*Beer, A. 1999 Housing Investment and the Private Rental Sector in Australia, Urban Studies, 36:2, pp 255-69.

Beer, A. 1998 Muddling Through: Geography between the Tasman and Indian Oceans, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 22:2, pp 165-68.

Maude, A. and Beer, A. 2000 Regional Development Agencies in Australia: A Comparative Evaluation of Institutional Strengths and Weaknesses, Town Planning Review, 71: 1, pp 1 – 24.

Beer, A. and Cutler, C. 1998 An Australian Perspective on the Recommendations of the Dearing Committee, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 22: 1, pp 86-91.

Academic Editing

Beer, A. 2006 Regional Issues and Sustaining Regions: Moving On and Moving Forward Editorial, Sustaining Regions, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 3-5.

Beer, A. 2006 What Use the States? Editorial, Sustaining Regions, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 3-4.

Beer, A. 2006 Local Governments, Excellence and Regions Editorial, Sustaining Regions, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 3-4.

Other

Faulkner, D., Beer, A. and Cutler, C. 2007 Aspirations and Expectations of Older Age Cohorts in SA, Research Report Stage 2, Commissioned Report prepared for ECH Inc., August.

Beer, A., Faulkner, D. and Gabriel, M. 2006 21st Century Housing Careers and Australia's Housing Future: Literature Review, Research Paper 1, AHURI Southern Research Centre, February.

Beer, A., Slatter, M., Baulderstone, J. and Habibis, D. 2006 Evictions and Housing Management, Final Report No. 100, AHURI Southern Research Centre, June.

Beer, A., Faulkner, D. and Baker, E. 2006 Aspirations and Expectations of Older Age Cohorts in South Australia, Research Report Stage 1, Focus Group Outcomes prepared for ECH Inc, AHURI Southern Research Centre, August.

Faulkner, D. and Beer, A. with Hutson, K. 2006 Housing Models for an Ageing Population, Report to the City of Onkaparinga, AHURI Southern Research Centre, September.

Baker, E., Beer, A. and Paris, C. 2006 The Development of a Methodology tht Provides Indices to Measure and Monitor Housing Need at Various Spatial Scales, AHURI Southern Research Centre, August.

Maude, A., Tually, S. and Beer, A. 2006 Governance and the Organisation of Regional Development: Cross National Comparisons, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, Adelaide.

Beer, A., Baum, F., Thomas, H., Lowry, D., Cutler, C., Zhang, G., Jolley, G., Ziersch, A., Verity, F., MacDougall, C. and Newman, L. 2006 An Evaluation of the Impact of Retrenchment at Mitsubishi Focussing on Affected Workers, Their Families and Communities: Implications for Human Services Policies and Practices, HSRIP Report, Flinders University, Adelaide.