Victoria A. Beard

Planning, Policy & Design

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia

Phone: 824-6484

Office: 206B SEI

Summary of Research Interests:

Professor Beard's research and teaching focus on planning in developing countries. Broadly, her research seeks to understand how citizens plan for themselves independent of, in collaboration with, and in opposition to state and local government agencies to alleviate poverty. Recent work examines relationships between decentralization, community-level collective action, democratization, elite capture and poverty alleviation. Professor Beard has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, RAND, and the Research Triangle Institute.

Selected Publications

Beard, V.A. and R.S. Cartmill. 2008. Gender and Participation in Community Development in Indonesia. In Women and Human Security: Challenges of Conflict and Global Change. eds., R.A. Matthew and H. Goldsworthy, in press.

Beard, V.A., Miraftab, F. and C. Silver. (eds) 2008. Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South, London: Taylor and Francis, http://www.amazon.com/Planning-Decentralization-Contested-Public-Action/dp/0415414989/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214169804&sr=8-1.

Mason, D.R. and V.A. Beard. 2008. Community-Based Planning and Poverty Alleviation in Oaxaca, Mexico. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 27(2): 245-260.

Beard, V.A., Pradhan, M., Vao, R. Cartmill, R., Rivayani. 2008. Community-Driven Development and Elite Capture: Microcredit and Community Board Participation in Indonesia, in Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South, eds., V.A. Bead, F. Miraftab and C. Silver. London: Taylor and Francis.

Beard, V.A. 2007. Household Contributions to Community Development in Indonesia. World Development, 35(4): 607-625.

Dasgupta, A. and V.A. Beard. 2007. Community Driven Development, Collective Action and Elite Capture in Indonesia. Development and Change, 38(2): 229-249.

Beard, V.A. and R.S. Cartmill. 2007. Gender, Collective Action and Participatory Development in Indonesia, International Development Planning Review, 29(2): 185-213.

Beard, V.A. and A. Dasgupta. 2006. Collective Action and Community Driven Development in Rural and Urban Indonesia. Urban Studies, 43(9): 1451-1468.

Beard, V.A. 2005. Individual Determinants of Participation in Community Development in Indonesia, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 23(1): 21-39.

Beard, V.A. 2003. Learning Radical Planning: The Power of Collective Action. Planning Theory, 2(1): 13-35.

Beard, V.A. 2002. Covert Planning for Social Transformation in Indonesia. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 22(1): 15-25.

Beard, V.A. and Y. Kunharibowo. 2001. Living Arrangements and Support Relationships among Elderly Indonesians: Case Studies from Java and Sumatra. International Journal of Population Geography, 7: 17-33.

Beard, V.A. 2000. Rethinking Urban Poverty: A Look Inside the Indonesian Household. Third World Planning Review, 22(4): 1-17.

Frankenberg, E., V.A. Beard, and M. Saputra. 1999. The Kindred Spirit: Ties between Indonesian Children and their Parents. The Southeast Asian Journal of Social Sciences, 27(2): 65-86.

Beard, V.A. 1999. Navigating and Creating Spaces: An Indonesian Community's Struggle for Land Tenure. Plurimondi, 1(2): 127-145.

Planning, Policy and Design

Victoria A. Beard

Selected Publications