Asset Building & Community Development
Fourth Edition
- Gary Paul Green - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- Anna Haines - University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA
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April 2015 | 416 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
A comprehensive approach focused on sustainable change
Asset Building and Community Development, Fourth Edition examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of life. Authors Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines provide an engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive approach to asset building by focusing on the role of different forms of community capital in the development process. Updated throughout, this text explores how communities are building on their key assets—physical, human, social, financial, environmental, political, and cultural capital— to generate positive change. With a focus on community outcomes, the authors illustrate how development controlled by community-based organizations provides a better match between assets and the needs of the community.
Asset Building and Community Development, Fourth Edition examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of life. Authors Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines provide an engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive approach to asset building by focusing on the role of different forms of community capital in the development process. Updated throughout, this text explores how communities are building on their key assets—physical, human, social, financial, environmental, political, and cultural capital— to generate positive change. With a focus on community outcomes, the authors illustrate how development controlled by community-based organizations provides a better match between assets and the needs of the community.
Chapter 1: The Role of Assets in Community-Based Development
| Whither Community? |
| Growth Versus Development |
| People Versus Place |
| Capacity Building |
| Community Sustainability |
| The Challenge of Regionalism |
| Asset Building |
| Public Participation |
| The Role of Community-Based Organizations |
| Models of Community Development |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 2: A History of Community Development in America
| The Evolution of Community Development |
| Recurring Issues in Community Development |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 3: Community Sustainability
| What Is Community Sustainability? |
| Why Sustainability? |
| The History of Sustainability |
| Approaches to Sustainability |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 4: The Community Development Process
| Community Organizing |
| Public Participation |
| Planning Models, Techniques, and Process Steps |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 5: The Role of Community-Based Organizations
| Community Development Corporations |
| Local Development Corporations |
| Neighborhood Associations |
| Community Youth Organizations |
| Faith-Based Organizations |
| Community Foundations |
| International Nongovernmental Organizations |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 6: Human Capital
| Workforce Development Issues |
| Key Concepts and Debates |
| CBOs and Workforce Development |
| Context for Workforce Development |
| Key Actors and Institutions |
| Local Labor Market Data |
| Developing Goals and Strategies |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 7: Social Capital
| Social Capital Definition and Issues |
| Key Concepts and Debates |
| CBOs and Social Capital |
| Social Capital and Ethnic Enclaves |
| Social Capital and Local Economic Development |
| Assessing Social Capital |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 8: Physical Capital
| Housing Issues |
| Key Concepts and Debates |
| A History of Federal Housing Policy |
| The Role of CBOs in Housing Provision |
| The Impact of CBOs |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 9: Financial Capital
| Financial Capital Issues |
| Key Concepts and Debates |
| Community Credit Institutions |
| Context for Community Credit Institutions |
| Key Actors and Institutions |
| Community Economic Development Finance |
| Predatory Lending |
| Individual Development Accounts |
| Assessing Local Credit Markets |
| Strategies for Building Local Credit Markets |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 10: Environmental Capital
| Forms of Environmental Capital |
| Land Use and Environmental Capital |
| The Roles of Government and the Market |
| Community-Based Organizations |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 11: Political Capital
| Key Concepts and Debates |
| Methods |
| Community-Based Organization and Political Capital |
| Community Collaboration and Political Capital |
| Deliberative Democracy as Political Capital |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 12: Cultural Capital
| Cultural Capital Definition and Issues |
| Key Concepts and Debates |
| Culture and Place |
| Government and CBOs in Cultural Capital |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 13: Food, Energy, and Community
| Local Food Systems and Community |
| Types of Local Food Systems |
| Energy and Local Sustainability |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 14: Natural Disasters and Climate Change: The Role of Community Assets
| What Are Natural Disasters? |
| What Creates Natural Disasters? |
| Responses to Natural Disasters |
| The Role of Community-Based Organizations |
| Summary and Conclusions |
Chapter 15: The Future of Community Development
| Fulfilling the Promise of Community-Based Development |
| Local Versus External Initiation of Community Development |
| Community-Based Organizations and International Development |
| An Agenda for Promoting Community Development in America |
| Summary and Conclusions |
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“Green and Haines provide community development practitioners with the tools to engage the public in the development of their communities and neighborhoods.”
University of Nebraska Omaha
“Easy to read and comprehend, the book keeps up with the new data and materials and therefore a must read for anyone engaged in community and economic development.”
Jackson State University
“The collection of readings brings community development and practice alive.”
University of Texas at El Paso
This is a very well structured book providing a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical framework underpinning asset based community development. The coherence enables an evidence base for community planning in an accessible format for level 5-6 students.
Applied Social and Community Studies, Derby University
July 15, 2016
A useful book providing a considered and comprehensive background to asset building in community development, written for the American market, but much of which is applicable in the UK
Playwork Group, Leeds Beckett University
June 19, 2015
The book present an asset-based approach of the Work with Community. Present the material divided by capital. Is easy to read. Provided resources for students.
Human and Community Service, Esperanza Clg Of Eastern Univ
March 26, 2015
