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Asset Building & Community Development
Fourth Edition
- Gary Paul Green - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- Anna Haines - University of Wisconsin, USA, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA
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
Chapter 2: A History of Community Development in America
Chapter 3: Community Sustainability
Chapter 4: The Community Development Process
Chapter 5: The Role of Community-Based Organizations
Chapter 6: Human Capital
Chapter 7: Social Capital
Chapter 8: Physical Capital
Chapter 9: Financial Capital
Chapter 10: Environmental Capital
Chapter 11: Political Capital
Chapter 12: Cultural Capital
Chapter 13: Food, Energy, and Community
Chapter 14: Natural Disasters and Climate Change: The Role of Community Assets
Chapter 15: The Future of Community Development
“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
One of the best book for teaching assets based community development
School Of Architecture, Texas Southern University
May 29, 2021
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
March 31, 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
September 30, 2015
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