Asset Building and Community Development - Softcover

Green, Gary Paul; Haines, Anna L.

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9781412951340: Asset Building and Community Development

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412951348 ISBN 13: 9781412951340

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2007

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"This text provides practical insight and examples not available in other texts" -Desna Wallin, University of Georgia
The Second Edition of Asset Building and Community Development examines the promise and limits of community development. 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 edition explores how communities are building on their key assets-physical, human, social, financial, environmental, political, and cultural capital.

New to the Second Edition

Provides a more in-depth discussion of the role of assets in local development: Students are able to make stronger connections between the theory and practice of community development.
Presents a broader treatment of the community development field: Community-based organizations are explored, including faith-based organizations, youth-oriented organizations, and neighborhood associations.
Traces the history of community development: Chapters on cultural and political capital have been added.
Offers updated resources for students and practitioners: In addition to exercises and questions, each chapter concludes with case studies, additional references, Web sites, and videos.

Intended Audience
This is an ideal core textbook for undergraduate courses such as Community Development, Community Planning, and Urban Sociology in departments of sociology, urban and regional planning, political science, economics, urban studies, and geography.

Meet the authors! Gary Green's website dces.wisc.edu/faculty/green/index.php
Anna Haines website uwsp.edu/cnr/landcenter/

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About the Author:

Gary Paul Green is professor in the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a community development specialist in the Center for Community & Economic Development at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. Green received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research and outreach at the University of Wisconsin has focused on community, workforce and economic development issues. He is author of Finance Capital and Uneven Development (Westview Press) and Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas: Building the High Road (Edward Elgar Publishing) and a co-editor of Amenities and Rural Development: Theory, Methods and Public Policy (Edward Elgar Publishing). He has served as an advisor on community development issues in New Zealand, South Korea, Uganda and Ukraine.

Review:

"This is a very hands-on book, rich with both information and examples . . . what makes the volume especially readable is the insertion of brief case studies into most chapters . . . a productive read for both students of community development and the general public."

(Deborah Puntenney)

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