Asset Building & Community Development - Softcover

Green, Gary P. (Paul); Haines, Anna L. (Lyn)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412982235 ISBN 13: 9781412982238

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2011

Synopsis

Employing a broad definition of community development, this book shows how asset building can help increase the capacity of residents to improve their quality of life. It provides students and practitioners with theoretical and practical guidance on how to mobilize community capital (physical, human, social, financial, environmental, political, and cultural) to effect positive change. Authors Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines show that development controlled by community-based organizations provides a better match between these assets and the needs of the communities.

About this title

About the Author:

Gary Paul Green is a 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’s teaching and research interests are primarily in the areas of community and economic development. In addition to his work in the U.S., he has been involved in community and economic development research and teaching in China, New Zealand, South Korea, Uganda, and Ukraine.

Review:

"Excellent updates from the last edition. More practical examples." (JenniferA. Raitt)

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1412982235
• ISBN 13: 9781412982238
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 360