Asset Building and Community Development - Hardcover

Green, Gary Paul; Haines, Anna L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761924647 ISBN 13: 9780761924647

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2001

Synopsis

In Asset Building and Community Development Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines provide an engaging, thought-provoking, interdisciplinary overview of the community development field. They explore the history of the community development movement in the United States and in international settings. Using an asset-based approach that considers human, physical, social, financial, and environmental capital, the authors skillfully demonstrate how local organizations are better able to meet community needs than are governmental programs or market strategies.

Lively and informative, this well-crafted introduction to community development will appeal to students and to practitioners who want an understanding of the basic concepts and theories behind their activities.

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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)

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0761924647
• ISBN 13: 9780761924647
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264