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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. 
 
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

 

Supplements

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  • Exam questions created by Gary Paul Green include three exams with essay questions and, for each chapter, additional multiple-choice questions.  This resource provides you with pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding.
  • A Respondus electronic test bank created by Gary Paul Green is available and can be used on PCs. The test bank contains several multiple choice questions for each chapter, as well as the three essay-based exams, and the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding. Respondus is also compatible with many popular learning management systems so you can easily get your test questions into your online course.
  • Editable, chapter-specific Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides offer you complete flexibility in easily creating a multimedia presentation for your course.
  • Lecture notes summarize key concepts on a chapter-by-chapter basis to help with preparation for lectures and class discussions.
  • Sample course syllabi for semester and quarter courses provide suggested models for use when creating the syllabi for your courses.
  • Chapter-specific discussion questions help launch classroom interaction by prompting students to engage with the material and by reinforcing important content. 
  • Lively and stimulating ideas for class exercises that can be used in class to reinforce active learning. The activities apply to individual or group projects.
  • Web resources from the textbook are included for further research and insights.

 

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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.”

Robert Blair
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.”

Moe Chowdhury
Jackson State University

“The collection of readings brings community development and practice alive.”

Eva M. Moya
University of Texas at El Paso

One of the best book for teaching assets based community development

Mr Kevin Riles
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.

Ms Jodie Low
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

Lesley Godfrey
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.

Dr Lydia M Lopez-Ruiz
Human and Community Service, Esperanza Clg Of Eastern Univ
September 30, 2015

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Chapter 1

Chapter 4


Gary Paul Green

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. More About Author

Anna Lyn Haines

Anna L. Haines, Ph.D. is a professor in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point and a land use and community development specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Extension. Haines received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Her research and teaching focuses on planning and community development from a natural resources or environmental perspective. Her research has focused on evaluating community planning and zoning in terms of smart growth and sustainability, land parcelization, and local food systems. Her extension work has... More About Author

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