Asset Building & Community Development

Third Edition
ISBN: 978-1-4129-8223-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Gary P. (Paul)

Haines, Anna L. (Lyn)

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Non-Profit-Organisationen, Verbände

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
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
Index
About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Green, Gary P. (Paul)
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.

Haines, Anna L. (Lyn)
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 focused on comprehensive planning and planning implementation tools and techniques, sustainable communities, and property rights issues.