Asset Building & Community Development
Author Information
Gary P. (Paul) Green, Anna L. (Lyn) HainesProduct Details
ISBN: 9781412982238Publish Date: 01/20/2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Number of pages: 360
Description
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.