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Asset building and community development / by Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi; Sage; 2012Description: 337 pISBN:
  • 9781412982238
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.14 GRE 3rd ed
Summary: 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.
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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.

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