Asset Building & Community Development by Gary Paul Green
This engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive text 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.
"Green and Haines provide community development practitioners with the tools to engage the public in the development of their communities and neighborhoods" -- Robert Blair
"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
"The collection of readings brings community development and practice alive." -- Eva M. Moya
"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
"The collection of readings brings community development and practice alive." -- Eva M. Moya
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. 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781483344034 |
| ISBN 10 | 1483344037 |
| Title | Asset Building & Community Development |
| Author | Gary Paul Green |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2015-06-17 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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