Asset Building & Community Development. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gary Paul Green, Anna Haines.
• Authors: Green, Gary P; Haines, Anna
• Contents: 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;
• Edition: Fourth Edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 307.14; Community development
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483387017; 1483387011
• Related ISBNs: 9781483344034
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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