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How asset-based development efforts can be successful.

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Author:   Gary Paul Green ,  Ann Goetting
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781439900864

ISBN 10:   1439900868
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   05 March 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Community Assets: Building the Capacity for Development – Gary Paul Green  2. Investing in the Double Bottom Line: Growing Financial Institutions in Native Communities – Sarah Dewees and Stewart Sarkozy- Banoczy  3. Asset- Based Community Development in Alabama’s Black Belt: Seven Strategies for Building a Diverse Community Movement – Emily Blejwas  4. The Politics of Protected Areas: Environmental Capital and Community Confl ict in Guatemala – Michael L. Dougherty and Rocío Peralta  5. Linking Cultural Capital Conceptions to Asset- Based Community Development – Rhonda Phillips and Gordon Shockley  6. Neighborhood Approaches to Asset Mobilization: Building Chicago’s West Side – John P. Kretzmann and Deborah Puntenney  7. Natural Amenities and Asset- Based Development in Rural Communities – Gary Paul Green  8. Implementing Community Development in the Mississippi Delta: The Effect of Organizations on Resident Participation – Mark H. Harvey and Lionel J. Beaulieu  9. Lessons Learned – Gary Paul Green  Contributors  Index

Reviews

Mobilizing Communities is a collection of interesting case studies that are rich in detail about the process of community development in places such as Guatemala, Alabama, and West Chicago. What these wide-ranging places have in common is using assets as the basis for sustainable development. There are relatively few books containing case studies in community development and, in particular that focus on assets, which makes this book unique, new, and valuable to community development academics and practitioners. -John Gruidl, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Western Illinois University

Green and Goetting begin Mobilizing Communities with an excellent overview of the strategies employed by needs-based and asset-based community development [ABCD] efforts... Because Green and Goetting provide a comprehensive overview of the ABCD practice at the beginning of the book, very little prior community development knowledge is required in order to digest the contributed chapters... [T]he bulk of the book is written in a way that should make it accessible to most audiences. In sum, Green and Goetting's Mobilizing Communities is a welcome addition to the community development literature. Journal of Urban Affairs Green and Goetting's edited volume Mobilizing Communities is an effort to explain more comprehensively how communities can productively respond to such massive challenges... What Green and Goetting and their contributors find in all of these contexts is that real communities, when faced with real problems and that maintain real assets, do not distinguish between 'problem-first' and 'assets-first' strategies... Green and Goetting thus conclude: 'Our only hope is to build stronger and more resilient communities that can challenge these powerful political and economic forces.' Perspectives on Politics, September 2012

Green and Goetting begin Mobilizing Communities with an excellent overview of the strategies employed by needs-based and asset-based community development [ABCD] efforts... Because Green and Goetting provide a comprehensive overview of the ABCD practice at the beginning of the book, very little prior community development knowledge is required in order to digest the contributed chapters... [T]he bulk of the book is written in a way that should make it accessible to most audiences. In sum, Green and Goetting's Mobilizing Communities is a welcome addition to the community development literature. Journal of Urban Affairs

Author Information

Gary Paul Green is Professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author, most recently, of Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas: Building the High Road. Ann Goetting is Professor of Sociology at Western Kentucky University.  She is the author or editor of three previous books, including (with Sarah Fenstermaker), Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology (Temple).

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