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Book SynopsisHow asset-based development efforts can be successful.
Trade Review“Green and Goetting begin Mobilizing Communities
with an excellent overview of the strategies employed by needs-based and asset-based community development [ABCD] efforts.... accessible to most audiences…Mobilizing Communities
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Journal of Urban AffairsTable of Contents1. 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
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