Welcome to the Companion Website

This site is intended to enhance your use of Asset Building & Community Development , Fourth Edition, by Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines. Please note that all the materials on this site are especially geared toward maximizing your understanding of the material. 

Asset Building and Community Development, Fourth Edition 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. 

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines for writing an excellent text and creating the materials on this site.