Introduction to Community DevelopmentTheory, Practice, and Service-Learning

Introduction to Community Development: Theory, Practice, and Service-Learning
by Jerry W. Robinson, Gary P. (Paul) Green

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This text provides students of community and economic development with a theoretical and practical introduction to the field. Bringing together leading scholars, it provides both a conceptual background and contemporary approaches, with a progression from theory to practice. Included are case studies and supportive material to develop community service-learning activities.

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 received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research, teaching, and outreach at the University of Wisconsin has focused on community, workforce and economic development issues. He is author of Finance Capital and Uneven Development (Westview Press), Asset Building and Community Development (Sage Publications) and Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas: Building the High Road (Edward Elgar Publishing) and a co-editor of Amenities and Rural Development: Theory, Methods and Public Policy (Edward Elgar Publishing). He has served as an advisor on community development issues in New Zealand, South Korea, Uganda and Ukraine.

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