Part II
Mapping Community Assets
- 6 Asset-Based Community Development An introduction to Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) as a foundational framework for mapping and mobilizing community strengths, capacities, and resources rather than deficits.
- 7 Mapping Physical Assets A comprehensive guide to identifying, documenting, and analyzing the built environment, infrastructure, natural features, and physical resources that support community life and wellbeing.
- 8 Mapping Social Assets Explores the social infrastructure of communities — the relationships, networks, informal leaders, and care systems that hold communities together. Emphasizes ethical approaches to mapping human connections without exploitation.
- 9 Mapping Cultural Assets Examines culture as community infrastructure — local traditions, festivals, heritage sites, languages, arts, food, music, ritual, and memory. Addresses ethical dimensions including sacred sites, cultural sovereignty, and the protection of sensitive knowledge.
- 10 Mapping Economic Assets A comprehensive guide to documenting local businesses, employers, informal economies, main streets, tourism assets, skills inventories, entrepreneurship ecosystems, and economic opportunities — and the gaps that constrain them.
- 11 Mapping Institutional Assets Examines how to identify, document, and analyze government, schools, healthcare, nonprofits, libraries, emergency services, and other formal organizations that shape community life — including power dynamics, trust gaps, and collaboration opportunities.