Dominelli Green Social Work

From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8082-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhancepeople's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-keyrole in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people'swell-being, both locally and globally.
This compelling new contribution confronts this topic head-on,examining environmental issues from a social work perspective. LenaDominelli draws attention to the important voice of practitionersworking on the ground in the aftermath of environmental disasters,whether these are caused by climate change, industrial accidents orhuman conflict. The author explores the concept of 'greensocial work' and its role in using environmental crises to addresspoverty and other forms of structural inequalities, to obtain moreequitable allocations of limited natural resources and to tackleglobal socio-political forces that have a damaging impact upon thequality of life of poor and marginalized populations at locallevels. The resolution of these matters is linked to communityinitiatives that social workers can engage in to ensure that thequality of life of poor people can be enhanced without costing theEarth.
This important book will appeal to those in the fields of socialwork, social policy, sociology and human geography. It powerfullyreveals how environmental issues are an integral part of socialwork's remit if it is to retain its currency in the modern worldand emphasize its relevance to the social issues that societieshave to resolve in the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dominelli, Lena

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. A Professional Crisis within Social and Environmental Calamities
3. Reclaiming Industrialization and Urbanization for People
4. Industrial Pollution, Environmental Degradation and People's Resilience
5. Climate Change, Renewable Energy and Solving Social Problems
6. Environmental Crises, Social Conflict and Mass Migrations
7. Environmental Degradation, Natural Disasters and Marginalization
8. Scarce Natural Resources and Inter-Country Conflict Resolution
9. Interrogating World Views: From Unsustainable to Sustainable Ways of Reframing Peoples' Relationships to Living Environments
10.Conclusions: Green Social Work
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lena Dominelli is Professor of Applied Social Sciences in the School of Applied Social Sciences, and Associate Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Research at Durham University.