Description
Book SynopsisSocial work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally.
Trade Review"A very important and valuable argument for social work's engagement with environmental issues … Hopefully, it will be seen as a step along the path to a truly and deeply transformed social work."
British Journal of Social Work
"A rallying cry for the 're-politicisation' of social work."
Professional Social Work
"This book could not be more timely. The global crisis caused by climate change, environmental degradation, and food and water insecurity has created fertile ground for global inequalities. The role of social work in intersecting between people and policy can ensure that the human rights of the most vulnerable are protected and that socially just solutions are enacted. I applaud Lena Dominelli on her book and see it becoming a seminal social work text."
Margaret Alston, Monash University "Lena Dominelli has done it yet again with another first in social work education! In Green Social Work, she combines her usual interests in human rights, poverty and inequality, and social justice with that of climate justice. Pragmatic intervention strategies and case studies are provided that make the book a necessary companion for educators, practitioners and students of social work and related disciplines."
Vishanthie Sewpaul, University of KwaZulu Natal
"Green Social Work makes an important contribution to explicating the links between the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Lena Dominelli convincingly argues that social workers are key to articulating the social with the environmental, and provides environmentalists with valuable insights into the ways in which societies' more vulnerable people and communities experience social-environmental disadvantage."
Susan Buckingham, Brunel University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
