Environmental social work
Environmental social work
Social work has been late to engage with the environmental movement. Often working with an exclusively social understanding of environment, much of the social work profession has overlooked the importance of environmental issues. However, recently, the impact of and worldwide at…
"Social work has been late to engage with the environmental movement. Often working with an exclusively social understanding of environment, much of the social work profession has overlooked the importance of environmental issues. However, recently, the impact of and worldwide a…
Divided into three parts, this field-defining work explores what environmental social work is, and how it can be put into practice. It focuses on theory, discussing ecological and social justice, as well as sustainability, spirituality and human rights.
"Social work has been late to engage with the environmental movement. Often working with an exclusively social understanding of environment, much of the social work profession has overlooked the importance of environmental issues. However, recently, the impact of and worldwide a…
"In the year 1966, a young man named Stewart Brand handed out buttons in San Francisco reading: "Why haven't we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?" Two years later, the NASA photograph of the "blue planet" appeared on the cover of the Whole Earth Catalog. In creating the …