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Lena Dominelli - Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice - 9780745654010 - V9780745654010
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Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice

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Description for Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice Paperback. Social 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. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RNP; RNT; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Social 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.

This compelling new contribution confronts this topic head-on, examining environmental issues from a social work perspective. Lena Dominelli draws attention to the important voice of practitioners working on the ground in the aftermath of environmental disasters, whether these are caused by climate change, industrial accidents or human conflict. The author explores the concept of ‘green social work' and its role in using environmental crises to ... Read more

This important book will appeal to those in the fields of social work, social policy, sociology and human geography. It powerfully reveals how environmental issues are an integral part of social work's remit if it is to retain its currency in the modern world and emphasize its relevance to the social issues that societies have to resolve in the twenty-first century.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Polity
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745654010
SKU
V9780745654010
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Lena Dominelli
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.

Reviews for Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice
"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 ... Read more

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