By providing the theories, practices, policies, knowledge and skills required to act responsibly in responding to the disasters that threaten the earth, this book handbook will be required reading for all social work students, academics and professionals, as well as those working in the fields of community development and disaster management.
Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things - plants and animals, and the physical ecosystem; emphasises the relational nature of all its constituent parts; and redefines the duty to care for and about others as one that includes the duty to care for and about planet earth.
By acknowledging the interdependency of all living things it allows for the inclusion of all systems and institutions in its remit, including both (hu)man-made and natural disasters arising from the (hu)made ones of poverty to chemical pollution of the earth's land, waters and soils and climate change, to the natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes which turn to disasters through human (in)action. Green social work's value system is also one that favours equality, social inclusion, the equitable distribution of resources, and a rights-based approach to meeting people's needs to live in an ethical and sustainable manner. Responding to these issues is one of the biggest challenges facing social workers in the twenty-first century which this Handbook is intended to address.
Through providing the theories, practices, policies, knowledge and skills required to act responsibly in responding to the diverse disasters that threaten to endanger all living things and planet earth itself, this green social work handbook will be required reading for all social work students, academics and professionals, as well as those working in the fields of community development and disaster management.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Green Social Work, a New Direction for Social Work (Lena Dominelli); Introduction: Why Green Social Work (Lena Dominelli, Bala Raju Nikki and Hok Bun Ku); Part I. Green Social Work Theory; Scene Setting Section; Chapter 1: Green Social Work: Reconfiguring the Environmental Landscape in Social Work as a Transdisciplinary Endeavour (Lena Dominelli); Chapter 2: Transdisciplinary Collaboration between Physical and Social Scientists: Drawing on the Experiences of an Advisor to Earthquakes without Frontiers (EwF) (Peter Sammonds); Chapter 3: Disasters, Health Impacts and the Value of Implementing the 'Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015-2030' (Virginia Murray, Lorcan Clarke and Rishma Maini); Theory into Practice Section; Chapter 4: Work in Disasters: Experiences in the United Kingdom (David N Jones); Chapter 5: Rebuilding Lives Post-Disaster: Innovative Community Practices for Sustainable Development (Julie Drolet, Haorui Wu, Robin Ersing, Margaret Alston, Desley Hargreaves, Yenyi Huang, Chao Hsing Huang and Golam Mathbor); Chapter 6: Green Social Work for Environmental Justice: Implications for International Social Workers (Meredith C. F. Powers, Jennifer Willett, John Mathias, and Anna Hayward); Part II. Natural Disasters; Chapter 7: Promoting Public Interest Design: The transformative change toward green social work during post-Ya'an earthquake reconstruction and recovery in Sichuan China (Haorui Wu); Chapter 8: Developing Community Solidarity in the Context of an Earthquake Disaster; (Rosemary A. Barbera); Chapter 9: A Social Work Response to Himalayan Disasters: Insights from Green Social; (Bala Raju Nikku); Chapter 10: Dissecting a Himalayan Disaster, Finding Pathways (Adusumalli Malathi).
