1st Edition
Environmental Change and Sustainable Social Development Social Work-Social Development Volume II
By Sven Hessle
Copyright 2014
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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How does climate change affect social work and social development? What actions are needed to integrate the three pillars of economic development, environmental development and social protection? With global warming and the increase in natural disasters due to the emission of greenhouse gases, an alternative approach to the natural environment is vital. The main focus of this volume is to... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, SvenHessle; Chapter 2 The Government of Canada, CindyBlackstock; Chapter 3 Environmental Social Work, Fred H.Besthorn; Chapter 4 Disaster Management; Chapter 5 Indigenous Understanding of Environmental Change and its Social Consequences; Chapter 6 Integrating Economic, Environmental and Social Perspectives; Chapter 7 Social Action for Clean Water; Chapter 8 Social Economy and Sustainable Social Development; Chapter 9 Sustainable Social Development; Chapter 10 Environmental Justice at the Heart of Social Work Practice, LenaDominelli;
Biography
Sven Hessle is Professor of Social Work at Stockholm University in Sweden and editor in chief of The International Journal of Social Welfare.
'These three volumes [see also Human Rights and Social Equality: Challenges for Social Work and Global Social Transformation and Social Action: The Role of Social Workers] have the intention of covering the ’most important social aspects of social work and development in the world today’, a writes Sven Hessle, Professor of Social Work at Stockholm University, in the introduction to the volumes. ... The many contributions of three volumes, albeit very diverse in form as well as in substance, provide food for thought about the global agenda.' European Journal of Social Work
