The Global Environmental Crisis : Implications for Social Welfare and Social Work

The Global Environmental Crisis : Implications for Social Welfare and Social Work

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 325 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781856285858

基本説明

Demonstrates the convergence between social and ecvironmental problems and policies.

Full Description


Explores how environmental concerns challenge prevailing political and economic theories and practices which drive conceptions of social welfare. This volume addresses social workers, documenting the environmental factors in: health problems, unemployment, racism and consumerism.

Contents

Part 1 Establishing the relationships between social and environmental issues: environmental foundations of social welfare - theoretical resources, Marie D. Hoff; social welfare policy and the environmental crisis - it's time to rethink our traditional models, John G. McNutt; environmental injustice - social welfare and toxic waste, Mary E. Rogge; in an age of ecology - limits to voluntarism and traditional theory in social work practice, Frank James Tester. Part 2 Developing practice and educational responses: endangered culture - Hawaiians, nature and economic development, Jon K. Matsuoka and Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor; environmental quality and social welfare in Poland, Richard S. Bolan; Navajo uranium workers and the environment - technological disaster survival strategies, Susan E. Dawson; occupational disease and the disadvantaged worker - a mandate for social work, Paula T. Silver; the environmental crisis and direct social work practice, Madeline L. Lovell and Douglas L. Johnson; citizen participation in environmental decisions - policy, reality, and considerations for community organizing, Stephen E. Kauffman; case studies in community organizing around environmental threats, Jan Gallagher Shubert; field education for environmental hazards - expanding the person-in-environment perspective, Mary E. Rogge; putting the environment into the human behaviour and the social environment curriculum, Stephen E. Kauffman et al; conclusion - dilemmas and challenges for the future of social welfare and social work, John G. McNutt and Marie D. Hoff.

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