Social Work and Sustainability in Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Facing the Challenges of Global Environmental Changes
Redaktion: Chong, Alice M. L.; Chi, Iris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Combining case studies and country reports from around Asia with a theoretical framework for understanding sustainability concerns, this book aims to show how social work can play a valuable role in mitigating and adapting to environmental challenges and social sustainability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315514956
• Artikelnr.: 55071432

Autorenporträt

Alice M. L. Chong is Professor and Social Work Discipline Leader in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Iris Chi is the Chinese-American Golden Age Association/Frances Wu Chair for the Chinese Elderly at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
Preface (Annamaria Campanini)
Preface (Ruth Stark)
List of tables
Lists of figures
List of photographs
Part I: Theory and Concepts of Social Sustainability and Social Work
1. Social Work and Sustainable Development: An Overview
IRIS CHI, ALICE M. L. CHONG, TING KIN NG, AND DIEGO BUSIOL
2. Neoliberalism and Globalization: Trends Shaping Sustainable Social Work
Practice
MICHAEL HOLOSKO AND JOELLE A. PETTUS
3. Social Sustainability and Global Climate Change: A New Challenge for
Social Work
LAWRENCE A. PALINKAS AND MARLEEN WONG
4. Operationalizing and Measuring Social, Economic and Environmental
Sustainability: Current Efforts and Future Directions
MARY L. OHMER
Part II: Case Studies in Asia
5. Global grassroots green movement driven by Tzu Chi Foundation's
recycling volunteers: a multifaceted model of environmental sustainability
with transformative social changes
HSIN-YI HSIAO, HSUN-TA HSU, DEBRA BOUDREAUX, AND ALICE TING
6. Apocalyptic learning for sustainability in aged Japan: positive
reciprocities and social innovations in the information age
ON-KWOK LAI
7. Reducing the High Vulnerability of the Elderly to Urban Flooding:
Findings from the 2011 Floods in Bangkok
DANNY MARKS
8. Humanitarian response after a complex environmental disaster: a case
study of Typhoon Haiyan
TARA POWELL AND JADE BRACK
9. In the Typhoon Corridor: Rebuilding Communities in the Philippines
through Empowerment and Innovation
ANNALISA ENRILE, GABRIELLE AQUINO, AND VIVIEN VILLAVERDE
10. The Global Climate Change: Necessary Child Protection Services in
Vietnam
TUYEN THI THANH BUI, GRACE M. MISHLER AND GARY W. STUDEBAKER
11. Mass relocation and social sequence for the elderly in rural China
WEIHONG ZENG, ZHENG WU, CHRISTOPH M. SCHIMMELE AND SHUZHUO LI
12. Maximizing impact in Hong Kong: economic, social, and environmental
sustainability among nongovernmental organizations
ELAINE AU LIU AND PAUL VINOD KHIATANI
13. Collaboration and Innovation for Inclusive Green Growth at a Community
Level in Suzhou, China
WANXIN LI, ERIC ZUSMAN AND JINING CHEN
14. Social work education in China: issues, challenges, and implications
for sustainability
PATRICK LEUNG AND ASHLEIGH SCINTA
Part III: Leadership and Future Development
15. Preparing Social Workers to Advance Social Sustainability: Transforming
Social Work Education
MARY L. OHMER
16. Leadership and Sustainable Development in the Future
ALICE M. L. CHONG, IRIS CHI, AND DIEGO BUSIOL
Index