The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dominelli, Lena

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 628
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351727471
• Artikelnr.: 54114088

Autorenporträt

Lena Dominelli holds a Chair in Applied Social Sciences in the School of Applied Social Sciences and is Co-Director at the Institute of Hazards, Risk and Resilience Research at Durham University where she has particular responsibility for work on vulnerability and resilience. She has held major large projects including those funded by the United Kingdom Research Councils - the ESRC ('Internationalising Institutional and Professional Practices'), EPSRC ('Climate Change, the Built Infrastructure and Health and Social Care Provisions for Older People'), and NERC (Earthquakes without Frontiers); and DfID (Department of International Development) and Wellcome Trust (Health Interventions during Volcanic Eruptions).

Inhaltsangabe

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).