The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Preface
Foreword: Green social work: a new direction for social work
Introduction: why green social work?
Part I Green social work theory
	1 Green social work in theory and practice: a new environmental paradigm for the profession
	2 Transdisciplinary collaboration between physical and social scientists: drawing on the experiences of an advisor to Earthquakes without Frontiers (EwF)
	3 Disasters, health impacts and the value of implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
	4 The critical role of social work in disaster response: experiences in the United Kingdom
	5 Rebuilding lives post-disaster: innovative community practices for sustainable development
	6 Green social work for environmental justice: implications for international social workers
Part II Natural disasters
	7 Promoting public interest design: green social work interventions during the post-Ya’an earthquake reconstruction and recovery in Sichuan, China
	8 Solidarity in times of disaster: the case of Chile
	9 Social work response to Himalayan disasters: insights from green social work
	10 Dissecting a Himalayan disaster, finding pathways
	11 A post-Morakot environmentally friendly reconstruction solution: reflections from a green social work perspective
	12 Dominica – Tropical Storm Erika and its impacts
Part III Green agricultural practices
	13 Developing green social work in a participatory small watershed management programme in China’s tourism city of Lijiang
	14 Reflections on a Tribal Kitchen Project: a case study about green social work in Taiwan
	15 Community gardening: the nexus for community, social work and university collaboration
Part IV Food (in)security
	16 Food insecurity: where social injustice meets environmental exploitation
	17 The food security crisis and CSA movement in China: green social work practice in Yunnan Province
Part V (Hu)man-made disasters
	18 Environmental issues and controversies in Latin America: a challenge for social work
	19 Green social work requires a green politics
	20 Green social work within integrated coastal zone management: Mauritius and Barbados
	21 Social protection options for women farmers in the face of climate change: a case study of women farmers and agriculture in Goromonzi, Zimbabwe
	22 Climate justice, capabilities and sustainable livelihoods: insights from an action research project
Part VI Extreme weather events
	23 The 2015 Chennai Floods: green social work, an emerging model for practice in India
	24 Mitigating the impact of drought in Namibia: implications for social work practice, education and policy
Part VII Disaster-driven migration
	25 Understanding poverty through the experiences of women who are forced migrants: considerations for a social work response
	26 Positioning Social Workers Without Borders within green social work: ethical considerations for social work as social justice work
Part VIII Health disasters
	27 Intersectionality in health pandemics
	28 The arrival of chikungunya on the Caribbean island of Curaçao: the important role of social workers
	29 The challenge of maintaining continuity in health and social care during extreme weather events: cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary approaches
Part IX Industrial and urban issues
	30 Sowing the seeds: a green social work project in Sri Lanka
	31 The ecological hazards of nuclear waste disposal: tensions between aspirations for economic prosperity and community sustainability in a small Croatian municipality
	32 Integrating green social work and the US environmental justice movement: an introduction to community benefits agreements
Part X Practicing green social work
	33 Historical trends in calls to action: climate change, pro-environmental behaviours and green social work
	34 Community resistance and resilience following an environmental disaster in Aotearoa/New Zealand
	35 Human-made disasters and social work: a Ukrainian perspective
	36 Strategies used by activists in Israeli environmental struggles: implications for the future green social worker
	37 Working with children in disasters
	38 Persons with disabilities in the Great East Japan Earthquake: lessons learnt and new directions towards evidence-based empowering just practices
	39 Social work and terrorism: voices of experience
	40 Personal reflections on the Prevent programme
	41 Reflecting on the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, tread carefully
Part XI Education
	42 Making connections with survivors of a catastrophic flood in West Virginia: a green social work approach to climate change adaptation
	43 Towards a curriculum in disaster risk reduction from a green social work perspective
	44 Greening social work education in Aotearoa/New Zealand
	45 Greening Australian social work practice and education
	46 Greening social work education: transforming the curriculum in pursuit of eco–social justice
Conclusions: towards a green society and mainstreaming green social work in social work education and practice
Name index
Subject index