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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 9-9 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Rural Society |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
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Environmentalism and social work. / Pulla, Venkat.
In: Rural Society, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2013, p. 9-9.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Environmentalism and social work
AU - Pulla, Venkat
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: Journal title (773t) = Rural Society: the journal of research into rural and regional social issues in Australia. ISSNs: 1037-1656;
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - When it comes to disasters and natural calamities, social work appears to be at the forefrontof immediate relief efforts by working alongside emergency service personnel or byproviding trauma and emotional support counselling. Despite this expertise in context drivenwork, social work rarely addresses or attends to human interactions within the naturalenvironment. This review utilises an important reference book released recently calledEnvironmental Social Work (Gray, Coates & Hetherington, 2013) to explain the need forsocial work and human services professions to become sensitive and central to environmentalconcerns. Environmental Social Work (Gray, et al, 2013) maintains that the profession ofsocial work has been late to engage with environmental movements and has remainedexclusively in the arena of the social environment. The time is certainly ripe for a discussionaround the possibility of social work’s environmental engagement as more consistentwritings have appeared over the past decade. This article will briefly review the theoreticalorientations of evolving environmental social work practice efforts that are being made tobring this agenda into the profession.
AB - When it comes to disasters and natural calamities, social work appears to be at the forefrontof immediate relief efforts by working alongside emergency service personnel or byproviding trauma and emotional support counselling. Despite this expertise in context drivenwork, social work rarely addresses or attends to human interactions within the naturalenvironment. This review utilises an important reference book released recently calledEnvironmental Social Work (Gray, Coates & Hetherington, 2013) to explain the need forsocial work and human services professions to become sensitive and central to environmentalconcerns. Environmental Social Work (Gray, et al, 2013) maintains that the profession ofsocial work has been late to engage with environmental movements and has remainedexclusively in the arena of the social environment. The time is certainly ripe for a discussionaround the possibility of social work’s environmental engagement as more consistentwritings have appeared over the past decade. This article will briefly review the theoreticalorientations of evolving environmental social work practice efforts that are being made tobring this agenda into the profession.
KW - Open access version available
KW - Environmental aspects
KW - Environmentalism
KW - Social aspects
KW - Social work
M3 - Article
VL - 22
SP - 9
EP - 9
JO - Rural Society: the journal of research into rural and regional social issues in Australia
JF - Rural Society: the journal of research into rural and regional social issues in Australia
SN - 1037-1656
IS - 3
ER -