Practising Green Social Work: Considerations of Knowledge, Skills and Practice

Practicing Green Social Work provides a holistic paradigm for practice that positions the person in their environment as situated in their social, cultural and physical ecosystems. Meeting this objective requires a transdisciplinary, coproduction-based approach to devise holistic, coproduced solutions to current social and ecological problems.Key in this regard is climate change with its associated extreme weather events.Human behaviour has produced a climate crisis that social workers are likely to ignore in their daily practice.This book argues that climate change and other ecological disasters are everyone’s business, and social workers and related professionals are not excluded.Through examining practitioners’ responses to climate change and other ecological disasters and how they can better prepare themselves to understand and then intervene appropriately, it identifies what knowledge, skills and training they require to become effective eco-practitioners who can intervene in disa