Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book Environmental Change and Sustainable Social Development written by Professor Sven Hessle and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does climate change affect social work and social development? What actions are needed to integrate the three pillars of economic development, environmental development and social protection? This informative and incisively written edited collection brings together experts from around the world to analyse the person-in-environment concept and to find measures for its implementation. Through the presentation of theoretical and practical platforms for environmental social work or ‘green social work’, the editors hope to bring about a new paradigmatic shift in our attitude to the concept of person-in- environment.