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Green social work : from environmental crises to environmental justice
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ISBN: 9780745654003 9780745654010 0745654002 0745654010 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Polity Press

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Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally.This compelling new contribution confronts this topic head-on, examining environmental issues from a social work perspective. Lena Dominelli draws attention to the important voice of practitioners working on the ground in the aftermath of environmental disasters, whether these are caused by climate change, industrial accidents or human conflict. The author explores the concept of green social work' and its role in using environmental crises to address poverty and other forms of structural inequalities, to obtain more equitable allocations of limited natural resources and to tackle global socio-political forces that have a damaging impact upon the quality of life of poor and marginalized populations at local levels. The resolution of these matters is linked to community initiatives that social workers can engage in to ensure that the quality of life of poor people can be enhanced without costing the Earth. This important book will appeal to those in the fields of social work, social policy, sociology and human geography. It powerfully reveals how environmental issues are an integral part of social work's remit if it is to retain its currency in the modern world and emphasize its relevance to the social issues that societies have to resolve in the twenty-first century.eu.wiley.com

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Social problems --- sociaal werk --- klimaatveranderingen --- vervuiling --- Social welfare methods --- methoden van het sociaal werk --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Sociaal werk --- Duurzaamheid --- Milieu --- Milieubeleid --- UMWELTZERSTÖRUNG + UMWELTKATASTROPHEN --- UMWELTZERSTÖRUNG UND UMWELTSCHUTZ, UMWELTWISSENSCHAFTEN --- UMWELTSOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN, UMWELTSOZIOLOGIE --- UMWELTKONFLIKTE (INNENPOLITIK) --- UMWELTFLÜCHTLINGE (POLITIK) --- UMWELTBELASTUNG/AUSWIRKUNG AUF DEN MENSCHEN (UMWELTMEDIZIN) --- GERECHTIGKEIT (ETHIK) --- SOZIALE PROBLEME UND PROBLEMFELDER --- MIGRATION + BEVÖLKERUNGSWANDERUNG (INNENPOLITIK) --- ENERGIEBEDARF + ENERGIENACHFRAGE --- GLOBAL CHANGE + KLIMAERWÄRMUNG (KLIMATOLOGIE) --- KLIMAPOLITIK (UMWELTPOLITIK) --- INTERNATIONALE KONFLIKTE + KONFLIKTLÖSUNG (INTERNATIONALE POLITIK) --- DESTRUCTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT + CATASTROPHES ÉCOLOGIQUES --- ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION + ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS --- DESTRUCTION ET PROTECTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT, SCIENCES DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT --- DESTRUCTION AND SAFEGUARD OF THE ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES --- SCIENCES SOCIALES DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT, SOCIOLOGIE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT --- ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCES, ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY --- CONFLITS ENVIRONNEMENTAUX (POLITIQUE INTÉRIEURE) --- ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS (INTERNAL POLITICS) --- RÉFUGIÉS ENVIRONNEMENTAUX (POLITIQUE) --- ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES (POLITICS) --- ADVERSE EFFECTS ON HUMAN BEINGS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DETERIORATION (ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE) --- ATTEINTES À L'ENVIRONNEMENT/NÉFASTES À L'HOMME (MÉDECINE ENVIRONNEMENTALE) --- JUSTICE (ETHICS) --- JUSTICE (ÉTHIQUE) --- SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND PROBLEM AREAS --- PROBLÈMES SOCIAUX ET DOMAINES DE PROBLÈMES SOCIAUX --- MIGRATION + POPULATION MOVEMENTS (INTERNAL POLITICS) --- MIGRATION + MOUVEMENT DE LA POPULATION (POLITIQUE INTÉRIEURE) --- ENERGY REQUIREMENT --- BESOINS EN ÉNERGIE --- GLOBAL CHANGE + GLOBAL WARMING (CLIMATOLOGY) --- CHANGEMENT GLOBAL + RÉCHAUFFEMENT CLIMATIQUE (CLIMATOLOGIE) --- CLIMATE POLICY (ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY) --- POLITIQUE DU CLIMAT (POLITIQUE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT) --- INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS + RESOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS (INTERNATIONAL POLITICS) --- CONFLITS INTERNATIONAUX + RESOLUTION DES CONFLITS (POLITIQUE INTERNATIONALE) --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- Maatschappelijk werk ; ethiek --- 504 --- UMWELTZERSTÖRUNG + UMWELTKATASTROPHEN. --- UMWELTZERSTÖRUNG UND UMWELTSCHUTZ, UMWELTWISSENSCHAFTEN. --- UMWELTSOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN, UMWELTSOZIOLOGIE. --- UMWELTKONFLIKTE (INNENPOLITIK). --- UMWELTFLÜCHTLINGE (POLITIK). --- UMWELTBELASTUNG/AUSWIRKUNG AUF DEN MENSCHEN (UMWELTMEDIZIN). --- GERECHTIGKEIT (ETHIK). --- SOZIALE PROBLEME UND PROBLEMFELDER. --- MIGRATION + BEVÖLKERUNGSWANDERUNG (INNENPOLITIK). --- ENERGIEBEDARF + ENERGIENACHFRAGE. --- GLOBAL CHANGE + KLIMAERWÄRMUNG (KLIMATOLOGIE). --- KLIMAPOLITIK (UMWELTPOLITIK). --- INTERNATIONALE KONFLIKTE + KONFLIKTLÖSUNG (INTERNATIONALE POLITIK). --- DESTRUCTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT + CATASTROPHES ÉCOLOGIQUES. --- ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION + ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS. --- DESTRUCTION ET PROTECTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT, SCIENCES DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT. --- DESTRUCTION AND SAFEGUARD OF THE ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES. --- SCIENCES SOCIALES DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT, SOCIOLOGIE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT. --- ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCES, ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY. --- CONFLITS ENVIRONNEMENTAUX (POLITIQUE INTÉRIEURE). --- ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS (INTERNAL POLITICS). --- RÉFUGIÉS ENVIRONNEMENTAUX (POLITIQUE). --- ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES (POLITICS). --- ADVERSE EFFECTS ON HUMAN BEINGS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DETERIORATION (ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE). --- ATTEINTES À L'ENVIRONNEMENT/NÉFASTES À L'HOMME (MÉDECINE ENVIRONNEMENTALE). --- JUSTICE (ETHICS). --- JUSTICE (ÉTHIQUE). --- SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND PROBLEM AREAS. --- PROBLÈMES SOCIAUX ET DOMAINES DE PROBLÈMES SOCIAUX. --- MIGRATION + POPULATION MOVEMENTS (INTERNAL POLITICS). --- MIGRATION + MOUVEMENT DE LA POPULATION (POLITIQUE INTÉRIEURE). --- ENERGY REQUIREMENT. --- BESOINS EN ÉNERGIE. --- GLOBAL CHANGE + GLOBAL WARMING (CLIMATOLOGY). --- CHANGEMENT GLOBAL + RÉCHAUFFEMENT CLIMATIQUE (CLIMATOLOGIE). --- CLIMATE POLICY (ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY). --- POLITIQUE DU CLIMAT (POLITIQUE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT). --- INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS + RESOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS (INTERNATIONAL POLITICS). --- CONFLITS INTERNATIONAUX + RESOLUTION DES CONFLITS (POLITIQUE INTERNATIONALE). --- Ecologie --- Migratie --- Vluchtelingen --- Sociaal beleid --- PXL-Social Work 2015 --- sociale vraagstukken --- milieueffecten --- sociale economie --- klimaatverandering --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Sociaal werk (beroep)


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Storminess and Environmental Change : Climate Forcing and Responses in the Mediterranean Region
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ISBN: 940077947X 9400779488 Year: 2014 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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This book describes recent developments in the modeling of hydro-climatological processes in time and space. The topic brings together a wide range of disciplines, such as climatology, hydrology, geomorphology and ecology, with examples of problems and related modeling approaches. Parsimonious hydro-climatological models hold the potential to simulate the combined effects of rainfall intensity and distribution patterns in the absence of precipitation records for short time intervals (e.g. daily to sub-hourly) and over large areas (e.g. regional to continental). In this book, we show how the principle of parsimony can be followed without sacrificing depth in seeking to understand a variety of landscape and surface processes that include hydrologic phenomena. Geographically speaking, the focus of the book is on Mediterranean environments. In this region, which is characterized by a complex morphology, soil erosion by water is a major cause of landscape degradation and the fragility of ecosystems is abundantly documented. By exploring interactions between erosive storms and land with the help of modeling solutions created at a variety of scales, the book investigates in detail the climatic implications for the Mediterranean landscape in an effort to bridge historical and contemporary research, which makes it unique in its approach. The book provides a valuable resource for environmental scientists, while also providing an important basis for graduate and postgraduate students interested in research on hydrological cycles and environmental changes.

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Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects. --- Climatic changes -- Social aspects. --- Global environmental change. --- Storms -- Mediterranean Region. --- Storms --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- Global environmental change --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Earth sciences. --- Meteorology. --- Natural disasters. --- Physical geography. --- Computer simulation. --- Geographical information systems. --- Earth Sciences. --- Natural Hazards. --- Earth System Sciences. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Change --- Ecology --- Natural disasters --- Weather --- Geology. --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Aerology --- Atmospheric science --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region. --- Environmental conditions. --- CATASTROPHES NATURELLES + DANGERS NATURELS --- CHANGEMENT GLOBAL + RÉCHAUFFEMENT CLIMATIQUE (CLIMATOLOGIE) --- CLIMATE MODELS + PROXY DATA (CLIMATOLOGY) --- EROSION + CORROSION + WEATHERING (SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT) --- EROSION + KORROSION + VERWITTERUNG (ABLAGERUNGSMILIEU) --- GALES (METEOROLOGY) --- GLOBAL CHANGE + GLOBAL WARMING (CLIMATOLOGY) --- GLOBAL CHANGE + KLIMAERWÄRMUNG (KLIMATOLOGIE) --- ITALIE DU SUD --- KLIMAMODELLE + PROXY DATA (KLIMATOLOGIE) --- MEDITERRANEAN REGION (PHYSIOGEOGRAPHIC DESIGNATION) --- MITTELMEERGEBIET (PHYSIOGEOGRAPHISCHE ORTE) --- MODÈLES CLIMATOLOGIQUES + PROXY DATA (CLIMATOLOGIE) --- NATURAL HAZARDS + NATURAL CATASTROPHES --- NATURGEFAHREN + NATURKATASTROPHEN --- RÉGION MÉDITERRANÉENNE (LIEUX ET MILIEUX PHYSICO-GÉOGRAPHIQUES) --- SOUTHERN ITALY --- STÜRME (METEOROLOGIE) --- SÜDITALIEN --- TEMPÊTES (MÉTÉOROLOGIE) --- ÉROSION + CORROSION + ALTÉRATION (ENVIRONNEMENT SÉDIMENTAIRE) --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region

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