Social work and the environment : understanding people and place
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| Language: | English |
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Toronto, Ontario :
Canadian Scholar's Press ,
c2009
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: the environment, social work, and ecological thinking
- 2. Smoke and mirrors: How the environment became the social environment
- 3. False starts and sputterings : partial efforts to include the physical environment
- 4. Clearing space in the conceptual brambles: incorporating the physical environment
- 5. Rural/remote social work: environmental context and place
- 6. Environment as sacred: spirituality, deep ecology and aboriginal perspectives
- 7. International social work: environment, development and sustainability
- 8. Perspectives from other disciplines: the environment and a sense of place
- 9. Language and disfluency: expressing the environment in social work
- 10. People as place