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Social Work and Sustainability in Asia: Facing the Challenges of Global Environmental Changes - Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies by Iris Chi Details

The rapid trend of globalization has brought a variety of sustainability challenges, including global climate change, loss of biodiversity, poverty and social inequality, problems with unclear boundaries, complex interrelated components,…

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The rapid trend of globalization has brought a variety of sustainability challenges, including global climate change, loss of biodiversity, poverty and social inequality, problems with unclear boundaries, complex interrelated components, indeterminate parameters, conflicting values, and no single solution. Social work has an ancient tradition of emphasizing the interaction of people and their environment.

For this reason, social work is one of the best academic systems to study the impact of environmental change on social systems and must play an important role in developing strategies to mitigate and adapt to these environmental challenges. However, traditional social work tends to perpetuate work and neglect global interrelated social problems. Combining case studies and country reports from across Asia and the Pacific with a theoretical framework for understanding sustainability concerns, this book aims to demonstrate how social work can play a valuable role in mitigating and adapting to environmental challenges and social sustainability. In order for social action to evolve into a viable meaning and occupation that addresses contemporary sustainability issues, it requires changes and transformations in the model, theories, strategies, social policy and social services that will facilitate a sustainable future for all humankind..



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