| Description |
229 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 15 INTRODUCTION: The Environment, Social Work, and -- Ecological Thinking -- 15 The Environmental Imperative and Social Work -- 18 Author and Voice -- 22 Organization of the Book -- 24 Thinking Ecologically -- 25 CHAPTER ONE: Smoke and Mirrors: How the Environment -- Became the Social Environment -- 26 The Effect: Personal Observations of the Vanished -- Environment -- 28 Beginnings: Lighting the Match -- 29 The 198os and 199os: Still Smokin' -- 32 The 200ooos: Illusion Reaffirmed -- 36 Variations on the Illusion -- 41 CHAPTER TWO: False Starts and Sputterings: Partial Efforts to -- Include the Physical Environment -- 42 The Physical Environment as Window Dressing -- 44 The Physical Environment Limited to Agency or Client -- Environs -- 46 Diagrams and the Disappearing Physical Environment -- 49 Assessment and the Absent Physical Environment -- 54 Case Studies: Physical Environment as a Rural -- Consideration -- 56 Environmentalist or Social Worker? -- 59 CHAPTER THREE: Clearing Space in the Conceptual Brambles: -- Incorporating the Physical Environment -- 60 Beginnings -- 62 Mid-g99os Forum -- 67 Environment as Central -- 73 Place and Space in Social Work -- 79 CHAPTER FOUR: Rural/Remote Social Work: Environmental -- Context and Place -- 80o Rurality and Rural Social Work -- 83 Divergent Paths for Rural Social Work -- 86 A Personal Example from the Northern Canadian Context -- 87 Remote Practice -- 89 A Sense of Place -- 93' CHAPTER FIVE: Environment as Sacred: Spirituality, Deep -- Ecology, and Aboriginal Perspectives -- 94 Spirituality and Social Work -- 95 Spirituality and the Environment: Smoke and Mirrors -- Again? -- 98 Spiritual Interventions and the Environment -- ioo Deep Ecology -- 104 Aboriginal Social Work: Traditional Knowledge, the Land, -- and Identity -- "II3 CHAPTER SIX: International Social Work: Environment, -- Development, and Sustainability -- 114 International Social Work and Global Environmental -- Citizenship -- n6 Development and the Environment -- II9 International Voices for Sustainable Development -- 121 International Social Work Organizations: Glimpses of the -- Environment -- 129 CHAPTER SEVEN: Perspectives from Other Disciplines: Ihe -- Environment and a Sense of Place -- 130 Painting: Encounters with Landscape -- 132 Film: Telling a Place -- 133 Music: Soundscapes and Expressions of Locality -- 135 Viticulture: Terroir and Place Value -- 137 Sociology: Habitus and Embodied Sense of Place -- 139 Psychology: Environments, Place, and Behaviour -- 141 Environmental Design: Placemaking and Positive Space -- 144 Geography: Earthkeeping and Places that Matter -- 15o Education: Wayfinding and Living Well in Place -- 156 Summary: Place, Sustainability, and Multidisciplinary -- Efforts -- 159 CHAPTER EIGHT: Language and Disfluency: Expressing the -- Environment in Social Work -- i6o Visual Cues: Punctuation and Capitalization -- 163 Language and Limitations -- 171 Prepositions and Propositions -- 175 Disfluency and Environmental Discourse -- 179 CHAPTER NINE: People as Place -- i80o Reclaiming the Environment: Recognizing Place and -- Stewardship -- 185 Models and Metaphors: Retiring "Person-in-Environment" -- i88 "People as Place": A Foundation Metaphor for Social Work -- 190 Social Purpose: Living Well in Place -- 191 Implications -- 195 REFERENCES |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-229) |
| Subject |
Environmental degradation -- Social aspects.
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Human ecology.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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Social service.
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| LC no. |
2009397672 |
| ISBN |
9781551303574 (paperback) |
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