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Social Work, Sustainable Development and Global Practice Concentration
- University of Denver (CO)
Humans need an ecological understanding of their place in the natural environment to promote personal health and well-being, environmental awareness, sense of belonging in a community, sustainability, resilience and advocacy ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Social Work and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Student Placement Model
- RMIT University
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a blueprint to address urgent global challenges, with a clear role for social workers. This paper explores a Sustainable Development Goal’s ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Using a Sustainability Framework to Advance Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)
Accredited social work programs in the U.S. train students to advance "social, economic, and environmental justice" (CSWE, 2020). Often, however, the curriculum addresses each type of justice independently, as ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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An exploratory study of students’ perceptions of environmental issues as social work practice and their understanding of environmental justice
- Boise State University (ID)
- Indiana University
As environmental crises continue to rise, the profession of social work in the US is being called to incorporate environmental justice content in the training and education of social workers ...
- Posted Feb. 19, 2021
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Environmental Issues and Social Work Education
- Universidad Católica del Maule (Maule)
Environmental issues have been well-documented in recent years, paying particular attention to the anthropogenic climate change impact. To date, research addressing the relationship between environmental issues, environmental justice and sustainability ...
- Posted March 6, 2020
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RESPONDING TO THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS: TRANSFORMATIVE PATHWAYS FOR SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
- James Cook University (Queensland)
The nature and extent of the current ecological crisis raises the question: Does social work have a contribution to make in addressing the social and environmental changes required if we ...
- Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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The relationship between social work and environmental sustainability: Implications for interdisciplinary practice
- City University of New York, College of Staten Island (NY)
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
The Brundtland Commission, formally the World Commission on Environment and Development, established by the United Nations in 1983, links peace, security, development and the environment claiming that war, poverty and ...
- Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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Case Studies in Sustainable Social Work: MSW Students Explore Principles in Practice
- Portland State University (OR)
- University of Portland (OR)
In 1999, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) in the United States published a policy statement on the environment that acknowledged the social work profession’s apparent “lack of ...
- Posted Feb. 20, 2017
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