Green Social Work Environmental Analysis

Kemp (2011 cited in Alston 2013, p. 218) stated that social workers have been seriously absent from areas where policy and practice of environment and climate disaster are determined although social work’s focus on social justice and human rights (Alston 2013). This claim also supported by Zapf (2010 cited in Alston 2010, p.219), Zapf argues that social work has not paid attention to the physical environment in the 20th century, but importantly focused on the social environment, social networks and relations within which people operate. Dominelli (2014) states that social work has not been quick to respond to the challenges that posed by environmental crises and considered for ensuring environmental injustices as problems of the physical sciences.
Dominelli (2014) argues that social work educators and practitioners have a crucial role in developing and sustaining an environmental justice that supports human based rights and in warranting those concerns are included in curriculum of social
Bullard (2000 [1990] cited in Dominelli 2014, p.339) was the first sociologist of sociological groups to coin the imbalance impact in environmental degradation on the poor and its role in promoting injustice due to industrial waste put down on the poor people. Ungar (2002 cited in Dominelli 2014, p.339) introduced the environmental justice concept for a sake of environmental safeguard into social work practice. Furthermore, Dominelli (2012a, 2013 cited Dominelli 2014, p.339) defines environmental injustice as a failure of society to warrant the fair distribution of the Earth’s resources in meeting the needs of human that results in well-being of the people in the earth at present and in the future. Thus, the current model of development of industry is “ not fit for the purpose” and social workers come to play through encouraging environmental justice and organizing and mobilising people in meeting the needs of humans “ without costing the earth” (Dominelli 2007,