- Title
- Ecosocial work: reflections from the global south
- Creator
- Alston, Margaret
- Relation
- The Ecosocial Transition of Societies: The Contribution of Social Work and Social Policy p. 91-104
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315615912
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Introduction The frequency and intensity of catastrophic climate-induced disasters demonstrates a critical need for new ways of understanding the interaction between people and their environments. Climate-induced disasters result from climate change emanating from the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere causing global warming (IPCC 2007). While all countries are affected in some way, it is arguable that many countries in the global south are more vulnerable not only because of their environmental fragility, but also because of social factors that shape the capacity of people and communities to mitigate the worst effects of these challenges. Despite this region being amongst the most vulnerable to climate induced disasters, many global south countries are amongst those least likely to have contributed to global warming through the production of greenhouse gases. It is this imbalance between the major emitting countries in the north and those low-emitting, but highly vulnerable, countries in the south that has created one of the major global tensions of our time.
- Description
- 1st ed.
- Subject
- climate induced disasters; people and their environments; greenhouse gases
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1442377
- Identifier
- uon:41669
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781472473493
- Language
- eng
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