ABSTRACT
Disasters disrupt the functioning of communities, involving widespread human, health, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts. Disasters may result from natural or man-made causes, and have serious implications for health. This chapter seeks to link green social work and its implementation to the urgent need for disaster risk reduction that is so clearly articulated by the United Nations (UN) member states' voluntary adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 in UN General Assembly resolution. The UN has formally recognised the need to address the issues of disasters and their implications on social, health and environmental factors, and sustainable development over the last four decades with relevant instruments adopted at the General Assembly. A large body of research exists to support political and financial investment in the eradication and disruption of both the intergenerational transmission of poverty and the perpetuation of socioeconomic inequalities.
