ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on social workers' roles in promoting environmental justice through a form of practice that the author have called green social work. It explores how disasters, including those generated by extreme weather events associated with climate change, aggravate vulnerabilities. Green social work as a form of practice rooted in enhancing the wellbeing of people and their environments becomes relevant to the realisation of environmental justice. Environmental injustice, or the failure to share the earth's resources equitably, is rooted in environmental degradation that is caused by the normal processes of industrialisation and disasters, whether natural or manmade. Green social workers base their interventions on the idea that nation-states that are currently members of the United Nations (UN) are already committed to environmental justice because each member state is responsible for providing resources that mitigate risk for citizens endeavouring to procure the necessities of life because they have signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
