ABSTRACT
Lijiang City in Southwestern China was struck by a serious earthquake in 1996. This chapter analyses the predicament of the Lashi Lake watershed communities in serving the development of tourism in Lijiang City. It examines the intervention strategies of the Green Watershed in Participatory Small Watershed Management Programme (PWM) and bottlenecks encountered and reformulate the PWM's implications for practice research as developmental social work turns towards green social work. Lijiang's development as a tourism city intensified the urban–rural bias in the redistribution of rights in natural resource management and further immiserised indigenous Naxi people living by the lake, initiating economic hardship and resistance. The PWM revealed that social work and development work complement each other on multi-dimensional levels within their working models to increase the resilience of communities in coping with ecological degradation and injustice, and can promote green social work.
