ABSTRACT
Green social work has transformative potential. It can encourage community residents to change their behaviour and develop more resilient and sustainable pathways to sustainability. The increasing complexities of global environmental crises in terms of numbers affected, frequency and impact on people's physical, social, cultural and political environments have challenged professional social work practice. L. Dominelli suggests five key processes of practice areas that social workers can undertake in carrying out their tasks during disaster interventions. The five key processes are Consciousness-raising, Advocating and lobbying, Mobilising communities, Dialoguing with residents, policymakers, and the media, and Challenging. Social work curriculum development, like any other, is a political process. The social work curriculum may be a prescriptive statement, specified by the professional association or a government body in a particular country. Green social work has been significant in introducing new issues into professional social work's debates about the environment.
