Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents the theoretical and practical platforms for Environmental Social Work or Green social work. It provides lots of ideas about how social work has developed the profession in different forms of Disaster Management related to manmade or natural disasters around the world. The book focuses on what disaster management means, both theoretically and practically, for different disasters in different parts of the world. It presents two contributions from different parts of the world, namely: First Nation Lakota, and Sarangadhar Samal. The book presents an enterprise development project in collaboration with remote indigenous communities in Australia. It also presents a design for a global access education model using technology to connect both urban and rural universities from six continents: Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe and Oceania, South and North America.