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Category Archives: social work
Chemical Exposures, Health, and Environmental Justice in Communities Living on the Fenceline of Industry
Recent Findings “More people are living near oil and gas development due to the expansion of unconventional extraction techniques as well as near industrial animal operations, both with suggestive evidence of increased exposure to hazardous pollutants and adverse health effects. Legacy contamination continues to adversely impact a new generation of residents in fenceline communities, withContinue reading “Chemical Exposures, Health, and Environmental Justice in Communities Living on the Fenceline of Industry”
Trauma, Environment, & Social Work
Respectively, Individuals must have access to safe spaces to navigate their natural environments. Due to elements of new technological advancements, adults and children are spending more time inside and less time outside. Maximise living space Therefore, built environments can also produce negative health risks when developers are not thinking about the effects of built spaces. InContinue reading “Trauma, Environment, & Social Work”
Macro/policy Practice Article
This Many Hands Not Need Eyes to See- I Write This Poem In Solidarity
We can do so much or so little.The button of these new overalls won’t fit.Produced, manufactured, stitched The hole is bound.Before binding we measure.The measure is susceptible to human error.yet, measures are not what they seem.Do you, or I, myself, know it wasn’t the fault of a machine. The button has force but only throughContinue reading “This Many Hands Not Need Eyes to See- I Write This Poem In Solidarity”
Global Public Goods(GPGs):Global Social Issue
Global Public Goods (GPGs) is a variable which serves global agendas due to the necessary use of Intellectual Knowledge house in GPGs as platforms for strategic building in developing countries. As social workers engage with international relations the profession must have access to the most recent research. Often research is housed by gatekeepers. Thus, GPGsContinue reading “Global Public Goods(GPGs):Global Social Issue”
Personal Stance(s) on Social Welfare and the Intersection of Economic and Political Philosophies
To provide further insight about my own social and cultural experiences -what serves as the driving force for my passions as a social worker is fueled by the discrepancies individuals face in regards to access- specifically that of which comes from the physical world; or Natural Environment. Having grown up in an upper middle classContinue reading “Personal Stance(s) on Social Welfare and the Intersection of Economic and Political Philosophies”
Who will win? Man or nature? A Timeless Question
There has been an attempt to turn an actual conversation, which at one point was modern, into some post-modern hype. The children protesting are not posing some satirical Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift, 1729) esque archetype. They are disturbed. The ongoing public conversation about the environment is grounded in the ancient dichotomy of man versus natureContinue reading “Who will win? Man or nature? A Timeless Question”
