All Outputs (4)

Not only Eating Together: Space and Green Social Work Intervention in Hazard-Affected Area in Ya’an, Sichuan, China (2017)
Journal Article
Ku, H. B., & Dominelli, L. (2018). Not only Eating Together: Space and Green Social Work Intervention in Hazard-Affected Area in Ya’an, Sichuan, China. The British Journal of Social Work, 48(5), 1409-1431. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx071

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Lushan county of Ya’an city, Sichuan Province, China, on 20 April 2013. The Lushan earthquake damage is less than the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake’s, where 70,000 houses collapsed and 2 million people across nineteen prefec... Read More about Not only Eating Together: Space and Green Social Work Intervention in Hazard-Affected Area in Ya’an, Sichuan, China.

Green social work and its implications for social development in China (2017)
Journal Article
Dominelli, L., & Ku, H. (2017). Green social work and its implications for social development in China. China Journal of Social Work, 10(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/17525098.2017.1300338

Green social work has been significant in introducing new issues into environmental debates and increasing its centrality to social work practice. These have included: the mainstreaming of environmental considerations; a widening of the theoretical a... Read More about Green social work and its implications for social development in China.

Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England (2017)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Oven, K., Wistow, J., Dunn, C., & Dominelli, L. (2018). Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36(1), 67-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654417695101

Our findings contribute to a growing international literature on how conceptual models from complexity theory may be relevant to inform planning in health and social care systems, helping to adapt and improve preparedness and resilience to extreme we... Read More about Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England.

Social Work Challenges in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: Against the Bias (2017)
Journal Article
Dominelli, L. (2017). Social Work Challenges in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: Against the Bias. Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work, 32(1), 105-107. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109916681390

This article considers the challenges 21st-century social workers face and focuses specifically on that of racism including Islamophobia and structural inequalities in the society generally. It argues that social workers have the knowledge, skills, a... Read More about Social Work Challenges in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: Against the Bias.