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What is Social Work With Women

Chapter 11
Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development
It is a specific application area of social work that focuses on the position and relations of women in society, points out structural inequalities, produces information, services and policies for increasing women's welfare and solving women's problems.
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Being a Rural Woman During Climate Change: An Analysis Based on the Concept of Ubuntu
Bilge Abukan (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey), Kübranur Görmüş (Maltepe University, Turkey), and Filiz Yildirim (Ankara University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9099-0.ch011
Abstract
Climate change affects all living things, and especially women in rural areas. Focusing on human-environment interaction, ubuntu offers a holistic perspective to interventions to reduce the destructive effects of not only the social environment but also the physical environment. The main purpose of the present study is to evaluate the impact of climate change on the lives of rural women with a bio-psycho-social perspective, in the focus of ubuntu philosophy, and offer social work intervention suggestions.
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