Lena Dominelli holds a Chair in Applied Social Sciences in the School of Applied Social Sciences and is Co-Director at the Institute of Hazards, Risk and Resilience Research at Durham University where she has particular responsibility for work on vulnerability and resilience. She has held major large projects including those funded by the United Kingdom Research Councils - the ESRC ('Internationalising Institutional and Professional Practices'), EPSRC ('Climate Change, the Built Infrastructure and Health and Social Care Provisions for Older People'), and NERC (Earthquakes without Frontiers); and DfID (Department of International Development) and Wellcome Trust (Health Interventions during Volcanic Eruptions).

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Green Social Work, a New Direction for Social Work (Lena Dominelli); Introduction: Why Green Social Work (Lena Dominelli, Bala Raju Nikki and Hok Bun Ku); Part I. Green Social Work Theory; Scene Setting Section; Chapter 1: Green Social Work: Reconfiguring the Environmental Landscape in Social Work as a Transdisciplinary Endeavour (Lena Dominelli); Chapter 2: Transdisciplinary Collaboration between Physical and Social Scientists: Drawing on the Experiences of an Advisor to Earthquakes without Frontiers (EwF) (Peter Sammonds); Chapter 3: Disasters, Health Impacts and the Value of Implementing the 'Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015-2030' (Virginia Murray, Lorcan Clarke and Rishma Maini); Theory into Practice Section; Chapter 4: Work in Disasters: Experiences in the United Kingdom (David N Jones); Chapter 5: Rebuilding Lives Post-Disaster: Innovative Community Practices for Sustainable Development (Julie Drolet, Haorui Wu, Robin Ersing, Margaret Alston, Desley Hargreaves, Yenyi Huang, Chao Hsing Huang and Golam Mathbor); Chapter 6: Green Social Work for Environmental Justice: Implications for International Social Workers (Meredith C.F. Powers, Jennifer Willett, John Mathias, and Anna Hayward); Part II. Natural Disasters; Chapter 7: Promoting Public Interest Design: The transformative change toward green social work during post-Ya'an earthquake reconstruction and recovery in Sichuan China (Haorui Wu); Chapter 8: Developing Community Solidarity in the Context of an Earthquake Disaster; (Rosemary A. Barbera); Chapter 9: A Social Work Response to Himalayan Disasters: Insights from Green Social; (Bala Raju Nikku); Chapter 10: Dissecting a Himalayan Disaster, Finding Pathways (Adusumalli Malathi).