NDLI: Environmental health hazards on industrial disasters: a study on how to achieve community-level social support

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Boodram, Cheryl Ann Sarita Johnson, Emmanuel Janagan
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Efforts to prevent and mitigate the effects of disasters have largely emerged from the fields of science and human geography. However, social work has long been a profession aimed at the restoration and enhancement of individual and community social functioning. This article argues for the integration of social work in disaster prevention and mitigation efforts. The primary goal of this study is to explore how members of a community experience an oil spill and to take a critical look at the potential benefits of integrating social work practice in disaster mitigation efforts with this community. The study showed that community-level social work interventions can fill the existing gaps in disaster mitigation by providing the mechanism that facilitates the practice of knowledge exchange in environmental management disaster situations. The study also suggests the need to include a social work focus on building community social capital, including training of community responders to provide support and intermediary services with disaster response coordinators. The article re-enforces the need for a more structural approach to social work practice in the mitigation and management of industrial disasters as well as in building the political capital of communities to affect policies. The authors provide few recommendations to integrate social work methods into the field of health hazard.
Starting Page	109
Ending Page	120
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0921030X
Journal	Natural Hazards
Volume Number	84
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15730840
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-06-02
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Health hazards Environmental disasters Social work Community social support Disaster mitigation Natural Hazards Hydrogeology Geophysics/Geodesy Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Civil Engineering Environmental Management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Atmospheric Science Water Science and Technology

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