Green social work within integrated coastal zone management

Worlds apart! Environmental injustices in Mauritius, Peru and Sweden

“…In essence, GSW aims to protect the environment and enhance the well-being of individuals, groups and communities by analysing and addressing prevailing oppressions, structural inequalities and the unequal distribution of power and resources. In this way, by standing up for EJ, GSW further promotes the central identity of social work as a liberating and emancipatory profession (Rambaree and Rock, 2018).…”

“…Over the past few years, all around Mauritius there has been growing public discontent regarding such types of property development programmes (Ramtohul, 2016). For instance, some sections of the Mauritian population are becoming increasingly worried about 'Mauritius being sold to foreigners', and representatives from coastal communities are anxious about the increasing number of privately owned gated communities that are blocking access to the beach for local people (Rambaree and Rock, 2018).…”

“…Within this context, Dominelli (2012) proposes GSW as an essential theoretical perspective and approach in social work. GSW obliges social workers to intervene for the cause of justice within its transformative politics and practice (Dominelli, 2012;Rambaree and Rock, 2018). In essence, GSW aims to protect the environment and enhance the well-being of individuals, groups and communities by analysing and addressing prevailing oppressions, structural inequalities and the unequal distribution of power and resources.…”