Abstract
Environmental justice concerns affect rural communities and the people who are members of them. Social workers’ long-standing involvement in improving living conditions of the people and communities with whom they work make environmental justice an important responsibility. Yet there is a rural-urban divide on topics related to the environment, and rural and urban communities tend to establish different environmental priorities. Rural communities tend to prioritize local conditions and solutions over global and societal ones. Rural people distrust national policies especially those established by governmental as not being responsive to their interest. Some common environmental rural problems are identified. Environmental justice intervention for rural social workers should involve humility in understanding the local culture, judicious use of language, and involvement of local people in environmental assessments and interventions.
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Daley, Michael R.
(2020)
"Stinky Water and Other Ills: Environmental Justice for Rural Services,"
Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal: Vol. 12:
No.
1, Article 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.61611/2165-4611.1216
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/crsw/vol12/iss1/1