Reimagining Macro Social Work to Advance Environmental Justice and Health Equity in the Climate Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21835157 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neena Albarus (University of California System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 189-196 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Work in Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1937-190X • E-ISSN: 1937-1918 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19371918.2025.2547006 |
| PMID | 40819387 |
| OpenAlex | W4413309232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 46 |
The climate crisis, which is currently recognized as a "threat multiplier" by the United Nations, exacerbates health disparities, deepens structural inequities, and often disproportionately affects marginalized communities globally. While social work values maintain a commitment to social justice, dignity and worth of the person and integrity, macro-level interventions remain constrained by national and neoliberal paradigms. These limitthe profession's capacity to address global and transnational challenges such as disaster capitalism, food insecurity, and the financialization and dispossession of essential resources. As the climate crisis deepens, macro social work should reconfigure its theoretical commitments and practical applications to center environmental justice and health equity. This paper discusses the limitations of macro social work in addressing climate-induced social and public health crises and proposes a reimagining of macro practice through intersectional and interdisciplinary lenses to interrogate the structural roots of these crises
Climate change · Climate justice · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental justice · Health care · Health equity · Political science · Social determinants of health · Sociology · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Law · Social Work
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Ubuntu philosophy, values, and principles
Understanding Ubuntu and its contribution to social work education in Africa and other regions of the world
Environmental Movements, Market-Based Approaches, and Neoliberalization
Sacrifice Zones
Social Work Perspectives on Climate Change and Vulnerable Populations in the Caribbean
Environmental injustice
More than a metaphor
Evolving Roles for International Social Work in Addressing Climate Change
Promoting activism through critical social work education
Privatizing climate adaptation
Race, Class and the Global Politics of Environmental Inequality
Social work and macro-economic neoliberalism
Decolonizing Social Work
Abolitionism and Ecosocial Work
Catastrophe bonds and financial risk
Methods for the Scientific Study of Discrimination and Health
The Violent Technologies of Extraction
Sustaining and Strengthening a Macro Identity
Decolonizing Pathways towards Integrative Healing in Social Work
Reckoning climate apartheid
The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality
The contours of environmental justice in the Caribbean
Against climate apartheid
La descolonización no es una metáfora
Indigenous Social Work around the World
Future of Macro Social Work
Necropolitics
Maroon Ecology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |