Community Service Perspectives on Climate Change and Social Justice in Western Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6416292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doreen Wijekoon (0000-0002-3362-4325, South West Aboriginal Medical Service), Naomi Joy Godden (0000-0001-9881-3365, Centre for People, Place and Planet and School of Arts and Humanities, corresponding author), Georgia Beardman (0000-0002-0971-4064, Centre for People, Place and Planet and School of Arts and Humanities) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 300-313 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0312-407X • E-ISSN: 1447-0748 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0312407x.2024.2329234 |
| OpenAlex | W4394960842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
Social workers increasingly recognise the relationship between social injustice and climate change, which is underpinned by oppressive systems of power such as colonialism, racism, capitalism, and patriarchy. Climate change exacerbates existing structural inequities, with disproportionately negative impacts on marginalised populations. In their work across diverse fields of social work practice, community service organisations (CSOs) have an important frontline role in supporting communities to mitigate and adapt to climate change. In the state of Western Australia (WA), a group of CSO leaders and university researchers commenced a feminist participatory action research (FPAR) program about climate justice and community services. In the first FPAR cycle, they undertook a survey, interviews, and workshops with CSO workers to examine social justice impacts of climate change in WA. CSO workers generally self-reported a low understanding of social justice and climate change. They identified climate impacts across themes of health, economic injustices, discrimination and access, housing and displacement, and gendered injustices. The authors contend that as climate change intensifies, CSOs must embed climate justice in their operations and services so that they might adequately prepare for, and respond to, the social justice impacts of climate change
Business · Climate change · Climate justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Service (business · Social justice · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Community Development and Social Impact · Law · Social Issues and Policies · Social Work · Ecology
Climate Justice in a Climate Changed World
Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research
Ecological grief as a mental health response to climate change-related loss
Thematic Analysis
Engaging with feminist postcolonial concerns through participatory action research and intersectionality
A review of Nyoongar responses to severe climate change and the threat of epidemic disease—Lessons from their past
Social (In)justice, climate change and climate policy in Western Australia
Women and adaptation
Feminist Participatory Action Research as a tool for climate justice
Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR)
Problems and possibilities on the margins
The role of culture and traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation
What is equitable resilience
Climate change through the lens of intersectionality
Critical climate justice
Climate change threats to family farmers' sense of place and mental wellbeing
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |