Introduction
A professional crisis within social and environmental calamities
Reclaiming industrialization and urbanization for people
Industrial pollution, environmental degradation and people's resilience
Climate change, renewable energy and solving social problems
Environmental crises, social conflict and mass migrations
Environmental degradation, natural disasters and marginalization
Scarce natural resources and inter-country conflict resolution
Interrogating worldviews : from unsustainable to sustainable ways of reframing peoples' relationships to living environments
Conclusions : green social work.