ABSTRACT
The social work curriculum needs serious development to cover disasters. In this chapter, we argue for the systematic inclusion of disaster risk reduction in it. We build upon what green social work (Dominelli, 2012) and other scholars emphasise when demanding the inclusion of environmental issues in social work (Dominelli, 2011; Kemp, 2011; Gray et al., 2013). We suggest that developing disaster risk reduction as embedded in green social work has strong potential to impact on mainstream disaster risk reduction because it strengthens interventions in the very processes that lead to disasters.
