El Trabajo Social y la dimensión ambiental

Abstract

The intervention - investigation of the Social Work in the environmental dimension is an area of the knowledge and an ethical - political imperative. In this paper are explained the arguments that base that relation and are presented some challenges that raise these two connotations. For it, the writing emphasizes the need that has the profession to value multiple forms of expression of human life and not human life, resulting of the socio-environmental correlations in diverse scenarios. The approach of some challenges allow to elucidate the immense possibilities that the Social Work has of thinking the environment as an articulatory category in the professional activity. The challenges proposed for the profession are framed in the theoretical and methodological approach of the political ecology and in the concept of sustainability in the environmental dimension. Likewise, the reflection calls on to consider analytical and practical categories of conflict and environmental education for the critical and reflexive action of the relations culture - nature, collective management for the access to natural resources, and finally patrimonial conception of the nature.