O debate ambiental no serviço social: construindo novos caminhos ou reatualizando velhos paradigmas?

Abstract

The environmental theme is configured in an arena of conflict and consensus as well. An area full of heterogeneities whose diversity of ideas and interests makes it a challenging and exciting field of knowledge and professional performance. With the emergency of this theme in the global scenario, that international agencies greatly contributed to its spread, there is an increasing interest in the subject, which raises various discussions among which stands the debate on environmental sustainability which proposal would be able to combine growth economic, environmental preservation and social development. However, this proposal appears to be inconsistent and incoherent with the development model established and engendered by the capitalist society, in which the forms of exploitation and predatory domination imposed to the nature and to the men a relation of inequality both social and environmental. Closely related, conditioned and determined by the relations of production and reproduction proper by the characteristic of capitalist economic and social system, the environmental theme has close links with social issues, becoming even as a refraction of this. As a professional who works in the manifestations of Social Issues, the Social Worker is absorbing knowledge on environmental issues related to their field of knowledge and action, and both his remarks and his understanding on this problematic will become even more skilled as they are the established discussions on the subject. This research aimed to know how the discussion on the environmental issue was inserted in the field of interest of social services, identifying key themes, the institutions where this debate was more present and theoretical influences absorbed. The aim of this study was to provide a reflection on the ways that has been traversed and paths within the profession about this issue.