Social work establishes a strong link with the environment and sustainable development, as a profession and as an academic discipline. The growing complexity of the actual context leads us to the search for alternatives, skills and a competence to manage the theoretical-practical process, related to the attempt of decipher and understand the reality in constant movement, in the tendencies and possibilities that are placed to our field of action. Bringing ecological issues and concerns into the vison of students and professionals gives the opportunity, to promote a network of studies, systematize recommendations, and develop theoretical and scientific frames to support the practice. This implies the exercise and acquisition of cognitive, theoretical, analytical and communication skills, as well as of social responsibility indispensable to the analysis and action on the problems and the construction of knowledge from the practice and for the practice. For social work education, this will involve working towards creating opportunities for students to develop an expanded ecological consciousness, one that sees their profession as an important part of a broader movement towards sustainability.

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Sustainability,Ecology,Social and Human Development

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