Urban air pollution, meanwhile, knows no boundaries. In countries like the Solomon Islands, community relocation has already begun as sea levels rise with climate change and historical development patterns become unsustainable (Albert et al., 2016). Since 1880, global average temperature has increased by 0.85° Celsius, resulting in sea level rise, land change, flooding, drought, or other weather extremes in every region of the world (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2014). Examples include climate change, air pollution, and freshwater decline. Global environmental change refers to wide-scale transformations in the natural environment that are due, at least in part, to human activity. There is a need for intervention research on global environmental change-with more rigorous methods of outcome measurement-by social work scholars. Conclusions: Scholars should diversify the topics and global settings that they study, and they should proactively engage with populations and systems before a crisis. Many described consequences or coping with change, and although more than 1/3 of studies examined a formal response/intervention, rigorous outcomes-focused research is lacking. About 1/3 of studies examined hurricanes and typhoons, and most were conducted in U.S., Canadian, or Asian contexts. Results: We identified 112 studies for inclusion. Descriptive statistics and cross tabulations were run in SPSS 23. We extracted practice/policy implications as a subgroup. From included studies, we extracted publication year, country setting, global environmental change topic(s), explicit/implicit examination of global environmental change, research design, and study focus. Inclusion criteria were: (a) published since Janu(b) published in a peer-reviewed journal (c) empirical (d) is social work research and (e) examines at least one topic related to global environmental change. Method: We searched 5 electronic databases and selected issues/articles for “social work” plus a list of global environmental change topics. This scoping review assesses the state of empirical social work research on global environmental change to identify an agenda for advancing social work research and practice in this area. Objective: Social workers can help mitigate the human consequences of global environmental change but need an evidence base for appropriate response strategies.
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