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The establishment and integrating the ecological issues into public health have been gestating

for decades, receptivity within broader public health has been limited.
This position is changing at least by emerging from theory and forecasting into daily reality.
An important role in this may have the social workers not only because of their duty to deal
with aftermath and they can be an important link between the policies and community. A link
between those two opposing camps: the 'sceptics' and the 'greens' (Giddens, 2009). In this
connection is not their role of taking part of any of those camps, but is important for them to
have the knowledge in engaging with the complex arguments and realities around climate
change. Arguments which can be used in both way in one way of counselling those suffering
loss and grief and in the other way to bring the right information to those which can help in
diminishing the impacts. Bringing the information to the right people is as important for the
social workers as it is develop their skills of mediation in order to bring the groups in dispute
together.
Climate change is expected to have a differentiated impact on countries as extreme weather
events increase in frequency, produce climate change refugees and subject people in the
poorest nations to increase risk flooding when the sea levels rise as weather gets wetter or
drought where it becomes warmer and drier [United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), 2007, 2008].

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