This document discusses the connection between ecosystems, ecology, and social work. It notes that ecosystems consist of living and non-living things that function together in an area, and that organisms and environments are interdependent. However, humans have overused environments, harming ecosystems. Ecology studies relationships between organisms and their physical environments, while social work uses the person-in-environment framework to understand environmental threats to human well-being. For social work to fully understand individuals, groups and communities, it must consider environmental impacts and changing relationships in societies to help maintain balance.
This document discusses the connection between ecosystems, ecology, and social work. It notes that ecosystems consist of living and non-living things that function together in an area, and that organisms and environments are interdependent. However, humans have overused environments, harming ecosystems. Ecology studies relationships between organisms and their physical environments, while social work uses the person-in-environment framework to understand environmental threats to human well-being. For social work to fully understand individuals, groups and communities, it must consider environmental impacts and changing relationships in societies to help maintain balance.
This document discusses the connection between ecosystems, ecology, and social work. It notes that ecosystems consist of living and non-living things that function together in an area, and that organisms and environments are interdependent. However, humans have overused environments, harming ecosystems. Ecology studies relationships between organisms and their physical environments, while social work uses the person-in-environment framework to understand environmental threats to human well-being. For social work to fully understand individuals, groups and communities, it must consider environmental impacts and changing relationships in societies to help maintain balance.
The ecosystem and ecology are connected. Ecosystem is the
dependent of organisms in their environment and vice versa. If there’s no organisms there’s no someone to manage the environment and if there’s no environment there will be no existing organisms because organisms needs environment to live longer in an area. Ecosystem consists of all of the living and non-living things functioning together in an area. And human are those have a great demand on the environment. Our resources are from our environment. We get more benefits from the environment. And sometimes organisms needs to adjust according to the environment to maintain the balance of relationship of each other. Human grow and developed according in their environment. Human developed the identity and norms of everyone that we must maintain and stay connected on how they are benefits with their environment. But sad to say that human overused the environment. And today, the environment is no longer safe. The ecosystem got worst.
Ecology created to study the relations of organisms to one
another and their physical environment. To study on how organisms working with each other and on how they used their physical environment.
As a social work profession, we used PIE or Person-in-
Environment to understand the environmental threats to human well being. As you noticed, that human are no longer sustained the natural world. Maybe, because human got changed, the values and the approaches are no longer maintained. And the social work created to expect to help human and their behavior towards with their environment. So, ecology and social work must stick together to get deeper understanding on what happening on the human and with their environment. To help shape the view of the world, on how they think, and responding with it.
Despite in our experiences it is connected with our
environment. So, studying the bio-psycho-social functioning of an individual, groups, and communities it must look further on the environment of every one that gives impact themselves. To look the changing relationship in our society. And to signify the important role of everyone for the equilibrium. Applying this concept, social work will understand the on how the system affects individuals.