This topical collection examines a wide variety of themes and topics which links the environment to social policy and welfare.

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• Represents the best current work on the realignment of social policy to confront environmental issues.
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• Presents a challenging socio-environmental agenda for social policy.
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• Examines a wide range of themes and topics which link the environment and social policy and welfare.

Dr Tony Fitzpatrick is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Nottingham.

Dr Michael Cahill lectures in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Brighton.