A concern for eco-social sustainability: .... Eco-social work is a new field of social work practice and research. The discussions about nature, ecology, environment, sustainable development, and indigenous eco-social knowledge gradually became a new direction for social work localization.
Ontology, cognition, and practice as the framework of analysis, eco-social work is a holistic transformation of traditional social work (Boetto, 2017 ). Eco-social work will become an important field of practice and research direction for the globalization and localization of social work in the future. 3. The concept and values of eco-social work
As complex challenges like climate change and inequality become increasingly salient, eco-social policies are emerging as suitable public policy instruments to pursue integrated environmental and social objectives.
Second, the concepts of eco-social work, green social work, environmental social work, and sustainable social work share the same concern: sustainability, but eco-social work is more concerned with sustainability using indigenous eco-social knowledge.