This ground-breaking new work provides a detailed and extensive comparison of how the physical environment has been conceptualized in social work and other professions, and offers a new and attractive foundational metaphor for social work. The author acknowledge the need for greater awareness and action regarding environmental impacts and book promotes more comprehensive notions of responsibility, identity, and stewardship that lead to a dynamic metaphor of people as place as the foundation for relevant social work practice in the early 21st Century. Why is it that a profession with a declared focus on “person-in-environment” has been so silent on the environmental crisis?