Nature as nurturer: A person-as-environment approach to disaster recovery

Conference paper presented at the National Rural Remote Social Work Conference, Inverloch, Victoria, Australian Association of Social Workers 2013. The paper outlines a 'person-as-environment' approach to bushfire recovery. It draws upon the concepts of solastalgia and soliphilia to encourage personal and community reflection with the aim of assisting people to restore a sense of home, place and identity in a vastly changed landscape