Abstract: China’s environmental social work has developed rapidly in recent years, but on the whole, it is still in the stage of theory introduction and spontaneous practice. Promoting the method research at the mezzo-level has important theoretical research and practical guiding value. On the basis of summarizing the previous research results on the practical model, combined with the practical experience of the team, this paper attempts to build a general framework of the advocacy method of environmental social work: Object-Goal-Strategy-Tactic-Role; Using the method framework to analyze practical cases, it is considered that there are three target types of social work advocacy method to intervene in environmental and ecology: policy advocacy aimed at the government, action advocacy aimed at enterprises and consciousness advocacy aimed at the people. In different advocacy types, social workers use different strategies and specific tactics, assume different roles and intervene in the service objects, so as to promote the change of policies, the implementation of actions and the change of ideas, and finally promote environmental friendly behavior and promote the practice of ecological civilization.

Key words: environmental social work, social work advocacy, policy advocacy, action advocacy, consciousness advocacy