Building Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of the Lutheran Church in Southern Madagascar: Research Article
Religions play a crucial role in driving behavioral transformation towards harmony with nature. Consequently, faith-based organizations have increasingly taken an interest in addressing climate change and promoting environmental sustainability, with ecotheology and environmental initiatives gaining...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Religion & development
Year: 2025, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-95 |
| Further subjects: | B
Famine
B asset-based community development B climate change adaptation B Madagascar B locally-led development |
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| Summary: | Religions play a crucial role in driving behavioral transformation towards harmony with nature. Consequently, faith-based organizations have increasingly taken an interest in addressing climate change and promoting environmental sustainability, with ecotheology and environmental initiatives gaining prominence over the past decade. Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to vulnerable communities, particularly those in rural Madagascar, which grapple with increasing climatic variability and extreme weather events. This study investigates faith-based and asset-based initiatives and projects for climate change adaptation in Southern Madagascar, which the UN declared the world’s first climate-induced famine area in 2021. The aim is to make visible the small-scale projects and activities for climate change mitigation in an area with frequent droughts and periods of famine and to give voice to local actors in the field. The study demonstrates that by leveraging local assets, knowledge, and capacities, some congregations of the Lutheran Church in Madagascar (FLM) seek to empower communities to proactively address climate-induced vulnerabilities. The findings of this study offer practical insights for policymakers, practitioners, faith-based organizations, and development agencies seeking to promote climate resilience in rural Madagascar and similar contexts through locally-led development activities. |
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| ISSN: | 2750-7955 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & development
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30965/27507955-20230047 |
