Effecting Environmental Change: The Challenges of Transnational Environmental Faith-based Organizations

• Main Authors: Lee, Deborah, Kong, Lily
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Embeddedness; Environment; Faith-based organization; Social capital; Transnational; Trust; Asian Studies; Environmental Studies; Place and Environment; Urban Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1777
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This chapter focuses on the relationship between religion and environmental action by analyzing a transnational environmental faith-based organization (FBO) and how it seeks to establish a national movement to support environmental protection and change in a new country. Our underlying premises are...