Religion, Climate Change and People on the Move: Latin America and South Asia

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel is concerned with climate-induced movements of people and the contributions of religion as an often overlooked but key factor in strategies of community adaptation and resilience, but also as part of public responses to the increase of climate refugees in Latin America and South Asia. In regional comparative terms, panelists consider changes in religious practice as a result of climate change, and religious responses to climate-related challenges contributing to social inequality, including glacial melt, declining agricultural productivity, displacement and rural to urban migration, reduced hydropower generation, and new stresses upon urban water systems.

Sub Track

• Religions and Spiritualities

Chair

• Evan Berry, American University

Individual Presentations

• Angry Gods and Raging Rivers: The Changing Climate of the Central Himalayas - David Haberman

• Andean Religious Responses to Climate Change and Human Displacement: The Case of Huaytapallana Mountain and Glacier - Teófilo Altamirano

• Socio-Cultural Anxieties Linked with Declining Cardamon Cultivation in the Eastern Himalayas - Mabel D Gergan

Discussant

• Robert D Albro, American University