The religious beliefs held by individuals and/or communities influence the way they use and manage the resources in the environment.
Clearly religions have a central role in the formulation of worldviews that orient us to the natural world and the articulation of ethics that guide human behavior. The size and complexity of the problems we face require collaborative efforts both among the religions and in dialogue with other key domains of human endeavor. Religions, thus, need to be in conversation with sectors—science, economics, education, and public policy—that have addressed environmental issues. Environmental changes will be motivated by these disciplines in very specific ways: namely, economic incentives will be central to adequate distribution of resources, scientific analysis will be critical to understanding nature’s economy, educational awareness will be indispensable to creating modes of sustainable life, public policy recommendations will be invaluable in shaping national and international priorities, and moral and spiritual values will be crucial for the transformations required for life in an ecological age. (Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim).
Links below will put some more light on the topic. hope you find it useful.
http://dspace.nehu.ac.in/bitstream/1/6287/1/Sacred%20groves%20of%20Meghalaya%20(BK%20Tiwari).pdf
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2111617?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
http://www.betterthanfaith.com/articles/religion-and-the-environment
https://acton.org/public-policy/environmental-stewardship/theology-e/biblical-perspective-environmental-stewardship
http://fore.yale.edu/religion/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X14000177
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/27/eco.about.religion/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_environmentalism
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