Environmental Change, Livelihood Issues and Migration

Chapter 1: Environmental Change and Migration: A Growing Concern.- Chapter: 2 Sundarban and Its Environment.- Chapter: 3 Occupation in Sundarban.- Chapter: 4 Migration from Sundarban.- Chapter: 5 Environmental Risk Perception and Migration.- Chapter: 6 Livelihood Assets and Migration.- Chapter: 7 Structures and Processes, and Migration. Chapter: 8 Sustainable Livelihood Approaches (SLA).- Chapter: 9 Environmental Migration and Development Deficit: A Debate.- Appendix.

Dr Avijit Mistri is currently working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Nistarini College, West Bengal. He did his postgraduation (M.Sc.) in Geography from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Population Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has extensive work on Sundarban Biosphere Reserve in India in the context of climate change, sustainable livelihood, and Migration. He has published several research articles and chapters in a book in refereed national and international journals and books on this issue.
Dr Bhaswati Das is currently Faculty of Population Studies at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Science in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She did her graduation in Geography from the erstwhile Presidency College, Kolkata and continued her higher education in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her area of research is Population and Development. Migration being one of the most complex human response of development she has published several research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals on this issue. Several of her research scholars have successfully completed their doctoral thesis addressing issues on migration.