ABSTRACT
Over the years, environmental migration is a growing concern along with climate change, particularly for the low-lying areas and islands in the South and East Asia. The fragile environment of the islands of Sundarban has caught one of the top most attentions among them. The present study is an attempt to get insight into the subjective appraisal of the environmental change in Sundarban, its influence on means of livelihood, especially on farming and fishing, and finally its linkage to outmigration. It is a comparative study between two groups, migrants and non-migrants. The study reveals that islanders are more concerned about their own family than holistic global risk. They also mostly are unable to perceive the non-human nature of the current impact of environmental change in Sundarban. Both the migrants and non-migrants perceive more or less equal environmental risk, which tend to moderately affect their respective activities. Therefore, there is no significant difference observed between the groups in terms of livelihood threat. The impact of environmental change on their activity is not a significant driver of the outmigration from Sundarban.
