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# Staying on a flood-prone delta island is neither simply choice nor constraint
- URL: https://intelligence.wildlandseco.com/2026-10-25-bengal-delta-staying-choice-and-constraint/
- Published: 2026-10-25T13:33:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T13:33:54.000Z
- Description: Qualitative research uncovers overlapping strategies behind apparent immobility.
- Author: Benjamin Worlund
- Tags: Governance, Climate, Water, Land, #ecological-intelligence, #brief-2026-10-25, #global-radar, #peer-reviewed, #geo-asia

Evidence

Peer-reviewed

Geography

Mousuni Island, West Bengal, India

System

Coastal delta / adaptation governance

## WHAT THE EVIDENCE SAYS

Interviews on Mousuni Island under cyclones, flooding and erosion distinguish intrinsic reasons to stay, biding time before a possible move, and functional ways of remaining alongside more constrained forms. One household can express several motivations.

## WHY IT MATTERS / OUR READ

Relocation and flood-protection policy should address people's actual alternatives, land, livelihoods, family roles and attachment to place. Remaining resident does not by itself prove resilience or being trapped.

## CAVEATS / UNCERTAINTY

Context-specific qualitative research, not a representative population census or tested relocation intervention.

## SOURCE

Sengupta · Regional Environmental Change · Mousuni interview study  
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