A collection of papers authored by members of the SUCCESS project, published in the annual journal of Bhutan’s Royal Thimphu College, shines a light on how climate change acts as a “background stressor” that drives migration by making rural livelihoods increasingly precarious.

“Bhutan faces two profound existential threats – climate change and demographic change due to people leaving rural areas, or leaving the country entirely.” – Kinley Dorji, PhD student at the Royal University of Bhutan

A press release from the University of Exeter News takes a closer look at the research findings from this collection of papers, which “are the most in-depth assessment to date of how climate change influences migration in Bhutan”.

Explore the papers:

• Keeping Thimphu running : the lives and livelihoods of city workers
• Climate change and migration in Bhutan : an integrative review
• Human–wildlife conflict, precarity and gender dynamics in rural Bhutan
• Invisible and visible precarity in urban Bhutan : housing as an analytical lens
• Staying back, falling behind? how social responsibilities shape the livelihood choices of sons in rural Denchukha
• Migration as adaptation? climate change resilience and vulnerability in Bhutan
• Female migrant workers in Bhutan’s liquor industry : from economic to gendered vulnerabilities
• Migrant workers driving development : a view from Pasakha, Bhutan
• Migration as a pathway to climate resilience? precarities, adaptive capacity, and wellbeing in Denchukha-Thimphu migration corridor