The “most beautiful place” where “it’s not possible to live”: A qualitative study of relational well-being in an area of climate vulnerability, Bangladesh

Kyra Lilier, Sarah L Dalglish, Mark Donald C Reñosa, Samiya A Selim, Syed Tauheed Raihan, Rafia Islam, Jennifer Das, Ina Danquah, Rainer Sauerborn and Kate Bärnighausen

PLOS ONE, 2025, vol. 20, issue 9, 1-20

Abstract: Purpose: Climate change is the greatest global health threat of the 21st century, but little is known about well-being in climate vulnerable populations. We investigate how well-being is shaped by common and unique stressors in an area of climate vulnerability in Bangladesh. Methods: We present findings from 60 semi-structured in-depth interviews. We inductively analyzed our data following a Reflexive Thematic Analysis approach and then applied a Relational Well-being (RWB) framework. Results: We found that well-being was influenced negatively by factors such as financial worries, forced migration, social pressure, and natural disasters. Well-being was influenced positively by factors such as financial satisfaction, voluntary migration, social support, and place attachment. Conclusions: Using relational well-being as a conceptual lens allowed us to explore the dynamism and complexity of factors shaping well-being that were partly specific to the local context and partly rooted in wider societal and global structures. Policies which aim to improve the well-being of climate vulnerable populations should consider relational well-being as a conceptual tool to leverage locally available informal resources, such as suppotive reciprocal relationships.

Date: 2025
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