The ‘most beautiful place’ where ‘it’s not possible to live’: a qualitative study of relational well-being in an area of climate disaster risk, Bangladesh [data]
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 and influenced in such a population, where unique and common stressors draw on human well-being. Methods:...
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| Format: | Database Research Data |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg
Universität
2025-06-18
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| DOI: | 10.11588/DATA/C4EWW7 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.11588/DATA/C4EWW7 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.11588/DATA/C4EWW7 
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| Author Notes: | Kyra Lilier |
| Summary: | 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 and influenced in such a population, where unique and common stressors draw on human well-being. Methods: We present findings from 60 semi-structured in-depth interviews from an area of climate disaster risk in Bangladesh. We inductively analyzed our data following a Reflexive Thematic Analysis approach and then deductively applied a Relational Well-being (RWB) framework to organize refined themes around the importance of relationships for well-being as personal, societal, and environmental drivers. 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 influencing factors on 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 supporting reciprocal relationships with place and people. |
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| Item Description: | Gefördert durch: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR): Project no. 02WDG1696; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): 535733258; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): 496418931 Gesehen am 07.08.2025 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| DOI: | 10.11588/DATA/C4EWW7 |