BACKGROUND Bangladesh has the highest natural disaster mortality rate in the world, with over half a million people lost to disaster events since 1970. Most of these people have died during floods or cyclones, both of which are likely to become more frequent due to global climate change. To date, the government's post-disaster response strategy has focused, increasingly effectively, on the phys...

Thank you for these responses. There seems to be some confusion about the extent of The BMJ’s new policy as set out in our recent editorial. The policy applies only to editorials and clinical educational articles designed to guide patient care and does not extend to other types of article published in The BMJ. Moreover it precludes only those authors with a relevant commercial interest—one that...

The role of migration as one potential adaptation to climate change is increasingly recognized, but little known about whether constitutes successful adaptation, under what conditions, and for whom. Based on a review emerging science, we propose that if it increases well-being, reduces inequality, promotes sustainability. Well-being, equity, sustainability represent entry points identifying tra...

Tension is a polysemic term used across South Asia to describe the strains and scrapes of life, like ‘worry’ or ‘stress’ in Euro-American discourse. Yet formerly agro-pastoralist upwardly mobile Gaddi community Himalayan India, it by women with qualifying ghar ki – ‘household’ indicate deeper disruption bodily humours, intimate relations, household materiality. This article takes tension, parti...

This study reports the out come of a primary qualitative investigation of open and distance learning system of education as a panacea to the problem of socially induced constraints on the acquisition of education, that may lead to the inability to attend higher institutions of learning, acquire certificates, become a qualified skilled worker by being able to study for the course of study chosen...