Article: From danger to death zones: Living with the floods in the resettlement site of Kasiglahan Village in the Philippines
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The article by Hannes Lauer, Wolfgang Scholz, Sonia Islam, Mathias Kaiser, Vincent F. Eugenio was published in Progress in Disaster Science
This article by Mathias Kaiser and others examines Kasiglahan Village, a large resettlement settlement in Rodriguez, Rizal, outside Metro Manila in the Philippines, as a "living laboratory" for climate-resilient land use planning. It develops a vision of "living with floods" that emerges from a mixed methods approach combining flood modeling, household surveys, focus groups and participatory co-design workshops.
The concept is based on 3 pillars:
- Reducing vulnerability through flood protection
- Adaptation to risks through adaptive housing and community-based disaster risk reduction, and
- Supporting livelihoods to strengthen long-term resilience.
The findings highlight the need to re-conceptualize resettlement and managed retreat as long-term adaptive land use planning processes that integrate incremental modernization and sustainable flood risk management.