The Resilience of a Resettled Flood-Prone Community: An Application of the RABIT Framework in Pasig City, Metro Manila

Nikko Torres Ner (), Seth Asare Okyere, Matthew Abunyewah, Louis Kusi Frimpong and Michihiro Kita
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Nikko Torres Ner: Division of Global Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Osaka, Japan
Seth Asare Okyere: School of Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Matthew Abunyewah: The Australasian Centre for Resilience Implementation for Sustainable Communities, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0810, Australia
Louis Kusi Frimpong: Department of Geography and Earth Science, University of Environment and Sustainable Development, PMB, Somanya EY0329-2478, Eastern Region, Ghana
Michihiro Kita: Division of Global Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Osaka, Japan

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 8, 1-23

Abstract: Resilience measurement is an emerging topic in the field of disaster risk reduction. However, its application in Global South cities has proven to be a challenge due to the uniqueness of southern urbanisms and data challenges. As a result, the Resilience Benchmarking Assessment and Impact Toolkit (RABIT) framework has recently been developed to support resilience assessment in informal, marginalized, and disaster-prone contexts of southern cities. This paper asserts the relevance of the RABIT framework and uses it to assess the resilience of Manggahan residences, a resettled marginalized community in Pasig City, Metro Manila. Drawing on a quantitative approach and using exploratory factor analysis (EFA), the study revealed that scale, robustness, and learning attributes of the RABIT framework are strong contributors to the community’s resilience. Self-organization, diversity, and redundancy have similar levels of contribution. Equality and rapidity were found to have the weakest relative contribution. The study findings emphasize the need to view resilience in resettled communities holistically and adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach that considers the multiple aspects of everyday life to proactively build adaptive and future resilient capacities.

Keywords: disaster resilience; RABIT framework; Manggahan Residences; Metro Manila; resettlement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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