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An integrated flood risk management (FRM) plan was established in the Philippines for the first time in 2012 after the disastrous flooding brought by Typhoon Ondoy in 2009. It is a crucial task to identify and analyze the barriers that may hamper the effective implementation of the FRM plan. In this study, barriers to FRM were identified from a collection of literature related to flooding then interrelationships among barriers were analyzed by conducting a pairwise assessment by experts. Barriers to FRM in Metro Manila are found to be related to three aspects namely, governance, social and scientific resources aspects. There are 4, 3 and 5 barriers identified in the governance, social and scientific resources aspect, respectively. The barrier interrelationships were elicited by 5 carefully selected local experts and practitioners in the Philippines. The results of this study show that barriers in the governance aspect heavily influence all other barriers while the barriers on the social aspect have the least influence but strongly depends on the other aspects. The collective perception of the 5 local experts and practitioners also showed satisfactory understanding on the barriers in FRM. This study was able to identify and analyze the interrelationship of each FRM barriers which can provide insights to decision makers on how to overcome them.
