Leadership approach can be a crucial factor for climate change adaptation/disaster risk reduction (CCA/DRR). Perhaps, leadership failed during the recent disaster that hit southern Mindanao early in December 2012. Many were killed, injured, gone missing. The "star paper" of Mr. Emil Rex Santos, a master's degree student of the University of the Philippines-National College of Public Administration and Governance (UP-NCPAG), may offer explanations and provide guideposts for local leaders in CCA/DRR.
Title: "Local Leadership in Disaster Management: The Philippine Setting"
Abstract:
The Philippines, situated in a disaster-prone
region and in a highly seismic area along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is visited by at least 20 typhoons a year, and home to 300 volcanoes, 22 of
which are active which necessitates the need or adoption of a disaster risk reduction
management plan. Such a plan entails
action not just by national leaders, but more importantly by local actors. The author proposes the utilization of a
Disaster Management Cycle that incorporates leadership types that were culled
from case studies in the Philippine setting.
He suggests that specific leadership types (i.e. strategic, charismatic,
transformational, collaborative, emergent, situational and meta-leadership) be
considered in the various phases of a holistic disaster management program at
the local level.
To read the paper, e-mail the author at rexsantos95@yahoo.com for a copy or visit the library of UP-NCPAG.
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