01334pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002300040245004500063260000900108300001300117362000800130520081300138650001500951650001400966773004100980909001001021999001701031952010401048180718b2003   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aUprety, Singha Raj  aRole of leadership in managing disasters  c2003  ap.61-75.  aJan  aDisasters have several connotations in addition to natural calamities. Disaster in this article refers not only to explosion of natural calamities like landslide, flood, earthquake etc. but to man-made damages resulting from faulty decisions, mis-conceived policies and ill-prepared plans and programmes of our politicians, bureaucrats and technocrats. It has been observed that human induced disasters are positively co-related with the incompetence of leaders in any decisions making body. The aim of this article is to examine various types of disasters including man-made ones and to arrive at a decision that leaders, politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats working both at the national and global level have a responsibility in managing disasters through proper plan and policy formulation. - Reproduced.  aLeadership  aDisasters  aAdministration and Management Review  a56102  c56102d56102  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 15, Issue no: 1pAR56547r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR