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100			_aUprety, Singha Raj
245			_aRole of leadership in managing disasters
260			_c2003
300			_ap.61-75.
362			_aJan
520			_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.
650			_aLeadership
650			_aDisasters
773			_aAdministration and Management Review
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999			_c56102 _d56102