Disaster Prevention and Management
Volume 24 Issue 1
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Does transformational leadership build resilient public and nonprofit organizations?
Jesus N. Valero , Kyujin Jung , Simon A. Andrew
(pp. 4 – 20)
Abstract
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of transformational leadership – broadly defined as an individual who is visionary, innovative, inspirational and sensitive to the needs of followers – on the level of organizational resiliency.
Design/methodology/approach
– This study employs multiple hierarchical regression analysis to test the causal relationship between transformational leadership and organizational resiliency by utilizing 112 respondents working in emergency management departments of local governments, fire and police stations, and nonprofit organizations in the Southeastern Economic Region of South Korea.
Findings
– The results of the analysis indicate that transformational leadership style has a positive and statistically significant effect on perceived organizational resiliency. The findings also indicate that elected officials such as mayors are more likely to focus on building organizational resiliency than appointed officials and nonprofit leaders.
Originality/value
– This study fills the gap of the current literature in the field of emergency management by establishing empirical evidence of the need to identify leaders with transformational traits in order to build a resilient organization, which can better respond and adapt to a catastrophic event in the Asian context.

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Bridging the concepts of resilience, fragility and stabilisation
Siambabala Bernard Manyena , Stuart Gordon
(pp. 38 – 52)
Abstract
Purpose
– The fragile states and stabilisation concepts appear to resonate with the concept of community resilience. Yet, there is barely a framework that integrates the three concepts. The authors posit that despite the increasing interest in community resilience in fragile states, there is much less clarity of resilience, fragility and stabilisation connections. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
– This paper is based on the literature review of the concepts of community resilience, fragility and stabilisation.
Findings
– The findings restate that the state fragility results from the breakdown of the social contract between the state and its citizens. Whilst both resilience and stabilisation are desirable constructs in reducing fragility, they should be broadly underpinned by agency not only to enhance preventive, anticipatory, absorptive and adaptive actions but also lead to social transformative capacity where agency is embedded for communities to exercise some sort of power to foster change.
Originality/value
– This paper has encourages debate on resilience, fragility and stabilisation connections by suggesting framework for “doing” resilience-informed stabilisation programmes in fragile states. The framework, which may not necessarily be approached in a linear fashion, has three major components: identifying existing resilience factors, enhancing and sustaining these and delivering resilient communities. However, there is need to test the utility of the framework in practice.

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From armed conflict to disaster vulnerability
Marcus Marktanner , Edward Mienie , Luc Noiset
(pp. 53 – 69)
Abstract
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of armed conflict on the vulnerability to natural hazards.
Design/methodology/approach
– The authors employ panel estimates of disaster deaths on a lagged indicator of the presence of armed conflict.
Findings
– Disaster deaths following armed conflict are on average 40 percent higher compared to disasters that are chronologically detached from armed conflict events; a legacy of armed conflict accounts for roughly 14 percent of the approximately five million disaster deaths between 1961 and 2010.
Practical implications
– A global estimate of the relationship between armed conflict and disaster vulnerability can help disaster management planners identify policy priorities associated with disaster prevention and management.
Originality/value
– The analysis reinforces the findings in previous qualitative studies of a causal link between armed conflict and increased disaster vulnerability and provides a quantitative estimate of the average magnitude of this relationship.