Post-disaster recovery: Multi-agency leadership and co-ordination
Date
2010Citation:
Beckett, J., Wilkinson, S. & Potangaroa, R. (2010, September). Post-disaster recovery: Multi-agency leadership and co-ordination. Paper presented at the 2010 Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Paris.Permanent link to Research Bank record:
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/1562Abstract
Recovery is a vital phase in an emergency management and civil defence cycle aimed towards long-term community resilience. Leadership plays a crucial role in an emergency situation, especially in the response and recovery stages.
This research examines the post-disaster rural community contexts of the 2009 Victorian Bushfires to review the leadership that exists in such a complex post-disaster environment.
Soft leadership and more technical, task-based management skills are combined to establish the necessary characteristics for effective disaster leadership during a post-disaster recovery.
The conclusion is reached that the most effective leadership in a recovery environment combines traits targeted towards achieving the right actions with minimal delay.