ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the theories of individual leadership that can be used to understand the initiatives related to disaster resilience. We ask three main questions: How do leaders emerge? What are the practices used to mobilise groups and communities to strive for disaster resilience? What are the outcomes that can be used to assess successful leadership for disaster resilience initiatives? The answers to these questions revolve around the individual and environmental circumstances that facilitate the emergence of leadership for disaster resilience, the processes and actions used by the leader to help achieve the group’s goals, and how successful leadership results in the group’s activities continuing towards its vision even after the leader has left. All these aspects are discussed closely. The ability of the group to respond to changing needs sustainably and equitably defines the success of the leadership.
