It's time to change the mind-set that natural disasters are inevitable. |
It's time to change the mindset of governments, who tend to plan too little for natural disasters. |
Scientists have to get involved with the policy-making community right from the beginning and try to understand what the constraints on policy-making are. |
We can't actually stop hurricanes or tsunamis or other extremes of nature. But ... we can avoid a lot of unnecessary human and economic losses. |
We have an opportunity right now right after disasters while governments are more receptive to influence policy from the start. |