It's time to change the mindset of governments, who tend to plan too little for natural disasters.
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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.
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We have an opportunity right now right after disasters while governments are more receptive to influence policy from the start.
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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.
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