We have too little data to know how to help countries like Nepal recover from natural disasters

Author(s)
Kirscher, T.
Publication language
English
Date published
01 May 2015
Publisher
The Washington Post
Type
Articles
Keywords
Disasters, Earthquakes, Evidence, Response and recovery, System-wide performance, Urban
Countries
Nepal, Haiti
Organisations
Center for Refugee and Disaster Response
Link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/01/we-have-no-idea-how-t…

In the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquake, in this Washington Post article Dr. Thomas D. Kirscher of the Centre for Refugee and Disaster Response outlines his argument for why we need evidence-based disaster response, looking at the lessons learned from Haiti.