The phrase "an understandable need" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a requirement or desire that is clear and easy to comprehend.
Example: "In times of crisis, it is an understandable need for people to seek comfort and support from their loved ones."
Alternatives: "a justifiable need" or "a reasonable need".
Unesco's various diktats emerged from an understandable need to discipline the rebuilding of Europe's heritage after wartime bombing.
When property is damaged, personal injury sustained or loss of life occurs there is an understandable need to determine where any fault may lie.
For Jonathan Shedler, professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado school of medicine, his appeal is better understood through the lens of "transference": in times of stress, whatever the complex blend of causes for that stress, people revert to a childhood desire for an omnipotent protector – an understandable need in young children, but dysfunctional in adulthood.
There is an understandable need for uniformity and consistency when scaling a mentoring program, but a high level of discretion and humanity must continue to be a part of the equation.
Humankind has a very real and understandable need to quantify the risks associated with living and working in areas known to be at risk.
This is not isolation forced upon him by the understandable need for security, but a willful isolation from any dissenting views.
We seem to accept the fallacy that because of the understandable need for some secret tactics in a conflict, the strategic policy and decisions that lead to and maintain that conflict should remain secret as well.
The understandable need to treat all the migraine attacks combined with a reduced efficacy of rescue medications, can determinate the occurrence of medication overuse [7].
Smith broods: "Imagine his foul understandable need, his satisfaction, changing DH Lawrence to DH cinders".
The sort of (expensive and time-consuming) journalism Nick Davies does is threatened in many news organisations by the quite understandable need to cut costs.
Despite her understandable need to flee the house in which she once lived with her deceased husband -- "The surviving spouse inhabits a space not much larger than a grave" -- it's hard to imagine any woman in her right mind, even one as grief-stricken and desperate as Sophie, picking herself up and flying to Sourland, Minn., to spend time in the wilderness with a stranger.
