Scientists may prepare excellent hazard assessments and maps, but unless they participate fully in conveying hazard information to officials and the public in ways that are understandable, disasters can still happen (Voight[1990]; Hall[1992]).
Hicks said he had mixed feelings: understandable regret the disaster had happened, but pride in what the HFSG had achieved.
Training participants familiarized themselves with interactive methods of teaching which will help them further to facilitate quality and easily understandable delivery of disaster risk reduction concepts and modules.
Scenes of astral magic and natural disaster (an understandable preoccupation of Japanese cinema) lend a degree of spectacle that would put many live-action blockbusters to shame, while a hallucinogenic diversion into chalk pastel wonderment will transport even the most sceptical viewer to another realm.
At first glance, this looks like an almighty disaster, albeit an understandable one.
With media rightly focused on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster it's understandable that the climate talks under way in Bonn, Germany this week are not getting much of a spotlight.
Having been embarrassed by missing impending disaster, there is an understandable hesitation to appear foolishly optimistic again.
The Bush presidency has been an unmitigated disaster and it is understandable to hope that it ends as quickly as possible.
We're galloping toward Clive Cussler territory here — and raising some unsettling echoes of a bring-it-on mind-set that, while understandable in a combat soldier, invites disaster when it percolates up to the Oval Office.
It facilitates mutual understanding between planners and community members and generates knowledge about those local practices that translate disaster preparedness into frameworks understandable to and actionable by the community's members.
Given the trauma of the March 2011 tsunami disaster, Japan's nuclear shutdown is understandable – if regrettable from a global warming perspective.
