We can learn a lot from disasters, and we now know some areas don't recover
- Written by Ed Blakely, Honorary Professor in Urban Policy, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney

Natural disasters were once regarded as a problem for the developing world, with reports of these rarely leading the news. Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy punctured that insularity in the US thanks to a malevolent combination of extreme weather events and population growth – especially in highly inappropriate places like storm-surge zones.
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