Notes from the ground

Prof Jonathan Rigg from the Dept of Geography at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, as well as Ms Hanna Ruszczyk, and Ms Katie Oven, who are from Durham University in the United Kingdom, noted that even after the major earthquake that occurred in Nepal on 25 April 2015, there will be many who will see the country's major challenges as developmental. The authors opined that integrating disaster preparedness into the mainstream of government and development work will only be slightly easier than it was before the earthquake.

• The Straits Times, 29 April 2015, Opinion, pA23