Daniel Aldrich
danielaldrich.bsky.social
Daniel Aldrich
@danielaldrich.bsky.social

Social scientist interested in social capital, social infrastructure, energy and environmental politics. Books at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Daniel-P.-Aldrich/author/B001JSDHPW

Daniel P. Aldrich is an academic in the fields of political science, public policy and Asian studies. He is currently full professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University. Aldrich has held several Fulbright fellowships, including a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy at Flinders University in Australia in 2023, a Fulbright Specialist in Trinidad-Tobago in 2018, a Fulbright research fellowship at the University of Tokyo's Economic's Department for the 2012–2013 academic year, and a IIE Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship in Tokyo in 2002–2003. His research, prompted in part by his own family's experience of Hurricane Katrina, explores how communities around the world respond to and recover from disaster. .. more

Political science 31%
Sociology 29%

Mexican Cartel ‘Drones’ Near El Paso Airspace Were Actually Party Balloons: Report
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Mexican Cartel 'Drones' Near El Paso Airspace Were Actually Party Balloons: Report
FAA initially ordered the closure of airspace over El Paso for 10 days before backtracking.
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New #article from Francisco Benita and Martinez: A pandemic in the fragmented city: Social infrastructure and COVID-19 in Jakarta TL;DR: vulnerability stems not from internal social cohesion, but from the community's fragmented relationship with the formal city

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very excited to see our new #article with Jaiddeep Visave: Comparative analysis of Community-Based wildfire management: A review of Australian approaches w implications for CA
TL;DR: Need regulatory recalibration, resource shifting, and institutional investment.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New #article from Antonsen et al: Don't quit your day job. Part-time firefighters in rural Norway.

TL;DR: social relations to the community, and among the firefighters, are characterized by reciprocity and communal values
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New #article from Fadly Usman et al: Spatial Analysis of Evacuation Sites for Tsunami Mitigation in Banyuwangi City

TL;DR: recommends adding shelters in high-risk areas, enhancing evacuation routes, and integrating spatial planning with tsunami risk maps.

www.etasr.com/index.php/ET...

New #article from Jossou et al: Building Local Resilience Potential on a Day-to-Day Basis: The Influence of Stakeholder Dynamics and Contextual Factors
TL;DR: ambiguous, inhibiting, favouring favors influence deployment of key competences and processes
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New #chapter from Nilgun Okay and Ebru Onal: Elderly Women and Community Resilience
TL;DR: capacity to build a disaster-resilient society is strongly associated with social capital
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...