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
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TL;DR: Mutual aid, disaster preparedness, and collaboration between grassroots and institutional actors were critical for coordinated action
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disaster mortality
TL;DR: damaged infrastructures exponentially increase disaster mortality
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TL;DR: pathologies: culture of avoidance + rigid sectionalism, passive information-gathering practices
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TL;DR: Resilience emerges from wider cooperative-network architecture, of which connectance is one dimension w redundancy, modularity, nestedness, and strength
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TL;DR: brings social systems into disaster planning, making social capital + infrastructure visible, measurable+actionable
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TL;DR: Individualising moral foundations positively related to trust in NGOs
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TL;DR: social capital significantly enhances community preparedness
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