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
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The Markle Foundation announces an #AI initiative focused on emergency preparedness, response, and recovery
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Finland seizes ship sailing from Russia after suspected cable sabotage
“At the moment we suspect aggravated disruption of telecommunications and also aggravated sabotage,” Helsinki's police chief said.
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Hybrid warfare: Finnish police on Wednesday seized a ship sailing from Russia on suspicion of sabotaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia across the Gulf of Finland, an area hit by a string of similar incidents in recent years www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
China Signals It Won’t Give an Inch to the U.S. in Latin America
Beijing is doubling down on its expansion just as President Trump tries to claim the Western Hemisphere as an exclusive sphere of influence for the U.S.
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Beijing doubles down on its ambitions for the region just as Trump tries to assert dominance over the Western Hemisphere www.wsj.com/world/americ...
New #article from Velasco et al: The State of Local Governance and Public Finance in Disaster Risk Research: A Structural Topic Modelling Analysis
TL;DR: DRR research would benefit from greater emphasis on governance and public finance.
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TL;DR: DRR research would benefit from greater emphasis on governance and public finance.
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New #article from Adhikari et al: Resilience of women-led agro-based small businesses to the COVID-19 in Nepal
TL;DR: resilience of women-led small businesses during pandemic contingent to social capital, the strength of social networks, connections w govt
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TL;DR: resilience of women-led small businesses during pandemic contingent to social capital, the strength of social networks, connections w govt
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Reinsurers extend profit boom as they cut cover to cope with disasters
Broker Guy Carpenter says profitability increased 2 percentage points to 18% in 2025
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Profiting by withdrawing: some of the world’s largest reinsurance companies boosted profitability this year after they reduced coverage to limit their risk from catastrophic events such as flooding and increased prices for their policies. www.ft.com/content/4623...
Sinkholes and Quake-Hit Roads Expose Japan’s Infrastructure Emergency
Depopulation and shrinking tax revenues are making it harder for the country to maintain basic lifelines or rebuild after disasters.
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Physical infrastructure should never be our core strategy: infrastructure has grown fragile decades after Japan’s industrial boom. Chronic shortages of funding and labor make it especially hard for regional communities to maintain and rebuild structures www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Old Solar Panels Built in the Early 1990s Are Still Going Strong After 30 Years at 80% Original Power — And That’s a Big Deal for Our Energy Future
Thirty years later, old-school solar panels are still delivering on their promise.
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Six photovoltaic systems installed between 1987 and 1993 across the country’s dramatically different climates — temperate valleys, snowy mountain huts, and high-altitude research stations perched above the clouds -are still reliably producing electricity. www.zmescience.com/ecology/rene...
Our new #article with Matsunaga et al: Crossing the fairness threshold: skepticism, risk and zero-sum thinking in Fukushima’s decommissioning
TL;DR: fairness reduces both risk perception and zero-sum thinking which subsequently influence policy skepticism
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TL;DR: fairness reduces both risk perception and zero-sum thinking which subsequently influence policy skepticism
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Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes off coast of Japan's Noda region, USGS says
A magnitude 6 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan's eastern Noda region on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake was at a depth of 19.3 km (11.99 miles), the USGS said.
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Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes off coast of Japan's Noda region
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New #chapter from Mitchell Berg: Achieving Tribal, Municipal, and County Cooperation in the US
TL;DR: leaders that invested in trust building, mutual respect, and interpersonal ties (social capital) were more successful in achieving agreement
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TL;DR: leaders that invested in trust building, mutual respect, and interpersonal ties (social capital) were more successful in achieving agreement
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Oil tanker pursued by US now has a Russian flag painted on its side | CNN Politics
Crew members aboard the aging, rusted oil tanker that the US has been pursuing at sea for nearly two weeks appear to have painted a crude image of a Russian flag on the ship’s hull, which American off...
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Protective coloration? Crew members aboard the aging, rusted oil tanker that the US has been pursuing at sea for nearly two weeks appear to have painted a crude image of a Russian flag on the ship’s hull www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/p...
China brings the world’s first 1-GW offshore solar farm online
China has connected the world’s first 1-GW offshore solar farm to the grid, a plant off Shandong set to generate 1.78 TWh per year.
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When operating at full capacity, the project is expected to generate approximately 1.78 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. That’s enough to cover the annual needs of 2.67 million urban residents and 60% of Kenli District’s electricity demand. electrek.co/2025/12/30/c...
New #article from Arce et al: What makes Guatemalan citizens green?
TL;DR: ‘climate bads’ – e.g. when disasters cause temporary relocation of households because of damaged homes – are consistent drivers of green citizen actions
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TL;DR: ‘climate bads’ – e.g. when disasters cause temporary relocation of households because of damaged homes – are consistent drivers of green citizen actions
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New #article from Khan et al: Integrating Social Support and Digital Technologies to Boost Coping Mechanisms and Collective Action During Extreme Disasters
TL;DR: social support moderates the relationship between risk awareness and coping appraisal
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TL;DR: social support moderates the relationship between risk awareness and coping appraisal
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