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%

The world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last 25 years deceptively portraying themselves as leaders in addressing climate change while simultaneously expanding fossil fuel production and failing to rein in their planet-heating emissions insideclimatenews.org/news/1112202...
Big Oil’s Climate Ads Have Propped Up Fake Promises and False Solutions for Past 25 Years, Report Finds - Inside Climate News
First-of-its-kind analysis of hundreds of climate-related advertisements from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell suggests that oil companies are continuing to mislead the public on climate.
insideclimatenews.org

In an era characterized by misinformation and division, social infrastructure - the places and spaces that help us connect - can serve as important guides to a path forward towards a connective and resilient democracy. Libraries can save us.
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New #article from Li et al: System dynamics–based framework for modeling and assessing smart city resilience: a case study of Chengdu, China
TL;DR: strategic prioritization, subsystem-specific adaptation, intensity calibration, and phased focus
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New #article from Hayley Leggett Miwako Kitamura et al: Understanding community attitudes and responses to tsunami mitigation infrastructure and DRR methods in Kesennuma, Japan

TL;DR: High levels of dissatisfaction with tsunami defences

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New #article from Ana Raquel Nunes: Strengthening Critical Health Infrastructure—One Road to Climate Resilience

TL;DR: Coordinated efforts across health, urban planning and environmental sectors will be essential.

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New #article from Chisholm et al: “Like a family without being a family”: Social connectedness between social housing tenants in New Zealand
TL;DR: Social connections are supported by community rooms and “bump” spaces, that is, #socialinfrastructure
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A Federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore billions of dollars in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding siding with 22 states and the District of Columbia that sued over the canceled BRIC grants this summer apnews.com/article/fema...
Federal judge orders FEMA to restore billions in canceled disaster mitigation funding
A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to restore billions in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding.
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Trump admin sided with officials from Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran in a successful effort to block part of a UN report about the dire state of the planet because it called for phasing out fossil fuels, switching to clean energy and reducing plastics www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/c...
U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say
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Head Start early childhood programs are being told by the federal government to remove a list of nearly 200 words from grant applications including "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" and "women." www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests
New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.
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How to cheat citations: Each of the documents was chock-full of self-citations. In five cases, Yousaf was an author on all 37 papers in the reference list; the rest of the time, his publications made up nearly two-thirds of the reference list retractionwatch.com/2025/12/08/h...
How to juice your Google Scholar h-index, preprint by preprint
A screenshot of Yousaf’s Google Scholar profile before it was removed. Muhammad Zain Yousaf, a postdoc at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, became a scholar of note overnight. Or so it …
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Critical social infrastructure : a library helps students rebuild themselves, one quiet victory at a time. Yet, despite their proven impact, school libraries remain one of the most overlooked assets in K–12 education
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
More Than ‘Dusty Books’: Why School Libraries Are Essential Infrastructure (Opinion)
Administrators wrestling with learning loss rarely turn to librarians. That’s a strategic mistake.
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Make America contagious again: South Carolina measles outbreak ‘accelerating' with more than 110 confirmed cases. driving hundreds into quarantine Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine
www.nbcnewyork.com/news/nationa...

My review of Ogawa's new #book: Antinuclear Citizens. Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan
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New #article from Otero-Mateo Batista et al: Tsunami Early Warning Systems: Enhancing Coastal Resilience Through Integrated Risk Management

TL;DR: TEWS must be complemented by coastal resilience strategies, community engagement, and strong public policies

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New #article from Chisholm et al: “Like a family without being a family”: Social connectedness between social housing tenants in Aotearoa New Zealand
TL;DR: Social connections are supported by community rooms and “bump” spaces = #socialinfrastructure.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...