Daniel P. Aldrich urbanists.social/web/@dpaldrich

Professor of comparative public policy: social capital, disaster recovery, environment, energy and resilience. My books:

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Ice cream cartel: Japan’s Fair Trade Commission said it raided the offices of six leading ice cream manufacturers for operating a cartel. Companies had colluded to raise prices beyond an increase in the costs of materials and harmed customers. https://t.co/QQC9mNY3jg

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New #article from Lixin Shuang: Exploring the Impact Mechanism of Rural Sports Events on Rural Economic Resilience: a Case Study of guizhou's "Village Super League
TL;DR: sports systematically enhance economic resilience, recovery, and transformation
https://t.co/hoc2VEOSz0

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New #article from Hong et al: Global Renewable Energy Infrastructure Resilience Under Climate Risks
TL;DR: climate risk significantly damages global renewable energy infrastructure
https://t.co/o00cETIgKo

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New #article from Sjuchro et al: Media Redundancy and Crisis Communication Resilience in Rural Communities: Community Radio Practices in Indonesia
TL;DR: radio can function as an alternative channel that can replace other communication tools
https://t.co/L85YCOGK9W

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New #article from Jacobs et al: Living the Lab: Rethinking Collaborative Practices in Living Lab Contexts Amid Polycrisis
TL;DR: living labs must cultivate attentiveness not only to complexity but also to the relationships necessary for responding
https://t.co/iZHyMcSFVI

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National Security Agency has lost access to a powerful A.I. model developed by Anthropic amid the Trump administration’s brawl with the start-up, depriving it of a tool that has alarmed its analysts with how good it is at finding software weaknesses. https://t.co/wBCaeucymR

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Japan's Supreme Court has upheld lower court rulings ordering the dissolution of the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church, rejecting a special appeal filed by the organization. https://t.co/FEuzsVhk0g

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‘Communion,’ far more than ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ is the work of an inveterate opportunist, one who appears torn between the urge to camouflage his careerism—Vance’s true religion—and a desire to be admired for how well and how profitably he plays the game. https://t.co/Iux7UjFI0t

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Powlesland is now in deep water with the UK’s Environmental Agency after organizing a group of volunteers called the River Roding Trust to dredge garbage out of a small tributary in the northeast exurbs of London. https://t.co/464vmv33mP

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Chasing a profit as the world burns: oil majors seeking attractive returns amidst lower renewable margins, intense competition, and investor demands for profitability over pure capacity, opting for profitable integration rather than renewables https://t.co/EvRJ6gqrKP

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New #article from Xiong et al: Fire Preparedness Among Residents in High-Risk Urban Areas in China
TL;DR: overall fire preparedness level is moderately low, with survival security and technology integration being the weakest aspects.
https://t.co/pKhETgDAMO

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New #article from Arroyo et al: The untapped potential of civil society organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of Italy
TL;DR: CSO density is negatively associated with excess mortality, but only where institutional quality is weak.
https://t.co/59c0a387id

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New #article from Ibiniyi et a: Post‐Disaster Recovery as a Multidimensional Process: A Systematic Literature Review of Relational Dynamics
TL;DR: Temporal trade‐offs between short‐term material gains +long‐term sustainability in dominant recovery models
https://t.co/beNeZDQaEG

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China has accused Japan of “dangerous” close-in reconnaissance and “provocative harassment” during more than 40 days of “far-sea combat training” by a Chinese Navy aircraft carrier flotilla https://t.co/hBs9Cb05rC

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Chinese tourists are expected to be among the hardest hit by Japan’s fivefold visa fee increase, a move analysts warned could further strain already tense relations between Beijing and Tokyo. https://t.co/rOYMFSbNvL

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As the US steps back from science and research, others move forward: China took back a computing crown from the United States on Tuesday, ratcheting up a fierce technological competition that has implications for science, national security and geopolitics https://t.co/ljARGGl8So

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China increases surveillance of areas east of Taiwan, unnerving Taiwanese allies like Japan and the Philippines https://t.co/nNVWkNQpoQ

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By declining to take up a lower court ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt another blow to the Voting Rights Act https://t.co/NWhiuaBDfp

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New #article from Le: Disaster Communication and Disaster Epistemology: Cultural Foundations of Knowing +Normalizing Crisis
TL;DR: religious traditions as a toolbox that actors draw upon to make sense of uncertainty, causality, and limits of human control
https://t.co/tHouKGptz7