Disaster Recovery Expert: Japan Volcano
October 1, 2014
Daniel P. Aldrich, an associate professor of political science at Purdue University, has studied evacuation, disaster recovery and community rebuilding following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and he can discuss topics related to the eruption of Japan’s Mount Ontake. He can discuss how government regulation, communication and social networks relate to natural disasters, especially concerning the location of nuclear power sites that can be affected by seismic activities. He also studies how societies address hazard exposure concerns by engaging in citizen science and grassroots activism.
Aldrich, who speaks Japanese, was in Japan in 2012-13 on a Fulbright Fellowship to study changes in government and civic engagement since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. His work also has focused on the 1923 earthquake in Tokyo and the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan.
He is the author of "Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery" and "Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West." Aldrich, who also is director of Purdue’s Asian Studies, is completing work on a book focusing on disaster response and recovery in the Philippines, India, Singapore and other Asian nations.
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, 765-494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Source: Daniel Aldrich: daniel.aldrich@gmail.com
Related website:
College of Liberal Arts: http://www.cla.purdue.edu