Patrick DALY
Senior Research Fellow
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- Hazards, Risk and Society
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Patrick Daly’s research focuses upon long-term human environmental relationships, the impact of natural hazards and conflicts upon societies, post-disaster recovery, humanitarianism, and cultural heritage. At EOS he oversees the Hazards and Society research group, which has on-going projects in Indonesia and Nepal.
Patrick has worked extensively on issues of recovery and reconstruction in the aftermath of both human and natural disasters. This includes ethnographic fieldwork in the West Bank during the second Palestinian uprising, over ten years analyzing recovery following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Indonesia, and research on narratives of conflict and reintegration in Cambodia. This body of work seeks to generate more nuanced understandings of how communities perceive and carry out recovery, and how this fits, or does not, within the framework of large intervention projects carried out by external parties. Some of the key themes explored in his work are the relationships between affected persons and aid agencies, the nature and efficacy of participatory aid and development practices, capacity and sustainability, and the importance of culture and heritage to recovering communities.
Starting in 2006, Patrick has conducted research with EOS researchers, international collaborators and local partners on the long-term history of seismic events and tsunamis along the coast of western Sumatra, using geo-archaeological methods. This work has produced the most complete paleotsunami record for the Indian Ocean region, discovered in coastal cave in Aceh, Indonesia. Additionally, the team has uncovered a coastal settlement site from the late 14th century AD that was destroyed by a previous mega-tsunami (precursor to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami).
Before coming to EOS Patrick was part of major environmental history research projects in Europe, the Near East and Southeast Asia. From 1995 – 2000, he worked on the Wadi Faynan Landscape Project, an empirically grounded study of the relationship between human activity and desertification in southern Jordan from the later prehistoric period through present day. From 1998 – 2006 he was one of the core members of a team studying over 75,000 years of environmental and human history in Island Southeast Asia at the Niah Caves in Sarawak. From 1996 – 2007 Patrick was a core member a University of Oxford based study of cultural landscape evolution from the late bronze age through the Romano-British period Oxfordshire.
- 2003: DPhil. Landscape Archaeology. University of Oxford, Institute of Archaeology
- 1997: BA (honours) Department of Anthropology; Minor Physical Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo
- December 2010 — 30 June 2015: Senior Fellow, University Scholars Program, National University of Singapore
- December 2006 — November 2010: Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
- December 2005 — November 2006: Post Doctoral Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
- September 2004 — November 2005: Post Doctoral Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
- September 2003 — June 2004: Visiting Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestinian Territories
- Management Team, Earth Observatory of Singapore
- Steering Committee, NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Science Environmental Studies Research Cluster
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Heritage Studies
- University Town Academic Taskforce: Third Module
- Co-coordinator ASEAN Graduate Forum, National University of Singapore
- 2005 — present: Asia Research Institute Social Committee
- 2006 — 2007: Asia Research Institute Steering Committee
- 2005 — 2007: Asia Research Institute Seminar Committee
- 2013, 2014: NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award
- 2011, 2012, 2013: NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
- 2004: British Academy Research Fellowship
- 1997 — 2011: Oxford University Overseas Research Award
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(2016). The challenges of disaster risk reduction in rapidly expanding urban environments: Baguio City, Philippines since the 1990 Luzon Earthquake. (Daly, P., & Feener R M., Ed.).Rebuilding Asia Following Natural Disasters: Approaches to Reconstruction in the Asia-Pacific Region. 57-80.
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(2016). The challenges of disaster risk reduction in rapidly expanding urban environments: Baguio City, Philippines since the 1990 Luzon Earthquake. (Daly, P., & Feener R M., Ed.).Rebuilding Asia Following Natural Disasters: Approaches to Reconstruction in the Asia-Pacific Region. 57-80.
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(2016). Post-disaster reconstruction in Asia: New actors and approaches. (Daly, P., & Feener R M., Ed.).Rebuilding Asia Following Natural Disasters: Approaches to Reconstruction in the Asia-Pacific Region. 393-405.
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(2016). Post-disaster reconstruction in Asia: New actors and approaches. (Daly, P., & Feener R M., Ed.).Rebuilding Asia Following Natural Disasters: Approaches to Reconstruction in the Asia-Pacific Region. 393-405.
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(2016). Religion and reconstruction in the wake of disaster. Asian Ethnology. 75(1), 191-202.
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(2016). Cycles of destruction and reconstruction: responding to disasters in the Asia-Pacific region. (Daly, P., & Feener R M., Ed.).Rebuilding Asia Following Natural Disasters: Approaches to Reconstruction in the Asia-Pacific Region. 1-56.
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(2016). Cycles of destruction and reconstruction: responding to disasters in the Asia-Pacific region. (Daly, P., & Feener R M., Ed.).Rebuilding Asia Following Natural Disasters: Approaches to Reconstruction in the Asia-Pacific Region. 1-56.
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(2016). Blueprints for change in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia. (Daly, P., & Feener R M., Ed.).Rebuilding Asia Following Natural Disasters: Approaches to Reconstruction in the Asia-Pacific Region. 181-209.
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(2016). Blueprints for change in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia. (Daly, P., & Feener R M., Ed.).Rebuilding Asia Following Natural Disasters: Approaches to Reconstruction in the Asia-Pacific Region. 181-209.
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(2016). ‘Putting broken pieces back together’: reconciliation, justice and heritage in post-conflict situations. (Logan, W., Craith M. N., & Kockel U., Ed.).The Blackwell Companion to New Heritage Studies. 491-506.
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(2021). Islamisation and the Formation of Vernacular Muslim Material Culture in 15th-Century Northern Sumatra. Indonesia and the Malay World.
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(2020). Rethinking relief, reconstruction and development: Evaluating the effectiveness and sustainability of post-disaster livelihood aid. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 49,
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(2019). Archaeological evidence that a late 14th-century tsunami devastated the coast of northern Sumatra and redirected history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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(2019). The Historic Trading Port of Lamri on the North Sumatran Coast. Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient. 105, 115-144.
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(2018). Socio-economic consequences of post-disaster reconstruction in hazard-exposed areas. Nature Sustainability. 1, 38-43.
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(2017). Highly variable recurrence of tsunamis in the 7,400 years before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Nature Communications. 8(16019),
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(2017). Trust and distrust of tsunami vertical evacuation buildings: Extending protection motivation theory to examine choices under social influence. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 24, 462-473.
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(2017). Disaster Research: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 38(3), 429-430.
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(2017). Situating local stakeholders within national disaster governance structures: rebuilding urban neighbourhoods following the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Environment and Urbanization. 29(2), 403-424.
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(2017). Rehabilitating coastal agriculture and aquaculture after inundation events: Spatial analysis of livelihood recovery in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia. Ocean & Coastal Management. 142, 218-232.
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(2016). Nature Contained Environmental Histories of Singapore. Asian Journal of Social Science. 44, 630-632.
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(2015). Penultimate Predecessors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Sumatra: Stratigraphic, archeological, and historical evidence. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. 120(1), 308-325.
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(2013). Similar Events, Different Disasters: A Comparative Assessment of the Aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean and the 2011 Japan Tsunamis. AJEDM Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management. 5(1), 1-21.
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(2012). Cultural heritage and community recovery in post-tsunami Aceh. (Daly, P., Feener R M., & Reid A., Ed.).From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-tsunami and Post-conflict Aceh.
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(2012). Cultural heritage and community recovery in post-tsunami Aceh. (Daly, P., Feener R M., & Reid A., Ed.).From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-tsunami and Post-conflict Aceh.
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(2012). Pusaka budaya dan memulihan komunitas di Aceh pasca tsunami. (Daly, P., Feener R M., & Reid A., Ed.).Aceh Pasca Tsunami dan Pasca Conflik.
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(2012). Pusaka budaya dan memulihan komunitas di Aceh pasca tsunami. (Daly, P., Feener R M., & Reid A., Ed.).Aceh Pasca Tsunami dan Pasca Conflik.
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(2012). Introduction: Unpacking the challenges of post-2004 Aceh. (Daly, P., Feener R M., & Reid A., Ed.).
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(2012). Introduction: Unpacking the challenges of post-2004 Aceh. (Daly, P., Feener R M., & Reid A., Ed.).
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(2012). Pendahuluan: Menguak tantangan Aceh pasca-2004. (Daly, P., Feener R M., & Reid A., Ed.).Aceh Pasca Tsunami dan Pasca Conflik.
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(2012). Pendahuluan: Menguak tantangan Aceh pasca-2004. (Daly, P., Feener R M., & Reid A., Ed.).Aceh Pasca Tsunami dan Pasca Conflik.
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(2012). Aceh pascatsunami dan pascakonflik. (Daly, P., Feener R M., & Reid A., Ed.).Denpasar: Pustaka Larasan.
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(2012). Aceh pascatsunami dan pascakonflik. (Daly, P., Feener R M., & Reid A., Ed.).Denpasar: Pustaka Larasan.
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(2011). Aid Accountability and Participatory Approaches in Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction. Asian Journal of Social Science. 39(4), 508-33.
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(2011). Mapping the Acehnese past. (Feener, R M., Daly P., & Reid A., Ed.).
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(2006). Excavations at Marcham/ Frilford (2006). South Midlands Archaeology.
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(2005). Excavations at Marcham/ Frilford (2005). South Midlands Archaeology.
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(2004). Excavations at Marcham/ Frilford (2004). South Midlands Archaeology.
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(2003). Excavations at Marcham/ Frilford (2003). South Midlands Archaeology.
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(2020). Paleo-tsunami research along the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia: Science in the Covid-19 Pandemic. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
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(2016). Rebuilt risk: involuntary return, voluntary migration, and socioeconomic segregation in post-tsunami Aceh. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016.
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(2016). Births after a catastrophe: Understanding the nature of tsunami baby boom in post-tsunami (smong) 2004 in Aceh, Indonesia. International Conference on Family Planning.
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(2015). User modifications and alterations of post-disaster housing in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. 5th International Conference on Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies.
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(2015). The effectiveness and sustainability of livelihood asset replacement in post-tsunami Banda Aceh-Aceh Besar. 5th International Conference on Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies.
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(2015). Agriculture and aquaculture rehabilitation in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia. International Workshop on the Development of Disaster Resilient Communities to Enhance Economic Development and Social Welfare.