Angel Hsu
Social Sciences (Environmental Studies)
Assistant Professor
Email: angel.hsu@yale-nus.edu.sg
Email: angel.hsu@yale.edu
Website: www.datadrivenlab.org
An Assistant Professor of Social Sciences (Environmental Studies) at Yale-NUS College, Angel Hsu is Founder and Director of the Data-Driven Environmental Policy Lab (Data-Driven Lab), a multidisciplinary research team of policy researchers, data scientists, programmers, and visual communicators. Her research explores the intersection of science and policy and the use of data-driven approaches to understand environmental sustainability, particularly in the areas of climate change and energy, urbanisation and air quality. Her research projects apply large-scale datasets derived from satellite remote sensing and other spatially-explicit sources to evaluate environmental policy performance.
Focusing particularly on China and the Global South, Asst Prof Hsu has provided expert testimony to the US-China Economic Security and Review Commission and is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations and a Public Intellectual Program Fellow. In addition to publishing in academic journals, Asst Prof Hsu has been committed to public outreach and was a TED 2018 Age of Amazement Speaker and recognised as an inaugural Grist 50 leader. She previously held a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as an adjunct. She holds a PhD in Environmental Policy from Yale University, an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge, and a BS in Biology and BA in Political Science from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.
Data-driven approaches and applied data science to environmental policy evaluation, with a focus on China and the Global South
Climate change governance of non-state and subnational actors
Urbanisation and climate change
Big data and data innovation in the context of sustainable development
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Hsu, A., Weinfurter, A.J. & Xu, K. Aligning Sub-national Climate Actions for the Post-Paris Regime. Climatic Change (2017). doi:10.1007/s10584-017-1957-5.
Hsu, A., Y. Cheng, A. Weinfurter, K. Xu, and C. Yick. (2016). Track climate pledges of cities and companies. Nature 532: 303-305.
Hsu, A., A.S. Moffat, A.J. Weinfurter, and J.D. Schwartz. “Towards a New Climate Diplomacy.” Nature Climate Change 5, 501–503 (2015).
Chan, S., van Asselt, H., Hale, T., Abbott, K., Beisheim, M., Hoffmann, M., Guy, B., Höhne, Hsu, A., Pattberg, P., Pauw, P., Ramstein, C., and Widerberg, O. (2015). Reinvigorating international climate policy: A comprehensive framework for effective nonstate action. Global Policy, 6(4), 466-473. Recognized as one of Global Policy’s Top-10 cited papers.
Malik, O., A. Hsu, L. Johnson, and A. de Sherbinin. (2015) An Indicator of Global Wastewater Treatment to Inform the Sustainable Development Goals. Environmental Science and Policy, 48: 172-185.
Hsu, A. (2013). Limitations and Challenges of Provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus in China’s Environmental Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification. Environmental Practice, 15(3): 280-292.
Hsu, A., A. de Sherbinin, and H. Shi. (2012). Seeking truth from facts: the challenge of environmental indicator development in China. Environmental Development. 3: 39-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2012.05.001.
Hsu, A., A. Lloyd, and J.W. Emerson. (2013). What progress have we made since Rio? The 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and Pilot Trend EPI. Environmental Science and Policy, vol 33:171–185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2013.05.011.
Hsu, A., A. Reuben, D. Shindell, A. de Sherbinin, and M. Levy. (2013). Toward the Next Generation of Air Quality Monitoring. Atmospheric Environment. Atmospheric Environment, 80:561-570.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231013005578.
Quantitative Reasoning
Comparative Social Inquiry
Urbanisation and the Environment
Climate Science and Policy
China’s Energy and Environmental Sustainability Challenge
Environmental Studies Capstone Module