Angel Hsu
Social Sciences (Environmental Studies)
Assistant Professor
Email: angel.hsu@yale-nus.edu.sg
Email: angel.hsu@yale.edu
Website: www.datadriven.yale.edu
Dr Angel Hsu is an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences (Environmental Studies) at Yale-NUS College and Adjunct of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She is Founder and Director of Data-Driven Yale, 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.
Previously, Dr Hsu was a Research Analyst at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a non-profit environmental think-tank in Washington, DC, where she developed corporate greenhouse gas accounting and reporting initiatives in developing countries, including Mexico, Brazil, India, Philippines and China, where she managed and led WRI’s efforts. She has written in and been cited by major media outlets, including The Economist, The Atlantic, and The Guardian and has provided expert testimony for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. She holds a PhD in Forestry and Environmental Studies 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
(selected)
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.
Comparative Social Inquiry
Climate Science and Policy
China’s Energy and Environmental Sustainability Challenge
Urbanisation and Environment