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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I’m delighted to be featured by Stanford Civil & Environmental Engineering on how engineering training continues to shape my work in environmental politics, especially the “technical foundations” that help me engage policy design and regulation with more precision. cee.stanford.edu/news/alumni-...

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Delighted to be featured in🎙️@gldinstitute.bsky.social Fellow Interview🎙️ The transcript: bit.ly/gldsvshen We talk about: • why political will can produce short-term wins (think “Olympic Blue”), but durable sustainability needs institutions + science-informed policy tools 1/2

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🚨 New Policy Brief 🚨 How can citizen voices shape #ClimatePolicy in non-democracies? Drawing on lessons from #China ’s 2021 Henan flood, this @gldinstitute.bsky.social brief shows how citizen petitions can drive more efficient, cost-effective #ClimateAdaptation — even under #authoritarian rule.

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🚨New Policy Brief🚨 A fresh answer to a classic governance challenge—the 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗹-𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺: How principals can deploy 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 to reduce discretion, curb capture, and reshape agent incentives—with lasting effects. Now live @gldinstitute.bsky.social

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I'm delighted and honored to receive the 2025 @appam.bsky.social 🌍 World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance 🌍 polisci.wustl.edu/news/shiran-... recognizing a body of works on #pollution control, including: 1/5

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Concern over the flood and disaster preparedness spilled over beyond Henan—prompting petitions in unaffected provinces that explicitly referenced the 2021 Henan flood. 9/10

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The 2021 Henan flood stands out for the scale of destruction—and its political aftermath. Other major, but less devastating, floods did not trigger comparable surges in adaptation-related petitions on the LLMB. 8/10

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Topic modeling shows that appeals focused on concrete, localized vulnerabilities—demands that weren’t framed as “climate” issues but were functionally aligned with adaptation. 7/10

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Using a dynamic DiD model, I find a sustained rise in adaptation-related requests in Henan. These estimates are likely conservative, given: 1️⃣ Spillover effects in other provinces 2️⃣ Concurrent but less severe flooding elsewhere 6/10

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The flood triggered a sharp rise in climate adaptation petitions across Henan—a surge that persisted for months. 5/10

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🚨New Article🚨 What happens after a major climate disaster in developing and authoritarian contexts? My new study ‪@commsearth.nature.com‬ examines how citizens made adaptation demands to local governments in 🇨🇳 after the 2021 Henan flood. doi.org/10.1038/s432... 🧵 1/10

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Notably, the effect was indistinguishable from zero in 2018—a year with no active central campaigning, suggesting a sustained impact of regularized campaigns. 7/

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Using confidential government data, we find that firms with greater economic significance were more likely to violate standards prior to the CEI. After the CEI, this compliance gap narrowed and became statistically insignificant. 6/

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

retain discretion over enforcement, and enforcement data is often reported by agents themselves, creating opportunities for manipulation. This creates a classic principal-agent problem. 4/

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Let’s unpack this institutional innovation in a 🧵: Traditionally, governance tools emphasize either institutions or ad hoc campaigns. While institutions offer continuity, campaigns are mobilized for crisis or reform but are often unsustainable. Regularized campaigns combine features of both: 2/

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🚨New Paper🚨 How can governments sustain compliance improvements when institutions falter and ad hoc enforcement fades? Our paper offers a fresh answer to this governance puzzle. I'm so glad it overcame rounds of blocking and found a great home @psjeditor.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1111/psj.... 1/

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Interesting paper that resonated: top universities often favor disciplinary PhDs in hiring, prioritizing alignment with existing faculty over interdisciplinarity. Yet as global challenges grow more complex, interdisciplinary research is more essential than ever. 1/

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This paper introduces a replicable case-comparative procedure that accounts for concurrent trials. 4/

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

That needs to change—here's why. 3/

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🚨New Paper🚨 How do politics shape the outcomes of policy experiments? This study compares Chinese cities with similar goals and conditions, participating in the same experiments, but achieving different decarbonization results. Live @psjeditor.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/psj.... Highlights: 1/

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

The study highlights that these social competitions galvanized community leadership and fostered a sense of pride and coordination among residents. The reward for winning is a certificate. This presents a low-cost approach to mitigating air pollution. #CollectiveAction (5/7)

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Neighborhoods involved in the competition showed a 24% reduction in waste burning compared to control neighborhoods, with no evidence of a rebound effect 10 months after the final audit during the experimental period. #BehaviorChange (4/7)

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Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

🌍 Excited to share our latest research published in the PNAS 🌍 Our study investigates how social competition can effectively reduce informal waste burning in Nansana municipality, #Uganda. #AirQuality #SustainabilityScience #EnvironmentalPolicy A 🧵: (1/7)

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