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Ileen is a PhD candidate in the department of Water and Climate Risk of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She obtained her Bachelor degree Civil Engineering at the TU Delft and continued there on the master Water Management. During her master thesis she studies local knowledge of farming communities in Southern Malawi in relation to drought forecasting and adaptation strategies. She has worked on several research studies in Southern Africa and collaborated with local universities and NGOs.
Currently, her PhD research focusses on the adaptation dynamics of rural communities to droughts by developing an agent-based model (ABM). She will simulate the interactions between drought risk, its direct and indirect impacts, and how agro-pastorialists respond to drought with adaptation measures. Her work is part of the DOWN2EARTH project in East Africa, funded by EU HORIZON 2020.
Expertise
Drought risk and adaptation.
Education
2020: MSc Water Management, TU Delft.
2017: BSc Civil Engineering, TU Delft.
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Drought impacts and community adaptation: Perspectives on the 2020–2023 drought in East Africa
Odongo, R. A., Schrieks, T., Streefkerk, I., de Moel, H., Busker, T., Haer, T., MacLeod, D., Michaelides, K., Singer, M., Assen, M., Otieno, G. & Loon, A. F. V., Mar 2025, In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 119, 105309, 105309.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Review article: Drought as a continuum – memory effects in interlinked hydrological, ecological, and social systems
Van Loon, A. F., Kchouk, S., Matanó, A., Tootoonchi, F., Alvarez-Garreton, C., Hassaballah, K. E. A., Wu, M., Wens, M. L. K., Shyrokaya, A., Ridolfi, E., Biella, R., Nagavciuc, V., Barendrecht, M. H., Bastos, A., Cavalcante, L., de Vries, F. T., Garcia, M., Mård, J., Streefkerk, I. N. & Teutschbein, C. & 23 others, , 2024, In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 24, 9, p. 3173-3205 33 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review
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A coupled agent-based model to analyse human-drought feedbacks for agropastoralists in dryland regions
Streefkerk, I. N., de Bruijn, J., Haer, T., Van Loon, A. F., Quichimbo, E. A., Wens, M., Hassaballah, K. & Aerts, J. C. J. H., 13 Jan 2023, In: Frontiers in Water. 4, p. 1-18 18 p., 1037971.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Contextualising seasonal climate forecasts by integrating local knowledge on drought in Malawi
Streefkerk, I. N., van den Homberg, M. J. C., Whitfield, S., Mittal, N., Pope, E., Werner, M., Winsemius, H. C., Comes, T. & Ertsen, M. W., Jan 2022, In: Climate Services. 25, p. 1-11 11 p., 100268.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Communication Structures and Decision Making Cues and Criteria to Support Effective Drought Warning in Central Malawi
Calvel, A., Werner, M., van den Homberg, M. J. C., Flamini, A. C., Streefkerk, I. N., Mittal, N., Whitfield, S., Vanya, C. L. & Boyce, C., Nov 2020, In: Frontiers in Climate. 2, November, p. 1-16 16 p., 578327.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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