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Ileen is a postdoctoral researcher 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.
Her PhD research focussed 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.
Expertise
Drought risk and adaptation.
Education
2020: MSc Water Management, TU Delft.
2017: BSc Civil Engineering, TU Delft.
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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 2 Zero Hunger -
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 15 Life on Land
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The effects of upstream water abstraction for commercial export farming on drought risk and impact of agropastoral communities in the drylands of Kenya
Streefkerk, I. N., Aerts, J. C. J. H., de Bruijn, J., Hassaballah, K., Odongo, R. A., Schrieks, T., Wasonga, O. & Van Loon, A. F., 2026, In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 30, 8, p. 2225-2245 21 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Drought risk and adaptation in East and Southern Africa: Capturing human-water feedbacks
Streefkerk, I. N., 24 Nov 2025, 219 p.Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD-Thesis - Research and graduation internal
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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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