(Isabelle) I Desportes
- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
- Room
- I4-04
- desportes@iss.nl
Profile
Isabelle Desportes is a PhD candidate working on the governance of disaster response, in particular the roel played by local actors.
She has an interdisciplinary background in Geography (B.Sc., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and International Development Studies (M.Sc., Universiteit van Amsterdam). Active in the fields of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and community resilience, Isabelle has previously carried out applied research missions in South East Europe, South Africa and Ethiopia for UNDP, the City of Cape Town, the African Centre for Cities, the University of Groningen and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. She has moreover worked on climate change for the International Federation of…
Isabelle Desportes is a PhD candidate working on the governance of disaster response, in particular the roel played by local actors.
She has an interdisciplinary background in Geography (B.Sc., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and International Development Studies (M.Sc., Universiteit van Amsterdam). Active in the fields of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and community resilience, Isabelle has previously carried out applied research missions in South East Europe, South Africa and Ethiopia for UNDP, the City of Cape Town, the African Centre for Cities, the University of Groningen and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. She has moreover worked on climate change for the International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent, and for French grassroots organizations.
- I. Desportes (2019). Getting relief to marginalised minorities: the response to cyclone Komen in 2015 in Myanmar. Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 4 (7), 1-16. doi: 10.1186/s41018-019-0053-z
- E.H.C. Kuipers, I. Desportes & M.A. Hordijk (2019). Of locals and insiders – a ‘localized’ humanitarian response to the 2017 Mocoa mudslide in Colombia? Disaster Prevention and Management. doi: 10.1108/DPM-12-2018-0384 [go to publisher's site]
- D. Hilhorst, I. Desportes & C. De Milliano (2019). Humanitarian governance and resilience building: Ethiopia in comparative perspective. Disasters, 43, S109-S131. doi: 10.1111/disa.12332 [go to publisher's site]
- I. Desportes, D.J.M. Hilhorst & H. Mandefro (2019). The humanitarian theatre: Drought response during Ethiopia's low-intensity conflict of 2016. Journal of Modern African Studies, 57 (1), 31-59. doi: 10.1017/S0022278X18000654
- I. Desportes & D.R. Colenbrander (2016). Navigating interests, navigating knowledge: towards an inclusive set-back delineation along Cape Town’s coastline. Habitat International, 54 (2), 124-135. doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.12.016
- I. Desportes, J. Waddel & M.A. Hordijk (2015). Improving flood risk governance through multi-stakeholder collaboration: a case study of Sweet Home informal settlement, Cape Town. South African Journal of Science. doi: 10.1080/03736245.2015.1052842
- I. Desportes (2015). Partners for Resilience in Ethiopia, Country Case for the Qualitative Process and Impact Study. : University of Groningen
- D. Hilhorst, R. Van Voorst, R.A. Mena, I. Desportes & S. Melis (2019). Disaster Response and Humanitarian Aid in Different Conflict Scenarios. : United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- R.S. van Voorst & I. Desportes (2018). (How) should scholars say what humanitarians can't? (blog). blISS - The ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice.
PhD Researcher
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
- Department
- ISS PhD