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Laurie Servières

Associate Research Fellow

Center for International Studies (CERI)

Duration: from 21 October 2022 to 20 October 2025

Research Interest(s): Slum/informal settlements policies, up-grading and housing approaches; Sustainable development policies in Latin America and implementation of the 2030 Agenda ; Risk mitigation in cities and slums ; Colombian peace process and its implementation

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Public Policy

Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Geographical Area(s): Latin America and the Caribbean

Country(ies): Brazil, Colombia

Language(s): French, English, Portuguese

Biography

Laurie Servières holds a PhD in political science, international relations. She realized her thesis at Sciences Po, under the supervision of Guillaume Devin, and at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, under the supervision of Carlos Milani. Currently working as a freelance consultant in the cooperation field, she is a specialist of sustainable development issues and agendas. She focuses more specifically on urban and rural policies in Latin America. She also maintains her research activities, in line with her thesis questions and fieldworks on slum policies and the way social urban issues are addressed both locally and internationally.

Current Research

Slum policies and resilience; implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean; models circulations in the urban development field.

publications

  • Laurie Servieres. Building urban resilience and climate adaptation in African small island developing states after the COVID-19 crisis. United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). 2025, 33 p. ⟨hal-05166041⟩
  • Olivier Dabène, Laurie Servieres. Atlas América Latina y el Caribe. 17 iniciativas de desarrollo sostenible. Agence française de développement, 49 p., 2024, 9782379020186. ⟨hal-04424539⟩
  • Olivier Dabène, Laurie Servieres. Atlas Amérique latine et Caraïbes. 17 initiatives de développement durable. Agence française de développement, 49 p., 2024, 9782379020179. ⟨hal-04424503⟩
  • Laurie Servières. Ce que Mayotte nous dit du traitement de la question des bidonvilles en France. Métropolitiques, 2023, 5 p. ⟨10.56698/metropolitiques.1973⟩. ⟨hal-04424583⟩
  • Laurie Servières. Focus - Quelle place pour les habitants de bidonvilles dans la gouvernance climatique mondiale ?. Eberhard Kienle, Carola Klöck, Adrien Estève et Alain Dieckhoff (dir.). Un monde en crises, Presses de Sciences Po, pp.91-92, 2023, L'Enjeu mondial, 9782724641400. ⟨hal-04193939⟩
  • Laurie Servières. L'internationalisation de la question des "bidonvilles" et ses effets sur l'action publique en Colombie et au Brésil. Science politique. Institut d'études politiques de paris - Sciences Po; Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2022. Français. ⟨NNT : 2022IEPP0014⟩. ⟨tel-03867028⟩
  • Laurie Servieres. L’Amazonie en proie aux incendies… et aux calculs politiques. The Conversation France, 2019. ⟨hal-03392108⟩
  • Laurie Servieres. Colombie : la paix comme levier de politique internationale. L'Harmattan, pp.176, 2018, Inter-National, 9782343144948. ⟨hal-01743536⟩

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