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Employment (7)

University of Cape Town: Cape Town, ZA

2019-04-01 to present | Senior Researcher (African Climate and Development Initiative)
Employment
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Jiska de Groot

University of Cape Town: Cape Town, ZA

2015-01-01 to present | Group Leader: Energy, poverty and development (Energy Research Centre)
Employment
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Jiska de Groot

University of Plymouth/National Federation for Fishermen's Associations : Plymouth, Devon, GB

2012-02-02 to 2014-12-31 | Consultant - fishing effort displacement and offshore energy generation (Marine Institute)
Employment
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Jiska de Groot

University of Plymouth: Plymouth, GB

2011-01-01 to 2014-12-31 | Teacher and researcher (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences)
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Jiska de Groot

University of Plymouth: Plymouth, Devon, GB

2012-02-02 to 2013-12-31 | NERC Marine Renewable Energy Knowledge Exchange Researcher (Marine Institute)
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Jiska de Groot

University of Plymouth: Plymouth, Devon, GB

2013-05-10 to 2013-07-07 | Research Assistant carbon reduction in the tourism sector (Plymouth Business School)
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Jiska de Groot

University of the Sunshine Coast: Sippy Downs, Queensland, AU

2010-04-01 to 2011-07-01 | 2010-2011 | Research Assistant for the CSIRO Coastal Collaboration Cluster (Sustainability Research Centre)
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Jiska de Groot

Education and qualifications (4)

University of Plymouth: Plymouth, Devon, GB

2011-10-01 to 2015-05-01 | PhD (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Education
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Jiska de Groot

Wageningen University: Wageningen, NL

2006-09-01 to 2009-09-01 | MSc (Rural Development Sociology)
Education
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Jiska de Groot

Leiden University: Leiden, NL

2006-09-01 to 2009-09-01 | Anthropology and Development Sociology (Anthopology)
Education
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Jiska de Groot

Wageningen University: Wageningen, NL

2002-09-01 to 2005-07-01 | Bsc International Development Studies (Rural Development Sociology)
Education
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Jiska de Groot

Funding (3)

Streamlining marine energy consenting processes: Considering public attitudes in the development of public engagement strategies

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Jiska de Groot via DimensionsWizard
grade
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Socio-economic research on community and stakeholder attitudes towards marine renewable energy among far-rural and island communities

2012-05 to 2013-04 | Grant
Santander Banking (Santander, ES)
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Jiska de Groot

Climate Change and Coastal Zone Governance

2010-04 to 2011-04 | Salary award
CSIRO/University of the Sunshine Coast (Sippy Downs, Queensland, AU)
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Jiska de Groot

Works (27)

The informality-energy innovation-finance nexus: Sustainable business models for microgrid-based off-grid urban energy access

Energy Research and Social Science
2024-09-18 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 2214-6296
Contributors: Pailman W; Caprotti F; Bobbins K; de Groot J
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University of Cape Town

The ‘capability’ of South African energy governance to deliver urban sustainable transitions

Urban Research and Practice
2023-09-27 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 1753-5069
Contributors: Essex S; Caprotti F; De Groot JR; Phillips J; Baker L; Wolpe P; Reddy Y
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University of Cape Town

Beyond the Grid: The Micropolitics of Off‐Grid Energy in Qandu‐Qandu, South Africa

Antipode
2023-07-30 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 0066-4812
Contributors: Bobbins K; Caprotti F; De Groot JR; Pailman W; Moorlach MFC; Schloemann H; Densmore A; Finlay K; Fischat E; Siwali S
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University of Cape Town

Solar energy at the peri-urban frontier: An energy justice study of urban peripheries from Burkina Faso and South Africa

Energy Research & Social Science
2022-12-31 | Journal article
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Contributors: Cantoni Roberto; Caprotti Federico; De Groot J
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University of Cape Town

Aspirations to grow: when micro- and informal enterprises in the street food sector speak for themselves

Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research
2019-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2228-7566
Part of ISSN: 2251-7316
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Jiska de Groot

Understanding energy transitions: The changing versions of the modern infrastructure ideal and the ‘energy underclass’ in South Africa, 1860–2019

Energy Policy
2019-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0301-4215
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Jiska de Groot
grade
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Response to “Monyei, Jenkins, Serestina and Adewumi examining energy sufficiency and energy mobility in the global south through the energy justice framework”

Energy Policy
2019-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0301-4215
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Jiska de Groot

(forthcoming) A Sea of Troubles? Evaluating user conflicts in the development of ocean energy. In: Ocean Energy.

Ocean Energy. Edited by Glen Wright
2017 | Book chapter
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Jiska de Groot

(forthcoming) Attaining sustainable development by fuelling women’s empowerment? - Insights from the Energy-Gender-Entrepreneurship nexus

Energy Research and Social Science
2017 | Journal article
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Jiska de Groot

(forthcoming) Post-apartheid spatial inequalities and the built environment: drivers of energy vulnerability for the urban poor in South Africa

Energy Poverty and Vulnerability: A global Perspective. Edited by: Neil Simcock and Saska Petrova.
2017 | Book chapter
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Jiska de Groot

(forthcoming) Renewable energy and local development: seven lessons from the mining industry

Development Southern Africa
2017 | Journal article
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Jiska de Groot

Establishing a legal research agenda for ocean energy

Marine Policy
2016 | Journal article
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Jiska de Groot

The Winter Olympics: driving urban change, 1924-2022

Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World's Games, 1896-2020
2016 | Book chapter
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Jiska de Groot

Attitudes towards Marine Energy: Understanding the Values

2015 | Journal article
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Jiska de Groot

Investigating the co-existence of fisheries and offshore renewable energy in the UK: Identification of a mitigation agenda for fishing effort displacement

Ocean & Coastal Management
2014 | Journal article
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Jiska de Groot

The Fisheries and Marine Renewable Energy Working Group: creating an agenda for improved co-existence.

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
2014 | Conference paper
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Jiska de Groot

Coastal towns in transition: local perceptions of landscape change

2012 | Other
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Jiska de Groot

Comparison of national policy frameworks for marine renewable energy within the United Kingdom and France

2012 | Journal article
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Jiska de Groot

Understanding the role of stakeholders in the wave energy consenting process: engagement and sensitivities

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ocean Energy, Dublin
2012 | Conference paper
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Jiska de Groot

The potential for dive tourism led entrepreneurial marine protected areas in Curacao

Marine Policy
2010 | Journal article
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Jiska de Groot

Entrepreneurial Marine Protected Areas Established by the Dive Tourism Industry: The Case of Curacao

2009 | Book
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Jiska de Groot

COVID-19 responses: infrastructure inequality and privileged capacity to transform everyday life in South Africa

Environment and Urbanization
Journal article
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Contributors: de Groot J; Lemanski C.
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University of Cape Town

Is (in)access to infrastructure driven by physical delivery or weak governance? Power and knowledge asymmetries in Cape Town, South Africa

Geoforum
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Contributors: Haque AN; Lemanski C; de Groot JR
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University of Cape Town

Rethinking education for SDG 7: A framework for embedding gender and critical skills in energy access masters programmes in Africa

Energy Research & Social Science
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Contributors: Pailman W; De Groot JR
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University of Cape Town

Rethinking the off-grid city

Urban Geography
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Part of ISSN: 0272-3638
Contributors: Caprotti F; De Groot JR; Bobbins K; Mathebula N; Butler C; Moorlach MFC; Schloemann H; Densmore A; Finlay K.
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University of Cape Town

Scales of governance: Translating multiscalar transitional pathways in South Africa’s energy landscape

Energy Research & Social Science
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Part of ISSN: 2214-6296
Contributors: Caprottia F; Essex S; Phillips J; de Groot JR; Bakere L
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University of Cape Town

Why do low-income urban dwellers reject energy technologies? Exploring the socio-cultural acceptance of solar adoption in Mumbai and Cape Town

Energy Research & Social Science
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Part of ISSN: 2214-6296
Contributors: Haque AN; Lemanski C; De Groot JR.
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University of Cape Town