Holle Linnea Wlokas

Diplom/MPhil (Freie Universitaet Berlin)

Holle Linnea Wlokas- Energy, Poverty and Development team- Energy Research Centre

email: holle.wlokas@uct.ac.za

Qualifications

Diplom (equivalent to a Masters degree) in Political Science from the Freie Universitaet in Berlin, Germany (2010). And two years of studies of Political Science, Geography and Psychology at the Rheinisch-Westfaelisch Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany.

Current research interests

– Socio-economic development through renewable energy projects
– Mitigation and poverty
– Cooking fuels in the informal economy
– Pro-poor projects on the carbon market

Previous work experience

Holle was involved during her time as a student in the monitoring and social research in the Kuyasa CDM Project. Subsequently she led the social research in a pilot solar water heating project for the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. She worked in short-term assignments with NGO’s like Friends of the Earth in Germany and SouthSouthNorth and consultancies like Eco Ltd. and Restio Energy Ltd in Cape Town.

Papers

Wlokas, H, Rennkamp, B, Torres, M, Winkler, H, Boyd, A, Tyler, E & Fedorsky, C (2012). Low Carbon Development and Poverty: Exploring poverty alleviating mitigation action in developing countries. MAPS Working Paper. Cape Town, University of Cape Town.

Wlokas, H.L, Boyd, A., Andolfi, M., forthcoming. The potential for local community benefits in private sector-led renewable energy projects in South Africa: an evolving approach. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa.

Wlokas, H.L, 2011. What can solar water heating contribute to the livelihoods of low-income households? Domestic Use of Energy Conference, 11.-13. April 2011.

Wlokas, H.L., 2009. The impacts of climate change on food security and health in Southern Africa. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa 19 (4): 12-20.

Melamu, R., Boyd, A., Wlokas, H., Roden, B., Austin, G., von Blottnitz, H., 2010. Stakeholder collaboration and learning during the concept design phase of an urban biogas project. Knowledge collaboration& learning for sustainable innovation: ERSCP-EMSU Conference. 26-28 October, Cape Town, South Africa and Delft, Netherlands.

Academic conference posters and presentations

Wlokas, H., 2012. Socio-technical transition applied to retrofitting low-income housing- watching a CDM become a NAMA. Presented at: International Urban Retrofit Workshop: Theories and Concepts, Dynamics and Practices, Politics and Implications, 13^th – 14^th September 2012, Manchester, UK.

Wlokas, H. and Boyd, A., 2012. How can national mitigation actions foster community development? The case of low-carbon community development around wind farm projects in South Africa. Presented at:  World Wind Energy Congress 2012 Community power- citizens’ power, 3-5 July, Bonn, Germany.

Boyd, A., Rennkomp, B., Wlokas, H., Coetzee, K., 2012. Multi-stakeholder led processes & multidisciplinary research in low carbon planning in developing countries: Considering the role of technological capacity in national development priorities in selecting appropriate mitigation actions. Presented at: Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty? 29-31 May, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Boulle, M., Prasad, G., Boyd, A., Rahlao, S., Wlokas, H., Yaholnitsky, I., 2012. The water-energy nexus in the context of climate change in Southern Africa. Presented at: World Congress on Water, Climate and Energy. 14.-16. May, Dublin, Ireland.

Wlokas, H. and E. Corbera, 2009. Development benefits in the Kuyasa low-income housing CDM project in South Africa. Presented at: Earth System Governance: People, Places and the Planet Conference. 2-4 December, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.