Nico Polman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1573715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nico Polman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nico |
| FAMILY NAME | Polman |
| SIGNATURE | POLMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6412-5345 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From local innovation to sustainable urban food systems: Lessons on scaling from eleven European cities
Promoting sustainable urban food systems has proven to be a challenging task for many urban administrations. This requires a systemic approach that considers the entire food supply chain and the crucial role which cities and urban policies can play in influencing food systems transition. While cities are pioneering many local innovations, scaling these towards a transition remains a challenge. This longitudinal study followed eleven European citi…
European coastal wetlands datasets and their use in decision-support tools for policy restoration objectives
Roadmap to develop a stress test for forest ecosystem services supply
Forests play a key role in a bio-based economy by providing renewable materials, mitigating climate change, and accommodating biodiversity. However, forests experience massive increases in stresses in their ecological and socioeconomic environments, threatening forest ecosystem services supply. Alleviating those stresses is hampered by conflicting and disconnected governance arrangements, competing interests and claims, and rapid changes in techn…
Modelling choices and social interactions with a threshold public good: Investment decisions in a polder in Bangladesh
Farmers in South-West Bangladesh face excess precipitation in monsoon season, which cannot be discharged to the silted-up rivers. In low lying polders, this leads to waterlogging. Consequently, the water level in the polder remains too high for reliable rice production during the monsoon and the following season, and therefore rice is often grown in the dry season (Rabi) only, which leads to reduced yearly yield and income. The objective is to mo…
Social innovation: A preliminary exploration of a contested concept
This paper explores the contested concept of social innovation by using the ideas of discourse and framing as a lens to explore the contested definitions of social innovation. A selection of definitions is then deconstructed in relation to these discourses and framings. It is argued that the political pressures which create interest in social innovation have resulted in a confused and contested series of definitions, which remain largely unconnec…
An exploration of potential growth pathways of social innovations in rural Europe
This paper explores the range of expansion/development/growth pathways (or scaling) that might occur with social innovations, with reference to social innovation in rural areas. It explores the lack of a clear conceptualization of both social innovation as a phenomenon and the possible growth and expansion pathways that might arise. Based on a survey of the diverse literature on the expansion/development/growth pathways of social innovations, and…
Beyond the single farm – A spatial econometric analysis of spill-overs in farm diversification in the Netherlands
Farm diversification is an important component of rural development and policy in Europe. We examine the influence of neighbouring farms on farm diversification decisions. Our analysis investigates spill-over effects between farms and different activities in a spatial econometric framework. Using census data from about 66,000 farms in the Netherlands, we find significant correlations of diversification activities between spatially proximate farms…
Stakeholder contributions through transitions towards urban sustainability
The challenges for liveable, healthy and food secure cities worldwide are immense to future developments due to a worldwide increase in urban population, pressure on natural resources including water and biodiversity, climate change, as well as economic volatility. The quality of life in urban areas fully depends upon how people deal with each other and with their environment through transitions towards improved sustainability. The way in which s…
Understanding social innovation for the well-being of forest-dependent communities: A preliminary theoretical framework
Partnering for nature conservation
In order to reverse the trend of continuous decline in species diversity and abundance in agricultural landscapes, various governance arrangements have been implemented that promote, organise and finance nature conservation by farmers. The scientific literature predominantly focuses on agri-environment schemes (AES), i.e. publicly funded financial compensation schemes for farmers who implement prescribed conservation measures. Less attention has …
Collaborative governance arrangements to deliver spatially coordinated agri-environmental management
Governance of ecosystem services on small islands: Three contrasting cases for St. Eustatius in the Dutch Caribbean
Natural ecosystems provide an attractive focus for tourism on small islands. However, at the same time tourism and other human actions can be detrimental to these ecosystems especially because governance of the ecosystem may be difficult due to the limited resilience of small island ecosystems. In this paper, we focus on the conditions under which self-governance will be the appropriate governance mechanism of ecosystem services on small islands.…
Scale‐sensitive Governance of the Environment
Sensitivity to scales is one of the key challenges in environmental governance. Climate change, food production, energy supply, and natural resource management are examples of environmental challenges that stretch across scales and require action at multiple levels. Governance systems are typically ill-equipped for this task due to organisational and jurisdictional specialisation and short-term planning horizons. Further to this, scientific knowl…
Scale-Sensitive Governance of the Environment
Resilience-based governance in rural landscapes: Experiments with agri-environment schemes using a spatially explicit agent-based model
Cost-benefit analysis of the Dutch nature policy: Transaction costs and land market impacts
From Scaling to Governance of the Land System: Bridging Ecological and Economic Perspectives
Veldkamp, A., N. Polman, S. Reinhard, and M. Slingerland. 2011. From scaling to governance of the land system: bridging ecological and economic perspectives. Ecology and Society 16(1): 1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03691-160101
Economic Governance to Expand Commercial Wetlands: Within- and Cross-Scale Challenges
De Blaeij, A. T., N. Polman, and S. Reinhard. 2011. Economic governance to expand commercial wetlands: within- and cross-scale challenges. Ecology and Society 16(1): 33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03933-160133
Why are Dutch farmers going multifunctional
Why are Dutch farmers going multifunctional
Collaborative governance arrangements to deliver spatially coordinated agri-environmental management
Cost-benefit analysis of the Dutch nature policy: Transaction costs and land market impacts
Resilience-based governance in rural landscapes: Experiments with agri-environment schemes using a spatially explicit agent-based model
Understanding social innovation for the well-being of forest-dependent communities: A preliminary theoretical framework
From Scaling to Governance of the Land System: Bridging Ecological and Economic Perspectives
Veldkamp, A., N. Polman, S. Reinhard, and M. Slingerland. 2011. From scaling to governance of the land system: bridging ecological and economic perspectives. Ecology and Society 16(1): 1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03691-160101
Partnering for nature conservation
In order to reverse the trend of continuous decline in species diversity and abundance in agricultural landscapes, various governance arrangements have been implemented that promote, organise and finance nature conservation by farmers. The scientific literature predominantly focuses on agri-environment schemes (AES), i.e. publicly funded financial compensation schemes for farmers who implement prescribed conservation measures. Less attention has …
An exploration of potential growth pathways of social innovations in rural Europe
This paper explores the range of expansion/development/growth pathways (or scaling) that might occur with social innovations, with reference to social innovation in rural areas. It explores the lack of a clear conceptualization of both social innovation as a phenomenon and the possible growth and expansion pathways that might arise. Based on a survey of the diverse literature on the expansion/development/growth pathways of social innovations, and…
Beyond the single farm – A spatial econometric analysis of spill-overs in farm diversification in the Netherlands
Farm diversification is an important component of rural development and policy in Europe. We examine the influence of neighbouring farms on farm diversification decisions. Our analysis investigates spill-over effects between farms and different activities in a spatial econometric framework. Using census data from about 66,000 farms in the Netherlands, we find significant correlations of diversification activities between spatially proximate farms…
Governance of ecosystem services on small islands: Three contrasting cases for St. Eustatius in the Dutch Caribbean
Natural ecosystems provide an attractive focus for tourism on small islands. However, at the same time tourism and other human actions can be detrimental to these ecosystems especially because governance of the ecosystem may be difficult due to the limited resilience of small island ecosystems. In this paper, we focus on the conditions under which self-governance will be the appropriate governance mechanism of ecosystem services on small islands.…
Why are Dutch farmers going multifunctional
From Scaling to Governance of the Land System: Bridging Ecological and Economic Perspectives
Veldkamp, A., N. Polman, S. Reinhard, and M. Slingerland. 2011. From scaling to governance of the land system: bridging ecological and economic perspectives. Ecology and Society 16(1): 1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03691-160101
Economic Governance to Expand Commercial Wetlands: Within- and Cross-Scale Challenges
De Blaeij, A. T., N. Polman, and S. Reinhard. 2011. Economic governance to expand commercial wetlands: within- and cross-scale challenges. Ecology and Society 16(1): 33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03933-160133
Cost-benefit analysis of the Dutch nature policy: Transaction costs and land market impacts
Resilience-based governance in rural landscapes: Experiments with agri-environment schemes using a spatially explicit agent-based model
Scale‐sensitive Governance of the Environment
Sensitivity to scales is one of the key challenges in environmental governance. Climate change, food production, energy supply, and natural resource management are examples of environmental challenges that stretch across scales and require action at multiple levels. Governance systems are typically ill-equipped for this task due to organisational and jurisdictional specialisation and short-term planning horizons. Further to this, scientific knowl…
Scale-Sensitive Governance of the Environment
Governance of ecosystem services on small islands: Three contrasting cases for St. Eustatius in the Dutch Caribbean
Natural ecosystems provide an attractive focus for tourism on small islands. However, at the same time tourism and other human actions can be detrimental to these ecosystems especially because governance of the ecosystem may be difficult due to the limited resilience of small island ecosystems. In this paper, we focus on the conditions under which self-governance will be the appropriate governance mechanism of ecosystem services on small islands.…
Collaborative governance arrangements to deliver spatially coordinated agri-environmental management
Stakeholder contributions through transitions towards urban sustainability
The challenges for liveable, healthy and food secure cities worldwide are immense to future developments due to a worldwide increase in urban population, pressure on natural resources including water and biodiversity, climate change, as well as economic volatility. The quality of life in urban areas fully depends upon how people deal with each other and with their environment through transitions towards improved sustainability. The way in which s…
Understanding social innovation for the well-being of forest-dependent communities: A preliminary theoretical framework
Partnering for nature conservation
In order to reverse the trend of continuous decline in species diversity and abundance in agricultural landscapes, various governance arrangements have been implemented that promote, organise and finance nature conservation by farmers. The scientific literature predominantly focuses on agri-environment schemes (AES), i.e. publicly funded financial compensation schemes for farmers who implement prescribed conservation measures. Less attention has …
Beyond the single farm – A spatial econometric analysis of spill-overs in farm diversification in the Netherlands
Farm diversification is an important component of rural development and policy in Europe. We examine the influence of neighbouring farms on farm diversification decisions. Our analysis investigates spill-over effects between farms and different activities in a spatial econometric framework. Using census data from about 66,000 farms in the Netherlands, we find significant correlations of diversification activities between spatially proximate farms…
Social innovation: A preliminary exploration of a contested concept
This paper explores the contested concept of social innovation by using the ideas of discourse and framing as a lens to explore the contested definitions of social innovation. A selection of definitions is then deconstructed in relation to these discourses and framings. It is argued that the political pressures which create interest in social innovation have resulted in a confused and contested series of definitions, which remain largely unconnec…
An exploration of potential growth pathways of social innovations in rural Europe
This paper explores the range of expansion/development/growth pathways (or scaling) that might occur with social innovations, with reference to social innovation in rural areas. It explores the lack of a clear conceptualization of both social innovation as a phenomenon and the possible growth and expansion pathways that might arise. Based on a survey of the diverse literature on the expansion/development/growth pathways of social innovations, and…
Roadmap to develop a stress test for forest ecosystem services supply
Forests play a key role in a bio-based economy by providing renewable materials, mitigating climate change, and accommodating biodiversity. However, forests experience massive increases in stresses in their ecological and socioeconomic environments, threatening forest ecosystem services supply. Alleviating those stresses is hampered by conflicting and disconnected governance arrangements, competing interests and claims, and rapid changes in techn…
Modelling choices and social interactions with a threshold public good: Investment decisions in a polder in Bangladesh
Farmers in South-West Bangladesh face excess precipitation in monsoon season, which cannot be discharged to the silted-up rivers. In low lying polders, this leads to waterlogging. Consequently, the water level in the polder remains too high for reliable rice production during the monsoon and the following season, and therefore rice is often grown in the dry season (Rabi) only, which leads to reduced yearly yield and income. The objective is to mo…
From local innovation to sustainable urban food systems: Lessons on scaling from eleven European cities
Promoting sustainable urban food systems has proven to be a challenging task for many urban administrations. This requires a systemic approach that considers the entire food supply chain and the crucial role which cities and urban policies can play in influencing food systems transition. While cities are pioneering many local innovations, scaling these towards a transition remains a challenge. This longitudinal study followed eleven European citi…
European coastal wetlands datasets and their use in decision-support tools for policy restoration objectives
Business (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Corporate governance (9 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Environmental Conservation and Management (5 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 works)