Poul Holm

Biographic Data

ID602076
NAMEPoul Holm
GIVEN NAMESPoul
FAMILY NAMEHolm
SIGNATUREHOLM P
AFFILIATIONSTrinity College Dublin
ORCID0000-0003-3927-3308
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS224
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Introduction to Food Security and Sustainability: Knowledge, Communication, Politics

    Open AccessHelena Bilandzic, Sina Bremer et al.ARTICLEEuropean Review2026References: 1

    The Task Force on Environment, Sustainability and Climate (TFESC) of Academia Europaea investigates ways of enhancing global science policy communication on the topic of food security and sustainability. This Focus reports the initial outcome of this investigation in the form of three articles. First, given the complexity of the link between food security and sustainability, and in particular the two-way relation between the impact of food produc…

  • Explaining major shifts in early-modern economies: The causes for the decline of the North Sea Fisheries of Southwest Denmark, 1537–1657

    Open AccessPoul HolmARTICLEScandinavian Economic History…2025

    In the early modern period, the region of southwest Jutland, Denmark, faced international competition and climate change. By the early sixteenth century, the region enjoyed remarkable wealth thanks to a booming fish trade. Catches peaked at levels not surpassed before the twentieth century, and the trade in North Sea herring, haddock, cod, plaice, and skate supported thousands of fishers and merchants. Fishing benefitted from favourable environme…

  • Marine resource procurement as everyday resistance in Ireland during the Great Hunger (1845–1852)

    Open AccessEmily Schwalbe, Rory Connolly et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Maritime…2025

    This article seeks to challenge dominant narratives surrounding the Great Hunger in Ireland (An Gorta Mór, 1845–1852) by focusing on the often-overlooked aspect of marine resource exploitation. Traditional historiography of the famine typically centres on the failure of the potato crop, British colonial policies and the resulting socio-economic devastations. However, this narrative largely omits the daily survival strategies and forms of resistan…

  • Evaluating French Whaling Expeditions from the 16th to the 19th Centuries

    Open AccessBernard Allaire, John Nicholls et al.ARTICLEHistoire & Mesure2025

    The history of French whaling is familiar to a small group of specialists, but the lack of sources and the opacity of maritime statistics in the Early Modern period have long discouraged researchers wishing to assess its extent, not only for French fleets but also for those of other nations. The history of the French whaling industry has been studied for certain regions and periods, but no one has really attempted to give a global panorama by eva…

  • A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE

    Open AccessCordula Scherer, Francis Ludlow et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2024References: 7

    The North Sea region boasted one of the world’s most important fisheries for many centuries. Climate directly and indirectly influences the development and survival of many important pelagic fish in the North Sea ecosystem. One indirect influence is the food availability in the form of phyto- and zooplankton abundance, which is strongly controlled by environmental factors. One of these environmental factors is local sea surface temperatures. A ne…

  • Historical marine footprint for Atlantic Europe, 1500–2019

    Open AccessPoul Holm, Patrick Hayes et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2024References: 27

    Over the last 500 years, Europe (excluding Russia) consumed over 2500 million tonnes of ocean biomass. This is based on detailed historical data that we provide for human consumption per capita which was stable from 1500 to 1899 and tripled in the twentieth century. In the last 300 years, cod and herring dominated human seafood consumption. Whaling for non-food uses peaked in the 1830s and declined as cetaceans became scarce. Seafood consumption …

  • Tasting the ocean: How to increase ocean literacy using seafood heritage with a visceral approach

    Open AccessAgnese Cretella, Cordula Scherer et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2023

    This contribution explores the growing interest in ocean literacy and sustainable seafood consumption through the lens of transdisciplinary and visceral research methods. It illustrates a series of experimental, marine-focused workshops, carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic for Irish students aged between 15 and 18. The empirical body builds on a series of questionnaires completed prior, during and at the end of the workshops as well as direc…

  • The North Atlantic Fish Revolution (ca. AD 1500)

    Open AccessPoul Holm, Francis Ludlow et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2022

    We propose the concept of the “Fish Revolution” to demarcate the dramatic increase in North Atlantic fisheries after AD 1500, which led to a 15-fold increase of cod ( Gadus morhua ) catch volumes and likely a tripling of fish protein to the European market. We consider three key questions: (1) What were the environmental parameters of the Fish Revolution? (2) What were the globalising effects of the Fish Revolution? (3) What were the consequences…

  • The Price of Fish in French Supply Contracts (1538-1751): A Quantitative Approach to the Early Modern French Fish Market

    Bernard Allaire, Poul HolmARTICLEFood and History2022

    This quantitative study of commodity prices examines the early modern food market, a period and topic widely neglected by historians owing to a lack of data or palaeographic expertise that has prompted scholars to turn their attention to later periods. Despite the ubiquitous presence of fish in European food markets, specialists have difficulty identifying its consumption levels or price. This paper provides a large panorama of qualitative observ…

  • Archaeology for the Humanities

    Open AccessPoul HolmARTICLECurrent Swedish Archaeology2021

  • The Capacity Trend Method: A new approach for enumerating the Newfoundland cod fisheries (1675–1790)

    Open AccessJohn Nicholls, Bernard Allaire et al.ARTICLEHistorical Methods A Journal of…2021Cited by: 1References: 24

    We apply a novel methodology to the study of the Newfoundland cod fisheries in order to determine a reasoned and acceptable chronological value series for total catch amounts in the early modern period where data are scarce. The paper focuses on the two main protagonists in the Newfoundland fisheries arena in that period: France and England. The period 1675–1790 has been selected as a viable and representative chronology for a case study where da…

  • Inventing the Grand Banks: A deep chart

    Open AccessCharles Travis, Francis Ludlow et al.ARTICLEGeo Geography and Environment2020Cited by: 1References: 28

    As a feature of the Fish Revolution (1400-1700), the early modern "invention" of the Grand Banks in literary and cartographical documents facilitated a massive and unprecedented extraction of cod from the waters of the north Atlantic and created the Cod/Sack trade Triangle. This overlapped with the southern Atlantic Slave, Sugar, and Tobacco Triangle to capitalise modern European and North American societies. In 1719, Pierre de Charlevoix claimed…

  • Effective strategies that enhance the social impact of social sciences and humanities research

    Open AccessEmilia Aiello, Claire Donovan et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2020Cited by: 19References: 5

    Background We are witnessing increasing demand from governments and society for all sciences to have relevant social impact and to show the returns they provide to society. Aims and objectives This paper reports strategies that promote social impact by Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research projects. Methods An in-depth analysis of six Social Sciences and Humanities research projects that achieved social impact was carried out to identify …

  • European naval diets in the sixteenth century: A quantitative method for comparative and nutritional analysis

    Open AccessPatrick W Hayes, J A Matthews et al.ARTICLEHistorical Methods A Journal of…2019Cited by: 2References: 28

    This paper develops and utilizes novel methods that combine historical records concerning the diets of European naval mariners in the sixteenth century with modern information on the nutritional content of food. Energy, vitamin, and mineral intakes were compared to modern recommended values. Calorie provisions were sufficient and relatively constant in all Western European fleets. The absence of vitamin C was a universal failure of the naval diet…

  • Cartographical Perspectives on the Evolution of Fisheries in Newfoundland’s Grand Banks Area and Adjacent North Atlantic Waters in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    Open AccessK J Rankin, Kieran Rankin et al.ARTICLETerrae Incognitae2019

    At the turn of the sixteenth century, John Cabot and his successors discovered abundant fish stocks in the north west Atlantic waters near Newfoundland. This article accounts for how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century mapping provide another strand of evidence that supplement our knowledge of the subsequent Iberian, French, and British fisheries. Such cartography exhibited significant mutations and innovations in rendering fishing locations, and …

  • A review of literature on evaluating the scientific, social and political impact of social sciences and humanities research

    Open AccessEmanuela Reale, Dragana Avramov et al.ARTICLEResearch Evaluation2018

    Recently, the need to contribute to the evaluation of the scientific, social, and political impact of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research has become a demand of policy makers and society. The international scientific community has made significant advances that have transformed the impact of evaluation landscape. This article reviews the existing scientific knowledge on evaluation tools and techniques that are applied to assess the scie…

  • Humanities for the Environment 2018 Report—Ways to Here, Ways Forward

    Open AccessPoul Holm, Ruth BrennanARTICLEHumanities2018

    We introduce the Humanities for the Environment (HfE) 2018 Report. The HfE 2018 Report consists of two publications; of which this Special Issue is one. The other is a special section of the journal Global and Planetary Change 156 (2017); 112–175. While the Humanities special issue may primarily reach our colleagues in the humanities disciplines; the Global and Planetary Change section reaches out to that journal’s primary readership of earth sci…

  • The Exploited Seas: New Directions for Marine Environmental History

    Open AccessPoul Holm, Tim D Smith et al.BOOKThe exploited seas2017

  • Commercial Sea Fisheries in the Baltic Region c. AD 1000–1600

    Poul HolmCHAPTERCod and Herring2016

  • Historical Fishing Communities

    Open AccessPoul HolmCHAPTERPerspectives on Oceans Past2016

  • Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action

    Open AccessPoul Holm, Joni Adamson et al.ARTICLEHumanities2015

    Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to move beyond rational choice and behavioral decision theories, which do not capture the full range of commitments, assumptions, imaginaries, and belief systems that drive those preferences and actions. Humanities disciplines, such a…

  • Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time

    Poul HolmARTICLEThe Journal of Island and Coastal…2015Cited by: 5

    Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time." The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 11(2), pp. 307–308

  • Conclusion: Learning from Asian and Indo-Pacific Fisheries history

    Open AccessPoul HolmCHAPTERHistorical Perspectives of…2014

  • Humanities World Report 2015

    Open AccessPoul Holm, Arne Jarrick et al.BOOKHumanities World Report 20152014Cited by: 8References: 1

    Social Policy, Culture and Media Policy, Literature, Cultural Theory

  • Responses to environmental and societal challenges for our unstable earth

    Open AccessJill Jäger, Poul Holm et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2013Cited by: 5