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About Bas Bolman

Bas Bolman develops and implements international projects relating to maritime activities such as fisheries, aquaculture and offshore wind. These projects are integrated and multidisciplinary by nature and often connect to topics such marine governance, Blue Economy (BE), Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), climate change and multi-use. In BE/ICZM/MSP processes he is often involved in framework and indicator development in interaction with policy makers and other stakeholders.

Currently Bolman is involved in the MuMaCo-project in Indonesia, aiming to assess the feasibility of green mussel cultivation on bamboo structures that have the potential to also reduce erosion. In 2021/2022 he managed the World Bank project Comoros Country Environmental Assessment. In 2021 he successfully completed a World Bank project Support for articulating the BE and coastal adaptation investment priorities for Seychelles’ climate resilience. In 2020 he was project leader to the support of the government of Mozambique to develop a sustainable BE roadmap, for clients World Bank and ProAzul. Another recently completed project is the BE Sustainability Framework, with criteria and indicators for blue economy sectors inside and outside the EU for client EASME / DG MARE. From 2017-2020 Bolman was involved in the development of indicators for the Kuwait ICZM framework.

Bas is also a member of the Scientific Board at the North Sea Foundation.

Working experience

  1. Deltares

    Senior advisor Marine and Coastal Management

    2017 - present

  2. Wageningen Economic Research (formerly LEI)

    Aquaculture Researcher & Project Developer

    2014 - 2017

  3. Wageningen Marine Research (formerly IMARES)

    Programme Coordinator Arctic, offshore and maritime operations

    2011 - 2014

  4. Center for Marine Policy

    Project Developer Marine and Coastal Management

    2011 - 2012

  5. Wageningen Marine Research (formerly IMARES)

    Project manager maritime/offshore operations

    2010 - 2011

  6. Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (Netherlands)

    Process coordinator implementation of fisheries and aquaculture regulations

    2008 - 2010

Publications

  1. Characterization of sdgs towards coastal management: Sustainability performance and cross-linking consequences - Sustainability, 13(3), 1560

    Schipper, C. A., Dekker, G. G., de Visser, B., Bolman, B., & Lodder, Q. (2021).

  2. Unravelling the myth–the use of decisions support systems in marine management. Marine Policy, 87, 241-249.

    Bolman, B., Jak, R. G., & van Hoof, L. (2018).

  3. Multiple pressures and their combined effects in Europe’s seas. ETC (p. 164). ICM Technical Report 4/2019: European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine Waters.

    Korpinen, S., Klančnik, K., Peterlin, M., Nurmi, M., Laamanen, L., Zupančič, G., Popit, A., Reker, J., Murray, C., Harvey, T., Andersen, J. H., Zenetos, A., Stein, U., Abhold, K., Tunesi, L., Agnesi, S., Piet, G. J., Bolman, B., Kallenbach, E., Vaughan, D., & Royo Gelabert, E. (2019).

  4. Mobilizing investors for blue growth. Frontiers in Marine Science

    Stuiver, M., Bolman, B. C., Wijnen, R., Selnes, T., & Dalton, G. (2017).

  5. The feasibility of offshore aquaculture and its potential for multi-use in the North Sea. Aquaculture international, 24, 735-756.

    Jansen, H. M., Van Den Burg, S., Bolman, B., Jak, R. G., Kamermans, P., Poelman, M., & Stuiver, M. (2016).

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