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73

Overview

Nico Heerink is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and focuses primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research covers multiple interconnected subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics addressed in Heerink's work involve Land Rights and Reforms, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Housing Market and Economics, Energy and Environment Impacts, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, as well as China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance.

Heerink has contributed to several recent publications, reflecting a focus on systems, environmental sustainability, and socio-economic aspects of rural development, particularly in China:

  • Upscaling farming operations, agricultural mechanization and chemical pesticide usage: A macro-analysis of Jiangsu Province, China (2022, Journal of Cleaner Production)
  • Farm size and smallholders' use of intercropping in Northwest China (2020, Land Use Policy)
  • Off-farm employment and household clean energy transition in rural China: A study based on a gender perspective (2023, Energy)
  • More use or cleaner use? Income growth and rural household energy-related carbon emissions in central China (2022, Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable development)
  • Impact of participatory irrigation management on mulched drip irrigation technology adoption in rural Xinjiang, China (2020, Water Resources and Economics)

Heerink frequently collaborates with other scholars, including Shuyi Feng, Xianlei Ma, Xueqin Zhu, Huayi Chang, and Junbiao Zhang, indicating ongoing cooperative research efforts primarily within the domain of agricultural economics and rural development.

Their work has been published across various venues, several of which have featured more than one of their studies. Frequent journals and publication venues include:

  • Land Use Policy
  • Energy
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable development
  • Review of Development Economics

Best Publications

  • Income inequality and the environment: aggregation bias in environmental Kuznets curves

    Nico Heerink;Abay Mulatu;Erwin Bulte

  • Land fragmentation and its driving forces in China

    Shuhao Tan;Shuhao Tan;Nico Heerink;Nico Heerink;Futian Qu

  • Impact of land fragmentation on rice producers' technical efficiency in South-East China

    S. Tan;S. Tan;N. Heerink;N. Heerink;A. Kuyvenhoven;F. Qu

  • Ethiopian Agricultural Cooperatives in an Era of Global Commodity Exchange: Does Organisational Form Matter?

    Gian Nicola Francesconi;Nico Heerink

  • Energy consumption in rural China: A household model for three villages in Jiangxi Province

    Le Chen;Nico Heerink;Marrit van den Berg

  • Land rental market, off-farm employment and agricultural production in Southeast China: A plot-level case study

    Shuyi Feng;Nico Heerink;Nico Heerink;Ruerd Ruben;Futian Qu

  • Farmland tenure in China: Comparing legal, actual and perceived security

    Xianlei Ma;Xianlei Ma;Nico Heerink;Nico Heerink;Nico Heerink;Shuyi Feng;Xiaoping Shi

  • Do fragmented landholdings have higher production costs? Evidence from rice farmers in Northeastern Jiangxi province, P.R. China

    Shuhao Tan;Nico Heerink;Gideon Kruseman;Futian Qu

  • Choices between different off-farm employment sub-categories: An empirical analysis for Jiangxi Province, China

    Xiaoping Shi;Nico Heerink;Futian Qu

  • Cooperative membership and farmers’ choice of marketing channels – Evidence from apple farmers in Shaanxi and Shandong Provinces, China

    Jinghui Hao;Jos Bijman;Cornelis Gardebroek;Nico Heerink

  • Energy consumption practices of rural households in north China: Basic characteristics and potential for low carbon development

    Wenling Liu;Wenling Liu;Gert Spaargaren;Nico Heerink;Arthur P.J. Mol

  • Identifying entry points to improve fertilizer use efficiency in Taihu Basin, China

    Li Ma;Shuyi Feng;Pytrik Reidsma;Futian Qu

  • Are farm households' land renting and migration decisions inter-related in rural China?

    S. Feng;S. Feng;N. Heerink

  • Land tenure security and land investments in Northwest China

    Xianlei Ma;Nico Heerink;Ekko van Ierland;Marrit van den Berg

  • Land administration reform in China - Its impact on land allocation and economic development

    Futian Qu;Nico Heerink;Wanmao Wang

  • China's One‐Child Policy and ‘the Mystery of Missing Women’: Ethnic Minorities and Male‐Biased Sex Ratios*

    Erwin H. Bulte;Nico Heerink;Xiaobo Zhang

  • Rural to urban land conversion in China — How large is the over-conversion and what are its welfare implications?

    Rong Tan;Rong Tan;Futian Qu;Nico Heerink;Nico Heerink;Evy Mettepenningen

  • Sustainable natural resource use in rural China: Recent trends and policies

    Futian Qu;Arie Kuyvenhoven;Xiaoping Shi;Nico Heerink;Nico Heerink

  • Water users associations and irrigation water productivity in northern China

    Lei Zhang;Lei Zhang;Nico Heerink;Nico Heerink;Nico Heerink;Liesbeth Dries;Xiaoping Shi

  • Foreign direct investment, fiscal decentralization and land conflicts in China

    Yan Wu;Yan Wu;Nico Heerink;Nico Heerink;Nico Heerink

  • How do land rental markets affect household income? Evidence from rural Jiangsu, P.R. China

    Lan Zhang;Shuyi Feng;Nico Heerink;Futian Qu

Frequent Co-Authors

Wopke van der Werf
Wopke van der Werf Wageningen University & Research
Justus Wesseler
Justus Wesseler Wageningen University & Research
Erwin H. Bulte
Erwin H. Bulte Wageningen University & Research
Gert Spaargaren
Gert Spaargaren Wageningen University & Research
Arthur P.J. Mol
Arthur P.J. Mol Wageningen University & Research
Henk Folmer
Henk Folmer University of Groningen
Martin K. van Ittersum
Martin K. van Ittersum Wageningen University & Research
Xiaolin Li
Xiaolin Li China Agricultural University
Fusuo Zhang
Fusuo Zhang China Agricultural University
Xiaobo Zhang
Xiaobo Zhang Peking University

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