M Berman
Biographic Data
| ID | 49358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Berman |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Berman |
| SIGNATURE | BERMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Anchorage |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3764-5913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Protective Effects of Community Institutions Against Suicide Death Among Indigenous Survivors of Historical Trauma in Rural Alaska
Equitable Compensation to Attract and Retain Qualified Teachers in High-Need Alaska Public Schools
Measuring the appropriate level of teacher compensation for different working conditions requires overcoming a number of empirical challenges, including defining and measuring differences in qualifications, effects of non-wage compensation, financial constraints, and lack of market clearing. We address those challenges in a study of teacher compensation in Alaska’s 462 public schools in 53 districts. Each of our three linked empirical specificati…
A rising tide that lifts all boats: Long‐term effects of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend on poverty
Although not designed as a social program to redistribute income, the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) has been reducing poverty by providing equal annual payments to nearly all state residents for over 40 years. We examine direct effects of the PFD on Alaska poverty rates since 1990, using US Census and American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample records to adjust for under‐reporting of children's PFD income in official statistics.…
Increasing multi-hazard climate risk and financial and health impacts on northern homeowners
Currently, more than half of the world’s human population lives in urban areas, which are increasingly affected by climate hazards. Little is known about how multi-hazard environments affect people, especially those living in urban areas in northern latitudes. This study surveyed homeowners in Anchorage and Fairbanks, USA, Alaska’s largest urban centers, to measure individual risk perceptions, mitigation response, and damages related to wildfire,…
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait
Numerous narrow marine passages around the world serve as essential gateways for the transportation of goods, the movement of people, and the migration of fish and wildlife. These global gateways facilitate human–nature interactions across distant regions. The socioeconomic and environmental interactions among distant coupled human and natural systems affect the sustainability of global gateways in complex ways. However, the assessment and analys…
Informal institutions and adaptation: Patterns and pathways of influence in a remote Arctic community
Institutions are influential in mediating the impact of adaptation initiatives at the local level, yet there are disconnects between the goals of multi-scale planning initiatives and community priorities. Research to address this challenge primarily focuses on reform to formal institutions in environmental governance. Meanwhile, knowledge of the specific role informal institutions play in governance processes remains limited. This study increases…
Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change
Berman, M. D., J. I. Schmidt, and G. Kofinas 2021. Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change. Ecology and Society 26(3):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12304-260322
Economic Effects of Climate Change in Alaska
We summarize the potential nature and scope of economic effects of climate change in Alaska that have already occurred and are likely to become manifest over the next 30–50 years. We classified potential effects discussed in the literature into categories according to climate driver, type of environmental service affected, certainty and timing of the effects, and potential magnitude of economic consequences. We then described the nature of import…
Environmental History and the Concept of Agency: Improving Understanding of Local Conditions and Adaptations to Climate Change in Seven Coastal Communities
This article provides a synthesis of the results from seven global research sites working together to study adaptation to climate change in coastal communities under the moniker ARTISTICC (www.artisticc.net). It first aims to share these research results in order to demonstrate two general themes that emerge from our analysis and can help improve our understanding of community responses to environmental change broadly speaking. These themes are t…
Resource rents, universal basic income, and poverty among Alaska’s Indigenous peoples
The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program provides universal basic income (UBI) to all residents from investment earnings of a state sovereign wealth fund created from oil rents. This paper evaluates the effect of the PFD to mitigate poverty among the state’s rural Indigenous (Alaska Native) peoples: a population with historically high poverty rates living in a region with limited economic opportunities. Errors in recording PFD income in d…
Are Mixed Economies Persistent or Transitional? Evidence Using Social Networks from Arctic Alaska
Two opposing narratives describe future prospects for mixed economic livelihoods in Alaska and the broader Arctic. On the one hand, Arctic anthropologists have written about the emergence of persistent mixed economies in Native communities. A second narrative echoes modernization assumptions and assumes that "subsistence is dying," mixed economies are transitional, and Native communities are headed inevitably toward full market dependence. We pro…
Suicide Among Young Alaska Native Men: Community Risk Factors and Alcohol Control
Objectives. I examined community risk factors that explained variation in suicide rates among young rural Alaska Native men, evaluating the effectiveness of local alcohol control as a public health policy to reduce this population’s historically high vulnerability. Methods. I compiled suicide data, alcohol control status, and community-level social, cultural, and economic characteristics for Alaska Native men aged 15 to 34 years in 178 small Alas…
Migration in Arctic Alaska: Empirical evidence of the stepping stones hypothesis
This article tests for hierarchical migration patterns using data from the Alaskan Arctic. We focus on migration of Iñupiat people, who are indigenous to the region, and explore the role of income and subsistence harvests in the migration choice. Evaluating confidential microdata from the US Census Bureau’s 2000 Decennial Census of Population and Income with a mixed multinomial and conditional logit model we find evidence of step-wise migration u…
Seasonal Climate Variation and Caribou Availability: Modeling Sequential Movement Using Satellite-Relocation Data
Nicolson, C., M. Berman, C. Thor West, G. P. Kofinas, B. Griffith, D. Russell, and D. Dugan. 2013. Seasonal climate variation and caribou availability: modeling sequential movement using satellite-relocation data. Ecology and Society 18(2): 1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05376-180201
Modeling Regional Dynamics of Human-Rangifer Systems: A Framework for Comparative Analysis
Theoretical models of interaction between wild and domestic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus; caribou in North America) can help explain observed social-ecological dynamics of arctic hunting and husbandry systems. Different modes of hunting and husbandry incorporate strategies to mitigate effects of differing patterns of environmental uncertainty. Simulations of simple models of harvested wild and domestic herds with density-dependent recruitment show…
Arctic Observing Network Social Indicators Project: Overview
The Arctic Observing Network Social Indicators Project (NSF OPP0638408) is intended to contribute to the development of the Arctic Observation Network and to the science goals of SEARCH in two ways: (1) develop and make available to the science community relevant datasets and (2) identify gaps in the existing observation system and recommend appropriate actions to fill those gaps. The SEARCH Implementation Plan identified the following arenas of …
Next steps toward an Arctic human dimensions observing system
The goal of The Arctic Observing Network Social Indicators Project (AON-SIP) was to develop a system of social observations that can answer the question, ‘Is the arctic system moving to a new state?’ Much of the project effort focused on compiling data on human activities in the arctic that might interact with climate change and social indicators of arctic well-being. This paper reviews the adequacy of the data analyzed in the project for three o…
Moving or staying for the best part of life: Theory and evidence for the role of subsistence in migration and well-being of Arctic Inupiat residents
Although subsistence harvesting plays an important role in cultural identity and struggles for political autonomy among indigenous peoples of the Arctic, its role in local economies remains unclear. One view sees subsistence as the employer of last resort for people unable to find paying jobs, while another sees it as a productive activity contributing to the quality of life in rural Arctic communities. Migration provides a mechanism for determin…
The Situatedness of Judgment and Action in Arendt and Merleau-Ponty
Adaptation and Sustainability in a Small Arctic Community: Results of an Agent-based Simulation Model
Climate warming and resource development could alter key Arctic ecosystem functions that support fish and wildlife resources harvested by local indigenous communities. A different set of global forces - government policies and tourism markets - increasingly directs local cash economies that communities use to support subsistence activities. Agent-based computational models (ABMs) contribute to an integrated assessment of community sustainability …
Hunting for models: Grounded and rational choice approaches to analyzing climate effects on subsistence hunting in an Arctic community
Hunting for models: Grounded and rational choice approaches to analyzing climate effects on subsistence hunting in an Arctic community
Alcohol Control by Referendum in Northern Native Communities: The Alaska Local Option Law
When Alaska became a state in 1959, state laws took control of alcohol regulation from the federal government and Native communities. In 1981, however, the state legislature changed the alcohol laws to give residents broad powers, via a local option referendum, to regulate how alcohol comes into their communities. By mid-1999, 112 small communities had held nearly 200 alcohol control elections under the state law. Of these elections, 69% added ne…
Humanitarian Politics: The International Committee of the Red Cross
"Hegemony" and the Amateur Tradition in British Science
Journal Article “Hegemony” and the Amateur Tradition in British Science Get access Morris Berman Morris Berman Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 9, Issue 2, Winter 1975, Pages 30–50, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/9.2.30 Published: 01 December 1975
Are Mixed Economies Persistent or Transitional? Evidence Using Social Networks from Arctic Alaska
Two opposing narratives describe future prospects for mixed economic livelihoods in Alaska and the broader Arctic. On the one hand, Arctic anthropologists have written about the emergence of persistent mixed economies in Native communities. A second narrative echoes modernization assumptions and assumes that "subsistence is dying," mixed economies are transitional, and Native communities are headed inevitably toward full market dependence. We pro…
Resource rents, universal basic income, and poverty among Alaska’s Indigenous peoples
The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program provides universal basic income (UBI) to all residents from investment earnings of a state sovereign wealth fund created from oil rents. This paper evaluates the effect of the PFD to mitigate poverty among the state’s rural Indigenous (Alaska Native) peoples: a population with historically high poverty rates living in a region with limited economic opportunities. Errors in recording PFD income in d…
"Hegemony" and the Amateur Tradition in British Science
Journal Article “Hegemony” and the Amateur Tradition in British Science Get access Morris Berman Morris Berman Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 9, Issue 2, Winter 1975, Pages 30–50, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/9.2.30 Published: 01 December 1975
Humanitarian Politics: The International Committee of the Red Cross
Suicide Among Young Alaska Native Men: Community Risk Factors and Alcohol Control
Objectives. I examined community risk factors that explained variation in suicide rates among young rural Alaska Native men, evaluating the effectiveness of local alcohol control as a public health policy to reduce this population’s historically high vulnerability. Methods. I compiled suicide data, alcohol control status, and community-level social, cultural, and economic characteristics for Alaska Native men aged 15 to 34 years in 178 small Alas…
Migration in Arctic Alaska: Empirical evidence of the stepping stones hypothesis
This article tests for hierarchical migration patterns using data from the Alaskan Arctic. We focus on migration of Iñupiat people, who are indigenous to the region, and explore the role of income and subsistence harvests in the migration choice. Evaluating confidential microdata from the US Census Bureau’s 2000 Decennial Census of Population and Income with a mixed multinomial and conditional logit model we find evidence of step-wise migration u…
Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change
Berman, M. D., J. I. Schmidt, and G. Kofinas 2021. Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change. Ecology and Society 26(3):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12304-260322
"Hegemony" and the Amateur Tradition in British Science
Journal Article “Hegemony” and the Amateur Tradition in British Science Get access Morris Berman Morris Berman Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 9, Issue 2, Winter 1975, Pages 30–50, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/9.2.30 Published: 01 December 1975
Humanitarian Politics: The International Committee of the Red Cross
Alcohol Control by Referendum in Northern Native Communities: The Alaska Local Option Law
When Alaska became a state in 1959, state laws took control of alcohol regulation from the federal government and Native communities. In 1981, however, the state legislature changed the alcohol laws to give residents broad powers, via a local option referendum, to regulate how alcohol comes into their communities. By mid-1999, 112 small communities had held nearly 200 alcohol control elections under the state law. Of these elections, 69% added ne…
Adaptation and Sustainability in a Small Arctic Community: Results of an Agent-based Simulation Model
Climate warming and resource development could alter key Arctic ecosystem functions that support fish and wildlife resources harvested by local indigenous communities. A different set of global forces - government policies and tourism markets - increasingly directs local cash economies that communities use to support subsistence activities. Agent-based computational models (ABMs) contribute to an integrated assessment of community sustainability …
Hunting for models: Grounded and rational choice approaches to analyzing climate effects on subsistence hunting in an Arctic community
Hunting for models: Grounded and rational choice approaches to analyzing climate effects on subsistence hunting in an Arctic community
The Situatedness of Judgment and Action in Arendt and Merleau-Ponty
Moving or staying for the best part of life: Theory and evidence for the role of subsistence in migration and well-being of Arctic Inupiat residents
Although subsistence harvesting plays an important role in cultural identity and struggles for political autonomy among indigenous peoples of the Arctic, its role in local economies remains unclear. One view sees subsistence as the employer of last resort for people unable to find paying jobs, while another sees it as a productive activity contributing to the quality of life in rural Arctic communities. Migration provides a mechanism for determin…
Arctic Observing Network Social Indicators Project: Overview
The Arctic Observing Network Social Indicators Project (NSF OPP0638408) is intended to contribute to the development of the Arctic Observation Network and to the science goals of SEARCH in two ways: (1) develop and make available to the science community relevant datasets and (2) identify gaps in the existing observation system and recommend appropriate actions to fill those gaps. The SEARCH Implementation Plan identified the following arenas of …
Next steps toward an Arctic human dimensions observing system
The goal of The Arctic Observing Network Social Indicators Project (AON-SIP) was to develop a system of social observations that can answer the question, ‘Is the arctic system moving to a new state?’ Much of the project effort focused on compiling data on human activities in the arctic that might interact with climate change and social indicators of arctic well-being. This paper reviews the adequacy of the data analyzed in the project for three o…
Migration in Arctic Alaska: Empirical evidence of the stepping stones hypothesis
This article tests for hierarchical migration patterns using data from the Alaskan Arctic. We focus on migration of Iñupiat people, who are indigenous to the region, and explore the role of income and subsistence harvests in the migration choice. Evaluating confidential microdata from the US Census Bureau’s 2000 Decennial Census of Population and Income with a mixed multinomial and conditional logit model we find evidence of step-wise migration u…
Seasonal Climate Variation and Caribou Availability: Modeling Sequential Movement Using Satellite-Relocation Data
Nicolson, C., M. Berman, C. Thor West, G. P. Kofinas, B. Griffith, D. Russell, and D. Dugan. 2013. Seasonal climate variation and caribou availability: modeling sequential movement using satellite-relocation data. Ecology and Society 18(2): 1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05376-180201
Modeling Regional Dynamics of Human-Rangifer Systems: A Framework for Comparative Analysis
Theoretical models of interaction between wild and domestic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus; caribou in North America) can help explain observed social-ecological dynamics of arctic hunting and husbandry systems. Different modes of hunting and husbandry incorporate strategies to mitigate effects of differing patterns of environmental uncertainty. Simulations of simple models of harvested wild and domestic herds with density-dependent recruitment show…
Suicide Among Young Alaska Native Men: Community Risk Factors and Alcohol Control
Objectives. I examined community risk factors that explained variation in suicide rates among young rural Alaska Native men, evaluating the effectiveness of local alcohol control as a public health policy to reduce this population’s historically high vulnerability. Methods. I compiled suicide data, alcohol control status, and community-level social, cultural, and economic characteristics for Alaska Native men aged 15 to 34 years in 178 small Alas…
Are Mixed Economies Persistent or Transitional? Evidence Using Social Networks from Arctic Alaska
Two opposing narratives describe future prospects for mixed economic livelihoods in Alaska and the broader Arctic. On the one hand, Arctic anthropologists have written about the emergence of persistent mixed economies in Native communities. A second narrative echoes modernization assumptions and assumes that "subsistence is dying," mixed economies are transitional, and Native communities are headed inevitably toward full market dependence. We pro…
Environmental History and the Concept of Agency: Improving Understanding of Local Conditions and Adaptations to Climate Change in Seven Coastal Communities
This article provides a synthesis of the results from seven global research sites working together to study adaptation to climate change in coastal communities under the moniker ARTISTICC (www.artisticc.net). It first aims to share these research results in order to demonstrate two general themes that emerge from our analysis and can help improve our understanding of community responses to environmental change broadly speaking. These themes are t…
Resource rents, universal basic income, and poverty among Alaska’s Indigenous peoples
The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program provides universal basic income (UBI) to all residents from investment earnings of a state sovereign wealth fund created from oil rents. This paper evaluates the effect of the PFD to mitigate poverty among the state’s rural Indigenous (Alaska Native) peoples: a population with historically high poverty rates living in a region with limited economic opportunities. Errors in recording PFD income in d…
Economic Effects of Climate Change in Alaska
We summarize the potential nature and scope of economic effects of climate change in Alaska that have already occurred and are likely to become manifest over the next 30–50 years. We classified potential effects discussed in the literature into categories according to climate driver, type of environmental service affected, certainty and timing of the effects, and potential magnitude of economic consequences. We then described the nature of import…
Informal institutions and adaptation: Patterns and pathways of influence in a remote Arctic community
Institutions are influential in mediating the impact of adaptation initiatives at the local level, yet there are disconnects between the goals of multi-scale planning initiatives and community priorities. Research to address this challenge primarily focuses on reform to formal institutions in environmental governance. Meanwhile, knowledge of the specific role informal institutions play in governance processes remains limited. This study increases…
Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change
Berman, M. D., J. I. Schmidt, and G. Kofinas 2021. Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change. Ecology and Society 26(3):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12304-260322
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait
Numerous narrow marine passages around the world serve as essential gateways for the transportation of goods, the movement of people, and the migration of fish and wildlife. These global gateways facilitate human–nature interactions across distant regions. The socioeconomic and environmental interactions among distant coupled human and natural systems affect the sustainability of global gateways in complex ways. However, the assessment and analys…
Equitable Compensation to Attract and Retain Qualified Teachers in High-Need Alaska Public Schools
Measuring the appropriate level of teacher compensation for different working conditions requires overcoming a number of empirical challenges, including defining and measuring differences in qualifications, effects of non-wage compensation, financial constraints, and lack of market clearing. We address those challenges in a study of teacher compensation in Alaska’s 462 public schools in 53 districts. Each of our three linked empirical specificati…
A rising tide that lifts all boats: Long‐term effects of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend on poverty
Although not designed as a social program to redistribute income, the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) has been reducing poverty by providing equal annual payments to nearly all state residents for over 40 years. We examine direct effects of the PFD on Alaska poverty rates since 1990, using US Census and American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample records to adjust for under‐reporting of children's PFD income in official statistics.…
Increasing multi-hazard climate risk and financial and health impacts on northern homeowners
Currently, more than half of the world’s human population lives in urban areas, which are increasingly affected by climate hazards. Little is known about how multi-hazard environments affect people, especially those living in urban areas in northern latitudes. This study surveyed homeowners in Anchorage and Fairbanks, USA, Alaska’s largest urban centers, to measure individual risk perceptions, mitigation response, and damages related to wildfire,…
Protective Effects of Community Institutions Against Suicide Death Among Indigenous Survivors of Historical Trauma in Rural Alaska
Geography (15 works) · Ecology (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Environmental resource management (11 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (10 works) · Climate change (10 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Arctic (9 works) · Environmental Science (8 works)