
Max T. Mauerman
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Pronouns: He / him / his
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Senior Staff Associate, National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
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Affiliated with: International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)
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475 Riverside Drive
Suite 401
New York, NY 10115-0095
United States
BIOGRAPHY:
Max Mauerman is a Senior Staff Associate at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), as well as a PhD candidate at the University of Reading Department of Agriculture, Policy and Development. His roles at IRI include the development of decision-support tools for climate risk management as well as research on economic decision-making under climate uncertainty. Prior to joining IRI, Max worked for Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), where he co-managed a large-scale evaluation of a rangeland conservation program in Namibia. He has also worked as a consultant for the World Food Programme and Tetra Tech on research topics related to climate resilience and conservation agriculture.
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Full list of publications available on Google Scholar.
Select publications:
Mauerman, M., et al. (2022). An Information-Theoretic Approach to Reconciling Historical Climate Observations and Impacts on Agriculture. Weather, Climate and Society, doi:10.1175/WCAS-D-22-0019.1
Mauerman, M., et. al. (2022) The Long-Term Impact of Multi-Season Droughts on Livestock Holdings and Pastoralist Decision-Making in Marsabit, Kenya. Journal of Arid Environments. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104928
Mauerman, M., Tjiseua, V., & Groves, D. W. (2023). Seeing Cattle like a State: Sedentist Assumptions of the Namibian Livestock Identification and Traceability System. Nomadic Peoples, 27(2), 171–197. https://doi.org/10.3197/np.2023.270202
Contributed to fieldwork, study design and analysis:
Coppock, L., et. al. (2022). Community-based rangeland management in Namibia improves resource governance but not environmental and economic outcomes. Nature Communications Earth & Environment, 3 (1). doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00361-5