People & Partners

Dr Maike Hamann

Dr Maike Hamann is a sustainability scientist who uses a social-ecological systems lens to understand how nature contributes to and enhances human wellbeing. Maike is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Geography and Environmental Science (CGES) at the University of Exeter in the UK. Before joining CGES, Maike was a senior researcher at the CST, where one of her key roles was to promote and coordinate interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge synthesis across the fields of resilience and development in the southern African region. Before her time at the CST, Maike completed a PhD in Sustainability Science at the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden and worked as a postdoctoral researcher with the Natural Capital Project at the University of Minnesota in the United States.

• Impact of socio-economic inequalities on people-nature relationships
• The role of informality in urban resilience
• The application of creative futuring methods to explore transformations towards more just and sustainable futures