Maheshwaran Govender

Maheshwaran Govender

Maheshwaran Govender

Project Staff

Programme Area: Programme Area 5 - Societal Impact
Working Group: WG Transformation Through Transdisciplinarity (TripleT)

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Office: Fahrenheitstr. 6, Annexe
28359 Bremen
Room: 2212 (2nd floor)

Research interests

I am a transdisciplinary scientist interested in human-nature interactions and in how relationships, institutions, power, and diverse perspectives shape environmental governance, conservation, and social outcomes. My research focuses on coastal social-ecological systems, their transformations, and collective responses to environmental change. I also support interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects in designing and implementing stakeholder engagement and knowledge co-production processes.

My specific research interests include:

• Social-ecological systems
• Social networks and discourses
• Political ecology, justice, and equity
• Resilience, adaptive capacity, and transformation
• Participatory and mixed-methods approaches

      Selected Publications                                                                                                   Featured Research

VisualAbstract Turtle 2024
An innovative mixed-methods approach to understanding stakeholder conflicts in complex social-ecological systems (Govender et al. 2025)

 

Govender, M., Das, J., Paul, S., Shuvo, S., Selim, S. A., Glaser, M. (2025). Toward blue justice in blue growth: Insights from local discourses on coastal megaprojects in Bangladesh. Ocean & Coastal Management.

 

Additional Affiliations

Visiting Researcher, Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium

Member, Leibniz Research Network "Earth & Societies"

Open to collaborations

If you are interested in collaborating on any of the above topics, please feel free to write to me :)