Charlotte Maybom

Charlotte Maybom is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral researcher at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), working at the intersection of global environmental governance, climate adaptation, and intersectionality. She works within CLIMES - the Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes, an interdisciplinary platform bridging the natural and social sciences to understand and mitigate the impacts of climate extremes. 

At CLIMES, Charlotte examines how slow-onset and extreme climate events affect communities in Sweden and Denmark, using qualitative and mixed methods to analyse climate risks, vulnerabilities, and adaptation pathways. Her research focuses on lived experiences of loss and damage and the socio-political dimensions of climate impacts, with particular attention to how power relations, institutions, and global sustainability frameworks shape exposure, protection, and knowledge in climate responses. Her work sits at the interface between research, policy, and practice, producing policy-relevant knowledge for public authorities, NGOs, and international organisations working with climate risk, resilience, and adaptation. 

She holds a PhD in political ecology from the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the CGIAR centre International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Her doctoral research examined gender mainstreaming in environmental interventions in climate-affected regions of Kenya, tracing policies across scales from international organisations and NGOs to communities and households. Grounded in feminist political ecology and international relations, this work analysed how environmental and gender policies are interpreted, negotiated, and sometimes resisted in practice. 

Research focus

Social and socio-political dimensions of climate adaptation, with particular attention to how gender, power, and institutional dynamics within global sustainability frameworks shape vulnerability, resilience, and response in the context of climate extremes