Water runs through everything I do. My thirty years of wine tasting and writing eventually led me to the bigger story of Climate Change, work that became Wine and Climate Change (2014), the first book on the subject, and later the founding of The Wine and Climate Change Institute in 2016. From there, my research widened to embrace sustainable farming, soil health, and how we manage freshwater in agriculture. I was proud to contribute to the United Nations’ Encyclopedia of the Sustainable Development Goals with a chapter paper on the non-viability of freshwater irrigation in viticulture. At the same time, my close Saami ancestry deepened my commitment to Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Most recently, completing a master’s in Coastal and Maritime Societies and Cultures (UHI) sparked my current PhD in Northern Studies, where I focus on the Indigenous peoples of the Circumpolar North, Scotland’s Orkney and Shetland Islands, and the geopolitics of the Arctic. This blog features extracts from my UN research, talks, articles, MLitt research, and books. It covers topics such as wine, climate change, sustainability, organic agriculture, freshwater management, water science, the Vikings and the Saami, Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS), and Welsh beach life… all my favourite stuff …
WATER WORKS
