Linda Johnson-Bell

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Water flows through all I write, all I study, and all I believe (with wine never far behind!). My thirty years of wine tasting and writing began in Paris, as Editor and Publishing Director of Vintage Magazine, and 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 (Oxford) in 2016. 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, which I apply to my climate change research. With my current PhD research in Northern Studies (UHI), I focus on the Indigenous peoples of the Circumpolar North, Scotland’s Orkney and Shetland Islands, and their role in the geopolitics of the Arctic. From vineyards to northern seas, water, and the Indigenous reverence for it, is the element that connects my research, my writing, and my cosmology.

“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”

— Loren Eiseley, anthropologist & natural science writer (from The Immense Journey, 1957)

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ARTICLES: Water Works

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