Dr Catherine Knight is an award-winning writer and environmental historian, and a policy practitioner. She is an Honorary Research Associate at the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, and the author of five previous books, including Nature and Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand (Totara Press, 2020), Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of environmental politics in New Zealand (Canterbury University Press, 2018), New Zealand's Rivers: An environmental history (Canterbury University Press, 2016) and Ravaged Beauty: An environmental history of the Manawatu (Dunmore/Totara Press, 2014).