Catherine is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Policy and Governance Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
She is the award-winning author of four previous books: Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of environmental politics in New Zealand (Canterbury University Press, 2018), Wildbore: A photographic legacy (Totara Press, 2018), New Zealand’s Rivers: An environmental history (Canterbury University Press, 2016) and Ravaged Beauty: An environmental history of the Manawatu (Dunmore Press, 2014).