Greig Tor GutheyAssistant Professor |
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Teaching: World Regional Geography, Geography of California, Globalization and Trade & Geography of Food
Research Interests: economic geography, environment and planning, sustainable economies, agriculture, food, wine, and complexity.
I am interested in the problem of sustainability from a regional, industry and community perspective. On one level, I research how industries are structured. For example, my wine research explores the extent to which we can talk of a cohesive industrial region when we talk about the wine industry in Napa and Sonoma counties, while my dairy research has looked into how the preservation of industry through environmental intiatives has generated innovations in products and farming practices.
On a second level, my research looks at how learning and skill development occurs within regions. I ask questions like what kind of learning processes enable vineyard managers and winemakers to become and remain innovative and successful in their chosen fields and how might the place-based practices or conventions of industry shape the types of learning that are possible? My article about agro-industrial conventions in the Geographical Journal touches on this theme.
On a third level, my work looks at community engagement specifically around environmental issues. Here I am interested in how entrepreneurs, industries, companies, and communities respond to and engage with environmental goals and values. How do community concerns, ideals and activism become incorporated into planning and industry practices? Is the region part of this process? If so, how might community engagement figure into innovation and regional learning within industries? And how might multiple stakeholders engage in a process of increasing sustainable development within specific places.
Topical interests within the three above areas include the wine, dairy, poultry and the broader food industries, particularly those actors interested in local and other forms of alternative food production.
Currently I am developing a community garden on the CSUSM campus while also working on an article about sustainability and place, and another about social entrepreneurship. I continue work comparing sustainability in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand and the Northern Califorina wine industry.
Selected publications:
Greig Tor Guthey, 2012. Northern California Wine through an Economic Geographer's Lens in Percy Dougherty (ed) The Geography of Wine: Regions, Terroir and Techniques. London: Springer. Sally Fairfax, Louise Dyble, Greig Tor Guthey, Lauren Gwin, Monica Moore and Jen Sokolove, (forthcoming). Innovation or Indulgence?: Food, Quality and the Quest for Justice. Boston: The MIT Press. Greig Tor Guthey and Gail Whiteman, 2009. Social and Ecological Transitions: Winemaking in Northern California. Emergence:Complexity and Organizations. Greig Tor Guthey, 2008. Agro-industrial Conventions: Some Evidence from Northern California's Wine Industry. The Georgaphical Journal 174 (2): 138-148. Adina Merenlender, Lynn Huntsinger, Greig Guthey, and Sally Fairfax, 2004. Land Trusts and Conservation Easements: Who is Conserving What for Whom? Conservation Biology 18 (1): 65-76. Greig Tor Guthey, Lauren Gwin, and Sally Fairfax. 2003. Creative Preservation in California's Dairy Industry. The Geographical Review 93 (2): 171¿192. Greig Guthey, 2001. Mexican Places in Southern Spaces. In Arthur Murphy et al. 2001. Latino Workers in the Contemporary South. Athens: University of Georgia Press. |
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