LOCATION: CanadaIan Mauro is a Canada Research Chair in "human dimensions of environmental change" at Mount Allison University, in New Brunswick.
He is both a researcher and filmmaker, with a PhD in environmental science, and his work focuses on hunter, farmer and fisher knowledge regarding environmental change, specifically issues related to food security and global warming.
As part of his doctorate, he co-directed "Seeds of Change" (www.seedsofchangefilm.org), a highly controversial film that focused on farmer experience regarding agbiotechnology in Canada. The film has been viewed over 1.5 million times online and is used by universities around the world.
For his postdoctorate, Mauro teamed up with Zacharias Kunuk and Igloolik Isuma Productions to develop "Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change", the world's first Inuktitut language film on the topic. The film is available for free on our website (www.isuma.tv/ikcc).
Mauro continues his collaboration with IsumaTV and is leading a large-scale video project focused on climate change adaptation in Atlantic Canada. He can be contacted through email at imauro@mta.ca
Uploads by Ian Mauro
Zacharias and Ian, co-directors of Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, share a message with the Canadian Government for the upcoming November 24th screening of the film on Parliament Hill for MPs and...
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change was screened in the northern community of Churchill, Manitoba, on November 5th, 2010. This was our second public screening of the film.This interactive event - with...
If you've been following our work, you'll know that elders across Nunavut believe that "the earth has tilted" and this is the cause of climate change. To better understand this, we've been in...
An
important concept we've heard in some of our interviews with elders is about
"the forbidden window". In the past, children were told not to touch
or eat ice off the window of the qammaq. These...
From Igloolik to Copenhagen
Documentary project brings the Inuit perspective on climate change to the world stage
Marlo Campbell
"Inuit are on the front lines of climate change," says Ian Mauro over...
