Claudio Aporta
Biographic Data
| ID | 176999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudio Aporta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudio |
| FAMILY NAME | Aporta |
| SIGNATURE | APORTA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7883-7885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Using local perspectives to inform the evaluation of data representation tools for place-based knowledge in coastal spatial planning in Nova Scotia, Canada
Spatial planning is a process that is essential for the transdisciplinary management of changing coastal environments. The process aims to influence the spatial distribution of activities in a way that balances environmental, economic and social needs. As community input becomes increasingly recognized for its role in decision-making, there is a growing need to explore how conventional and innovative decision support tools, specifically data repr…
An Iterative and Participatory Method for Mapping Inuit Knowledge of the Ice and Ocean in Nunatsiavut
In 2019 and 2021, we held participatory mapping workshops in Nain, Hopedale, Postville, Makkovik, and Rigolet (Nunatsiavut, Canada) to document Labrador Inuit’s knowledge of the sea ice and ocean environment. We provide an overview of the iterative and adaptable methodological approach we used to support collaborative and transcultural marine research, emphasizing participants’ experiences during the process. The participatory mapping method crea…
Arctic marine shipping development and governance in Canada: A historical overview
Perils of an open Arctic
Co-producing maps as boundary objects: Bridging Labrador Inuit knowledge and oceanographic research
Climate change is affecting the marine environment in Nunatsiavut, leading to changing sea ice thickness and seasonal timing, and increasing water temperatures. This impacts the lives of Labrador Inuit, whose culture, economy, and history are deeply tied to marine spaces. Recently, research partnerships involving Inuit communities in Nunatsiavut have increased, creating space for Labrador Inuit in large scale marine research agendas. While includ…
Governance of Arctic Shipping: Rethinking Risk, Human Impacts and Regulation
This Open Access book is a result of contributions to a major workshop held as part of Module N: Safe Navigation and Environment Protection project, supported by a grant from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s Safe and Sustainable Development of the Ocean seven-year grant funded by the CFREF
Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim, by Michael Fortescue
An elder on sea ice: An interview with Aipilik Inuksuk of Igloolik, Nunavut
This article provides an introduction to an interview in which an experienced hunter from Igloolik, Aipilik Inuksuk, shares his knowledge of sea ice. It analyses the nature and differences between scientific and Inuit approaches to sea ice, and it describes the difficulties of documenting and recording Inuit knowledge in context. The article describes the Igloolik Oral History Project as an innovative example of documentation of indigenous knowle…
The Igliniit project: Inuit hunters document life on the trail to map and monitor arctic change
The Igliniit Project brought together Inuit hunters and geomatics engineering students during the International Polar Year (IPY) to collaborate on the development and testing of a new integrated GPS/PDA/mobile weather station technology for observing and monitoring the environment. Part of the larger Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy Project (ISIUOP), the Igliniit Project culminated in a tangible product that is the direct result of combined scient…
Shifting perspectives on shifting ice: Documenting and representing Inuit use of the sea ice
Although much has changed for Inuit since their social, economic, and political integration into Canada, sea ice still forms an essential part of what they call their homeland. The ways in which sea ice is understood by Inuit, however, are still little known to non‐Inuit. Alongside the currently renewed political and economic interest in the Arctic regions, and in part as a result of the mounting preoccupation with the vulnerability of Arctic eco…
Geographies of Inuit sea ice use: Introduction
Siku: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use
Landscape Ethnoecology: Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space
Watching Ice and Weather Our Way: Sikumengllu Eslamengllu Esghapalleghput, buy Conrad Oozeva, Chester Noongwook, George Noongwook, Christina Alowa, and Igor Krupnik
The Trail as Home: Inuit and Their Pan-Arctic Network of Routes
From map to horizon; from trail to journey: Documenting Inuit geographic knowledge
This paper describes how new cartographic and information technologies were used to record and represent Inuit geographic and environmental knowledge in Igloolik, Nunavut. The method proved a powerful tool to document an approach to geography that is mainly oral. It was also helpful in documenting how people relate to a highly dynamic environment as the Arctic. The method includes the merging of different geographic databases that acquire full me…
Routes, trails and tracks: Trail breaking among the Inuit of Igloolik
Despite significant social, economic, and technological changes, travelling remains a significant part of people's lives in the community of Igloolik, in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. When the snow covers the land and the sea ice, travellers start breaking trails, some of which recreate routes that have been used by generations of Inuit. These routes belong to the individual and social memory of the community, and this knowledge affords peopl…
Satellite Culture: Global Positioning Systems, Inuit Wayfinding, and the Need for a New Account of Technology
Inuit hunters of the Igloolik region orient themselves on the land by understanding wind behaviour, snowdrift patterns, animal behaviour, tidal cycles, currents, and astronomical phenomena. Inuit wayfinding methods are burdensome to learn, requiring years of quiet tutoring and experience, but are perfectly reliable. Concern arose in the mid1990s that younger, less experienced hunters were beginning to rely too heavily on mechanized conveyances an…
New Ways of Mapping: Using GPS Mapping Software to Plot Place Names and Trails in Igloolik (Nunavut)
The combined use of a GPS receiver and mapping software proved to be a straightforward, flexible, and inexpensive way of mapping and displaying (in digital or paper format) 400 place names and 37 trails used by Inuit of Igloolik, in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. The geographic coordinates of some of the places named had been collected in a previous toponymy project. Experienced hunters suggested the names of additional places, and these coordinate…
Life on the ice: Understanding the codes of a changing environment
This article is concerned with the knowledge of sea ice as developed and transmitted by the Inuit of Igloolik (Nunavut, Canada). The information on which this article is based was obtained from travelling, observation, and interviewing carried out from October 2000 to May 2001 in Igloolik, as well as several existing interviews from the Igloolik Oral History Project database. Inuit knowledge of sea ice reveals a deep understanding of the complex …
Satellite Culture: Global Positioning Systems, Inuit Wayfinding, and the Need for a New Account of Technology
Inuit hunters of the Igloolik region orient themselves on the land by understanding wind behaviour, snowdrift patterns, animal behaviour, tidal cycles, currents, and astronomical phenomena. Inuit wayfinding methods are burdensome to learn, requiring years of quiet tutoring and experience, but are perfectly reliable. Concern arose in the mid1990s that younger, less experienced hunters were beginning to rely too heavily on mechanized conveyances an…
Routes, trails and tracks: Trail breaking among the Inuit of Igloolik
Despite significant social, economic, and technological changes, travelling remains a significant part of people's lives in the community of Igloolik, in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. When the snow covers the land and the sea ice, travellers start breaking trails, some of which recreate routes that have been used by generations of Inuit. These routes belong to the individual and social memory of the community, and this knowledge affords peopl…
The Trail as Home: Inuit and Their Pan-Arctic Network of Routes
Life on the ice: Understanding the codes of a changing environment
This article is concerned with the knowledge of sea ice as developed and transmitted by the Inuit of Igloolik (Nunavut, Canada). The information on which this article is based was obtained from travelling, observation, and interviewing carried out from October 2000 to May 2001 in Igloolik, as well as several existing interviews from the Igloolik Oral History Project database. Inuit knowledge of sea ice reveals a deep understanding of the complex …
The Igliniit project: Inuit hunters document life on the trail to map and monitor arctic change
The Igliniit Project brought together Inuit hunters and geomatics engineering students during the International Polar Year (IPY) to collaborate on the development and testing of a new integrated GPS/PDA/mobile weather station technology for observing and monitoring the environment. Part of the larger Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy Project (ISIUOP), the Igliniit Project culminated in a tangible product that is the direct result of combined scient…
Shifting perspectives on shifting ice: Documenting and representing Inuit use of the sea ice
Although much has changed for Inuit since their social, economic, and political integration into Canada, sea ice still forms an essential part of what they call their homeland. The ways in which sea ice is understood by Inuit, however, are still little known to non‐Inuit. Alongside the currently renewed political and economic interest in the Arctic regions, and in part as a result of the mounting preoccupation with the vulnerability of Arctic eco…
From map to horizon; from trail to journey: Documenting Inuit geographic knowledge
This paper describes how new cartographic and information technologies were used to record and represent Inuit geographic and environmental knowledge in Igloolik, Nunavut. The method proved a powerful tool to document an approach to geography that is mainly oral. It was also helpful in documenting how people relate to a highly dynamic environment as the Arctic. The method includes the merging of different geographic databases that acquire full me…
Geographies of Inuit sea ice use: Introduction
An elder on sea ice: An interview with Aipilik Inuksuk of Igloolik, Nunavut
This article provides an introduction to an interview in which an experienced hunter from Igloolik, Aipilik Inuksuk, shares his knowledge of sea ice. It analyses the nature and differences between scientific and Inuit approaches to sea ice, and it describes the difficulties of documenting and recording Inuit knowledge in context. The article describes the Igloolik Oral History Project as an innovative example of documentation of indigenous knowle…
Life on the ice: Understanding the codes of a changing environment
This article is concerned with the knowledge of sea ice as developed and transmitted by the Inuit of Igloolik (Nunavut, Canada). The information on which this article is based was obtained from travelling, observation, and interviewing carried out from October 2000 to May 2001 in Igloolik, as well as several existing interviews from the Igloolik Oral History Project database. Inuit knowledge of sea ice reveals a deep understanding of the complex …
New Ways of Mapping: Using GPS Mapping Software to Plot Place Names and Trails in Igloolik (Nunavut)
The combined use of a GPS receiver and mapping software proved to be a straightforward, flexible, and inexpensive way of mapping and displaying (in digital or paper format) 400 place names and 37 trails used by Inuit of Igloolik, in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. The geographic coordinates of some of the places named had been collected in a previous toponymy project. Experienced hunters suggested the names of additional places, and these coordinate…
Satellite Culture: Global Positioning Systems, Inuit Wayfinding, and the Need for a New Account of Technology
Inuit hunters of the Igloolik region orient themselves on the land by understanding wind behaviour, snowdrift patterns, animal behaviour, tidal cycles, currents, and astronomical phenomena. Inuit wayfinding methods are burdensome to learn, requiring years of quiet tutoring and experience, but are perfectly reliable. Concern arose in the mid1990s that younger, less experienced hunters were beginning to rely too heavily on mechanized conveyances an…
From map to horizon; from trail to journey: Documenting Inuit geographic knowledge
This paper describes how new cartographic and information technologies were used to record and represent Inuit geographic and environmental knowledge in Igloolik, Nunavut. The method proved a powerful tool to document an approach to geography that is mainly oral. It was also helpful in documenting how people relate to a highly dynamic environment as the Arctic. The method includes the merging of different geographic databases that acquire full me…
Routes, trails and tracks: Trail breaking among the Inuit of Igloolik
Despite significant social, economic, and technological changes, travelling remains a significant part of people's lives in the community of Igloolik, in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. When the snow covers the land and the sea ice, travellers start breaking trails, some of which recreate routes that have been used by generations of Inuit. These routes belong to the individual and social memory of the community, and this knowledge affords peopl…
The Trail as Home: Inuit and Their Pan-Arctic Network of Routes
Siku: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use
Landscape Ethnoecology: Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space
Watching Ice and Weather Our Way: Sikumengllu Eslamengllu Esghapalleghput, buy Conrad Oozeva, Chester Noongwook, George Noongwook, Christina Alowa, and Igor Krupnik
An elder on sea ice: An interview with Aipilik Inuksuk of Igloolik, Nunavut
This article provides an introduction to an interview in which an experienced hunter from Igloolik, Aipilik Inuksuk, shares his knowledge of sea ice. It analyses the nature and differences between scientific and Inuit approaches to sea ice, and it describes the difficulties of documenting and recording Inuit knowledge in context. The article describes the Igloolik Oral History Project as an innovative example of documentation of indigenous knowle…
The Igliniit project: Inuit hunters document life on the trail to map and monitor arctic change
The Igliniit Project brought together Inuit hunters and geomatics engineering students during the International Polar Year (IPY) to collaborate on the development and testing of a new integrated GPS/PDA/mobile weather station technology for observing and monitoring the environment. Part of the larger Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy Project (ISIUOP), the Igliniit Project culminated in a tangible product that is the direct result of combined scient…
Shifting perspectives on shifting ice: Documenting and representing Inuit use of the sea ice
Although much has changed for Inuit since their social, economic, and political integration into Canada, sea ice still forms an essential part of what they call their homeland. The ways in which sea ice is understood by Inuit, however, are still little known to non‐Inuit. Alongside the currently renewed political and economic interest in the Arctic regions, and in part as a result of the mounting preoccupation with the vulnerability of Arctic eco…
Geographies of Inuit sea ice use: Introduction
Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim, by Michael Fortescue
Governance of Arctic Shipping: Rethinking Risk, Human Impacts and Regulation
This Open Access book is a result of contributions to a major workshop held as part of Module N: Safe Navigation and Environment Protection project, supported by a grant from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s Safe and Sustainable Development of the Ocean seven-year grant funded by the CFREF
Perils of an open Arctic
Co-producing maps as boundary objects: Bridging Labrador Inuit knowledge and oceanographic research
Climate change is affecting the marine environment in Nunatsiavut, leading to changing sea ice thickness and seasonal timing, and increasing water temperatures. This impacts the lives of Labrador Inuit, whose culture, economy, and history are deeply tied to marine spaces. Recently, research partnerships involving Inuit communities in Nunatsiavut have increased, creating space for Labrador Inuit in large scale marine research agendas. While includ…
Arctic marine shipping development and governance in Canada: A historical overview
An Iterative and Participatory Method for Mapping Inuit Knowledge of the Ice and Ocean in Nunatsiavut
In 2019 and 2021, we held participatory mapping workshops in Nain, Hopedale, Postville, Makkovik, and Rigolet (Nunatsiavut, Canada) to document Labrador Inuit’s knowledge of the sea ice and ocean environment. We provide an overview of the iterative and adaptable methodological approach we used to support collaborative and transcultural marine research, emphasizing participants’ experiences during the process. The participatory mapping method crea…
Using local perspectives to inform the evaluation of data representation tools for place-based knowledge in coastal spatial planning in Nova Scotia, Canada
Spatial planning is a process that is essential for the transdisciplinary management of changing coastal environments. The process aims to influence the spatial distribution of activities in a way that balances environmental, economic and social needs. As community input becomes increasingly recognized for its role in decision-making, there is a growing need to explore how conventional and innovative decision support tools, specifically data repr…
Geography (18 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (15 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (11 works) · Oceanography (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Arctic (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geology (5 works)