Climate change is dramatically revolutionizing the balance of ecosystems.
This is particularly evident in alpine forests, where its effects are twice as evident as in other environments.
For this reason, scientist Giorgio Vacchiano, an expert in forest management, decided to take a break from university teaching to return to the woods of his childhood, in the Aosta Valley, where his passion for plants was born.
That territory, so familiar to him, with its imposing and fascinating landscapes, lends itself to becoming a large open-air laboratory, where climate change and strategies to counteract its effects can be studied.
Thus begins a journey that takes Giorgio through the Alpine forest and meets other researchers and scientists, searching for the keys to understanding the profound changes taking place in that territory.
Giorgio's research has an urgent and fundamental goal: to develop strategies for intervening in the forest to help it counteract the effects of climate change, thus preserving all the services it provides to humans and that guarantee our survival on this planet.
Saving trees, in fact, means saving humanity.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES
What struck me most about Giorgio's work is his ability to interpret nature through scientific analysis, developing intervention strategies that allow us to re-establish the alliance with the environment that the reckless exploitation of resources has broken.
Recognize the effects of climate change on the ground, in ecosystems, and in the trees themselves.
Transform phenomena into data. Find relationships between them. way to predict the behavior of ecosystems in the coming decades.
Use these Forecastsforprograminterventionsindegree diimprovelaresilienceofforest.
Waysficare about the fate of an ecosystem to make it capable of maintaining services over time which offers to man, brutally compromised by the effects of climate change, such as carbon absorption and storage, drought prevention, protection from instabilityhydrogeological.
They are temi di fundamental importance since relationship between we e the environment. Between us and the planet.
Giorgio offers us a privileged key to enterin the dynamicsdeepest aspects of this relationship.
By immersing himself in an ecosystem such as the Alpine or Apennine one, Giorgio investigates the territory, collects clues, puts together the pieces of a puzzle that allows him to evaluate its state of health.
Study how man has managed forests in the past, so as to make them an ally for the its very survival. Project this relationship into the future, putting together the data and imagining new scenarios.
It is a journey in stages, with successive junctions: faced with a problem studying, discovering, plansfidear, take action.
From my directorial point of view it is a scientific research processfiwhich already has a strong narrative structure in itself: the the camera follows Giorgio, who acts as the fulcrum of the narrative.
Faced with a serious threat, the scientist ventures into the natural world of the woods to look for answers, here meets allies who help him interpret nature's signals and work out a solution.
Giorgio's field research offers us a strong and specific point of viewfico to tell in ef wayfitackles a complex topic such as climate change and its effects.
