Research Focus
Dr. Kassam conducts research that has immediate impact on community agency, adaptation, and resilience. His research interests include:
- Indigenous and place-based ecological knowledge
- Human ecology
- Ethnobiology
- Biocultural diversity
- Stewardship
- Ecological calendars
- Pluralism
- Ways of knowing
- Food sovereignty and security
- Medicinal plants (health sovereignty)
- Participatory action research
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Natural resource policy and management
- Development studies
- Indigenous land and marine use mapping
- Gender analysis
- Arctic social science
- Social history of Muslim societies
- Social change in indigenous communities
- Community economic development
