Arshad K. KhalafzaiRoyal Roads University | RRU · MA Program in Disaster and Emergency Management
Arshad K. Khalafzai
P.h.D; MA Disaster Management; MS Development Studies; MBA
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Introduction
Dr. Khalafzai currently works for the Government of the Northwest Territories. His Ph.D. research adopted the post-positivist approach and mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) research using multiple approaches, methods of data collection and sources of information for triangulation and several software (e.g, NVivo, SPSS, and ArcMap, GIS).
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Publications (7)
This chapter explores the incorporation of traditional Indigenous knowledge into climate change-related natural hazard risk communication. Ample research has been conducted on climate change-related risk communication, and a significant body of literature exists on the role of traditional Indigenous knowledge in reducing climate change impacts. How...
Floods and evacuations due to flooding can increase vulnerability and affect community resilience. This article examines how the Kashechewan First Nation, located in the flood-prone Subarctic southwestern James Bay region of Canada, is affected by the frequent risk of spring flooding. Kashechewan, an isolated and remote Indigenous community, is loc...
ABSTRACT. Perceived (socio-cognitive) capacity is as important as objective (material resources) capacity in assessing the overall adaptive capacity of people at the community level. Higher perceived and objective capacities generate greater total adaptive capacity. This article assesses the perceived adaptive capacity of the Kashechewan First Nati...
Kashechewan First Nation, located in the southwestern James Bay (Subarctic) region of northern Ontario, is frequently affected by the flooding risk and recurring evacuations. Residents have been evacuated 14 times since 2004 (consecutively from 2004-2008 and 2012-2019) to at least 22 different host communities across Ontario. This dissertation prov...
Traditional Knowledge has the potential to increase our understanding of many kinds of ecological phenomenon including floods. This article offers insights into the nature of spring flooding and its impacts in the southwestern James Bay region of northern Ontario, Canada from the perspectives of residents of Kashechewan First Nation. This article h...
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Can anyone respond to my following question?
"Is it OK to use Spearman's rho for correlation (i.e. relationship and the strength of relationship between variables) and Kendall's W for hypothesis testing as well as to know the effect size?" (Kendall's W also provides Chi-square and degree of freedom in addition to pair comparison and statistical significance i.e. for Bonferroni Correction. Moreover, analysis of my data using Kendall's W provides more logical and better results that Jonckheere-Terpstra or Kruskal Wallis test. Please suggest? By the way, I am not a statistician but a social science student.
In the subject research:
Can I use a combination of the following three approaches: 1) Phenomenology, 2) Ethnography, and 3) Case Study?
Would this combination help in easing the research or complicating it?
The Kashechewan community in Northern Ontario (located at the southwestern James Bay) has been frequently experiencing (5-6 flooding events in the past 8-10 years) the flooding events, which is linked to climate change. I would like to examine climate change impacts on the community. In addition, I would like to explore potential (new) opportunities that may arise from climate change for adaptation. This mean not just focusing on the negative impacts of climate change. But also focusing on new opportunities for adaptation. I would also like to explore what contribution Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Culture can make to reduce the climate change effects and help in its adaptation.
