Publications by authors named "Danika Kleiber"

In small-scale fisheries management, the significance of participation is widely recognised but we are still learning how this can be better operationalised to include different groups, such as women or Indigenous peoples. Participatory monitoring is one tool which has been used to increase participation in fisheries management. The aim of this review is to use critical interpretive synthesis to examine the literature on participatory monitoring within community-based fisheries management from a gender perspective.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted global fisheries, leading to decreased seafood demand, supply chain issues, and new safety regulations, which forced fishing communities to adapt.
  • Research involving surveys, interviews, and focus groups was conducted in five U.S. fishing regions to examine the pandemic's effects and the responses from commercial fisheries.
  • The study used a new framework (RAD) to categorize adaptation strategies and found that fishers with diverse options and flexibility were more resilient, suggesting that these adaptations could strengthen fisheries against future challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Men and women's vulnerability to disasters is different and often related, in part, to cultural norms that influence gendered behaviors and abilities. In this study we focus on gender differences in swimming abilities, which, in the case of tsunamis have resulted in far greater female mortality rates. We present results on swimming ability by gender for 940 residents of coastal rural communities in the northern and central Philippines.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Western and eastern bluebirds (Sialia mexicana and S. sialis) are socially monogamous passerines that engage in extra-pair copulations. We obtained microsatellites from S.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF