Provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more.
Publication date: 2020
Explores the experience of hunger and food insecurity among college students at a large, public university in north Texas. Through a series of interviews of 92 food pantry clients, the author developed seven profiles of food insecurity, while also exploring the impact of childhood food insecurity and various coping strategies.
Publication date: 2020
The chapters in this edited collection explore the ways in which college and community leaders are fighting student hunger on our nation's college campuses. The contributors describe the problem of food insecurity among students, explaining why addressing it is critical to student success. Other chapters outline a series of solutions from leaders in the field.
Publication date: 2018
Challenging conventional wisdom, the authors explore the causes and consequences of food insecurity; assess some of the major policies and programs that have been designed to reduce it; and consider alternative paths forward.
Publication date: 2021
Despite the existing network of food banks and other hunger-relief organizations in the U.S. providing billions of meals a year to people in need, hunger still affects one in nine Americans. As the author writes, it takes more than food to end hunger. The key is to focus on the root causes of hunger.
Publication date: 2021
This book examines the global campaign to end hunger and malnutrition. Focus is placed on the work of the United Nations which has led international efforts to improve food security in the world's poorest countries.
Publication date: 2018
Represents criminology's first book-length contribution to the study of water and water-related crimes, harms and security. The chapters cover topics such as: water pollution, access to fresh water in the Global North and Global South, water and climate change, the commodification of water and privatization, water security and pacification, and activism and resistance surrounding issues of access and pollution.