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This research compares food insecurity for U.K. veterans and nonveterans using the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 10-item Adult Food Security Survey Module (AFSSM) for a sample of 1,492 participants. We find 1 in 10 veterans are living in a food-insecure household but that veteran status is not related to food insecurity. In addition, income and housing benefits are correlated with food insecurity for veterans and for nonveterans, but disability benefits are correlated with food insecurity among veterans only. Specifically, veterans with disability benefits averaged 1.12 (95% confidence interval, [0.42, 1.82]) more points (indicating more food insecurity) on the AFFSM than veterans without those benefits. These findings raise concerns that low-income disabled veterans with housing needs are a unique population at risk of living in food insecurity. Given the absence of research on food insecurity among U.K. veterans, it is necessity to study this population in greater detail and implement screening protocols where possible.

Despite attending to social and economic justice issues, criminologists have said little about environmental justice, especially among underrepresented populations such as Native Americans. This review examines the social, economic, and environmental injustices Native Americans face by drawing on health and medical literature. Adapted from the source document.

1. Introduction -- 2. Treadmill of production for green criminology -- 3. Crimes of ecological withdrawals -- 4. Crimes of ecological additions -- 5. Ecological and social disorganization -- 6. The treadmill of animal abuse -- 7. Non-state actors and environmental enforcement -- 8. Conclusion.

"This innovative Handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of the complex relationship between inequality and the environment and illustrates the myriad ways in which they intersect. Featuring over 30 contributions from leading experts in the field, it explores the ways in which inequality impacts three of the most pressing contemporary environmental issues: climate change, natural resource extraction, and food insecurity. Laying the conceptual foundations for its analysis of key inequality-environment intersections, the Handbook covers theoretical traditions employed in the environmental inequality literature and examines different approaches to the concept of rights and how these influence scholarship on environmental justice. Chapters further investigate the multifaceted relationships between the natural environment and common forms of social inequalities, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social class, the economy, and the state. Bringing together cutting-edge research on diverse inequality-environment intersections, this comprehensive Handbook will be relevant to both students and researchers in the social sciences and environmental sociology, politics, and geography. Its empirical insights will also prove valuable to public and social policymakers with access to mechanisms that can shape environmental protection policies"--

"This is the first book focusing on the phenomenon often referred to as "holiday hunger" in the United Kingdom. The book begins by outlining the history and scope of holiday hunger - the condition that occurs when a child's household is, or will become, food insecure during the summer holidays. The decline of the UK welfare state and the rise of neoliberalism has created a situation where up to three million children in the UK face food insecurity during the summer months when there are extra financial pressures on the working poor and when free school meals are not available. This book details the level of childhood and household food insecurity in the UK and describes one of the main responses to holiday hunger - holiday clubs. These clubs are locally organized and funded and provide a place for children to go to eat nutritious meals for free during the school holidays. Highlighting the benefits of holiday clubs that often extend beyond food provision, this book also discusses the challenges that they face now and in the future. The book concludes with recommendations for food insecurity policy and the role of government in fighting holiday hunger. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food and nutrition security, social policy and public health"--

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: Green Theories of Justice and Political Economy -- The Chapters That Follow -- Nature "Versus" Humans or a Nature-Human Dialectic? -- Toward Conceptualizing Eco-justice -- References -- 2: Connecting Ecological Decline and Eco-justice -- Indicators of Ecological Decline -- Planetary Boundaries -- The Planetary Boundaries, Measures and Effects -- Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Radiative Forcing -- Ocean Acidification -- Stratospheric Ozone Depletion -- Biogeochemical Availability -- Biodiversity Loss -- Global Freshwater Use -- Land Use Change -- Atmospheric Aerosol Loading -- Pollutants -- Summing Up Rockstrom et al. -- The Human Ecological Footprint -- References -- 3: Eco-justice and an Orientation toward the Ecosystem -- Naming the Concept of Green Justice -- The Concept of Eco-justice -- Eco-justice, Planetary Boundaries and the Human Ecological Footprint -- Capitalism and the Production of Eco-injustice -- References -- 4: Human Social & -- Ecological Justice in the Global World Capitalist System and the Treadmill of Production -- HSEJ and Eco-justice -- The Capitalist World System, the Treadmill of Production and HSEJ -- World System Theory and HSEJ -- The Treadmill of Production and HSEJ -- Connecting the Capitalist World System, the Treadmill of Production and HSEJ -- Acknowledging Ecologically Unequal Exchange Effects -- The Relevance of Ecological Footprints and Consumption Patterns in the Global Capitalist World System -- Ecologically Unequal Exchange Includes Pollution and Waste -- Acknowledging Natural Capital Impacts -- Capitalism, Native People and HSEJ Issues -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Unsustainable Economic Development and Nonhuman Ecological Justice -- The Political Economic Analysis of Nonhuman Ecological Justice -- Nonhuman Eco-injustice (NHEJ).