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Physiology and the future of animals in shifting-sand deserts: respiration, energetics and water balance. [PDF]
Conserv PhysiolMitchell D, Seely MK, Maloney SK.
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Journal of Applied Social Science, 2010 Food deserts and accessibility represent a new frontier in the assault of life-threatening, dietrelated diseases, including diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and atherosclerosis. Scholars represent the research literature from diverse disciplines, such as anthropology, agriculture, sociology, economics, marketing, public policy, sociology, and social ...
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Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2008
Given the emerging focus on improving food environments and food systems through planning, this article investigates racial disparities in neighborhood food environments. An empirical case of Erie County, New York tests the hypothesis that people belonging to different racial groups have access to different neighborhood food destinations.
Samina Raja
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Given the emerging focus on improving food environments and food systems through planning, this article investigates racial disparities in neighborhood food environments. An empirical case of Erie County, New York tests the hypothesis that people belonging to different racial groups have access to different neighborhood food destinations.
Samina Raja
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, 2011 This chapter investigates the physical, social, and economic elements of food access and synthesizes the findings from the extant international literature, specifically exploring how food deserts have been defined and operationalized, and the key ...
Dianna Smith, Steven Cummins
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, 2022 It should not be a privilege to eat healthy. Food deserts are an environmental justice issue and public health issue. The USDA defines a food desert as a situation where 33% or more of the population lives over 1 mile away from a grocery store in urban ...
Craig, Sarah
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Progress in Human Geography, 2013
Studies of ‘food deserts’, neighborhoods in which healthy food is expensive and/or difficult to find, have received much recent political attention. These studies reflect the popularity of a social ecology in public health, rising concerns over an obesity ‘epidemic’, and the increasing ease of spatial analysis using geographic information systems (GIS).
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Studies of ‘food deserts’, neighborhoods in which healthy food is expensive and/or difficult to find, have received much recent political attention. These studies reflect the popularity of a social ecology in public health, rising concerns over an obesity ‘epidemic’, and the increasing ease of spatial analysis using geographic information systems (GIS).
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Food insecurity and food deserts
The Nurse Practitioner, 2015Food insecurity has been steadily increasing in the United States with prevalence at nearly 15% of all households. Nurse practitioners can assess for food insecurity and provide local resources for families living in neighborhoods without easy access to healthy foods, otherwise known as food deserts.
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