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Beyond the label: A typology for assessment and mitigation of disparities in the urban food environment.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beyond the label: A typology for assessment and mitigation of disparities in the urban food environment./
Author:	Leigh, Meredith Summer.
Description:	187 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-09A(E).
Subject:	Landscape architecture. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3569588
ISBN:	9781303069765

Beyond the label: A typology for assessment and mitigation of disparities in the urban food environment.
Leigh, Meredith Summer.

Beyond the label: A typology for assessment and mitigation of disparities in the urban food environment. - 187 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2012.

In 2009, 15% of households in the United States were considered food insecure and one in four children faced hunger every day (Nord, 2010). Previous research indicated that, in the U.S., access to healthy foods has been a challenge in many urban areas. Researchers have highlighted the effect of the built environment on rates of obesity and obesogenic disease. In predominantly low-income neighborhoods where there is a paucity of quality healthy food outlets such as supermarkets, obesity rates tend to be higher. Evidence also shows that in areas where poverty rates are high, convenience stores and fast food restaurants abound and supermarkets are scarce. This study argues that, in the literature, there is still no consensus on definitions or measurements of disparities in urban food access and contends that not all "food deserts" share the same characteristics, and therefore cannot be served by the same solutions.

ISBN: 9781303069765Subjects--Topical Terms:

541842
Landscape architecture.

Beyond the label: A typology for assessment and mitigation of disparities in the urban food environment.
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520 $a This study's aim was to develop a spatial typology for classifying disparities in urban food access in order to move beyond the common labeling of an area as a food desert or food insecure. The study was designed as a quantitative exploratory case-study using GIS to map three spatial barriers (proximity, diversity of availability and mobility) to healthy food access and to compare these spatial barriers to three socio-economic measures (income, age and single mothers). Tampa, Florida was used as the study site. The result was a typology of six scenarios that categorize each census block group based on its healthy food access characteristics.
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