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Just Urban Food Systems: A New Direction for Food Access and Urban Social Justice

Abstract

Abstract Food geography has exploded as a subfield of human geography in recent years; however, normative ideas of justice are not always explicitly addressed. The concept of a ‘just urban food system’ can incorporate ideals of justice into the issue of declining retail food accessibility for low‐income urban communities –‘food deserts’– which have yet to be analysed through a lens of justice. In this article, I review geographers’ and …

Authors

Bedore M

Journal

Geography Compass, Vol. 4, No. 9, pp. 1418–1432

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

September 2010

DOI

10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00383.x

ISSN

1749-8198