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Proximity to food sources is one of the quantifiable factors measurable across space impacting diet-related health outcomes. Contemporary research has coined the terms ‘food desert’ and ‘food swamp’, sometimes combined with a poverty component, to highlight disproportionate access to healthy and unhealthy food sources. However, there are...
Contemporary research has measured differences between rural and its urban/suburban counterparts on the backdrop of social, economic, political and health phenomena. However, given the ambiguity of its definition, varying meanings and applications of the word ‘rural’ exist. In this paper we explored three different popular uses of the term rural on...
While there is substantial public health literature that documents the negative impacts of living in “food deserts” (e.g., obesity, diabetes), little is known regarding whether living in a food desert is associated with increased criminal victimization. With the block-group as the unit of analysis, the present study examines whether there is a rela...
Geospatial tools such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) serve as a popular technology to assess and evaluate spatial dimensions of the food environment. While local-level policy decisions can be aided using GIS analysis and GIS data, little work has been invested in the holistic understanding of the data on which these decisions are made. In...
Food desert communities face persistent barriers in accessing affordable fresh and healthy foods, particularly for the underserved and limited-resourced minority population. This research brief proposes an integrated design concept examining human-environment dynamics of food deserts to identify strategies that would provide effective planning to
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In the study of local-level food security, terms such as food variety, availability, accessibility and utilization represent quantitative metrics to describe one’s relationship to the tangible and intangible food environment. Food availability entails how close one is located to the nearest food location. These locations could be
healthy and fresh...
While the term food insecurity is gaining popularity in contemporary literature, there is debate as to how tenets of this phenomenon can be quantitatively measured. One of these tenets, proximity to food resources, which is used to measure food deserts, can be measured within a digital GIS (Geographic Information System). Metrics such as Euclidean...
The study of food deserts and food swamps explore access to food sources, the overabundance of health ailments directly related to obesity and poor diet, as well as the relationships between the two. There are various ways to quantitatively measure tenets of food deserts and food swamps, such as food availability, using GIS (Geographic Information...
The Mw=7.0 earthquake that occurred in the vicinity of Port-au-Prince,
Haiti on january 12th, 2010 caused significant damage to the
infrastructures of the country and resulted in more than 200,00
casualties. The Republic of Haiti is part of the island of Hispaniola
and is located at the boundary between the North American and Caribbean
tectonic pla...
Two methods of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) analysis (the Slope/Area
relationship and the Stream Length Index (SL)) are tested for selected
drainage areas in the eastern Tennessee seismic zone (ETSZ), the second
most active region of the eastern and central United States. Previous
studies have shown that DEM analysis could be used to quantify surf...
1. Abstract ,The Weed and Seed program is a Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) and Department of Justice (DOJ) initiative to revitalize communities,through a holistic approach to law enforcement,and crime prevention. The goal of the Weed & Seed program,is to reduce recidivism and crime by leveraging public and private resources to support...