Food deserts, oases, or mirages?: Small markets and community food security in the San Francisco Bay area

Journal of Planning Education and Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 352-364

  Short, Anne ^a   Guthman, Julie ^b   Raskin, Samuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Community food security; Food access; Grocery retail; Local economic development

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147192587     PISSN: 0739456X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X06297795     Document Type: Article

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