Just urban food systems: A new direction for food access and urban social justice

Geography Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1418-1432

  Bedore, Melanie ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD SECURITY; LITERATURE REVIEW; SOCIAL JUSTICE; URBAN GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 77956625249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00383.x     Document Type: Review

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