Geographies of capital formation and rescaling: A historical-geographical approach to the food desert problem

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 133-153

  Bedore, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

access; capitalism; food desert; food geography; retail

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; DECENTRALIZATION; ECONOMIC HISTORY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD INDUSTRY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LOW INCOME POPULATION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RETAILING; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY; URBAN ECONOMY;

CANADA; KINGSTON [ONTARIO]; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84878398686     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00454.x     Document Type: Review

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