Potential food deserts and food oases in a post-communist city: Access, quality, variability and price of food in Bratislava-Petržalka

Applied Geography

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 8-18

  Križan, František ^a   Bilková, Kristína ^a   Kita, Pavol ^b   Horňák, Marcel ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN BRATISLAVA   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Bratislava; Food access; Food deserts and food oases; Food price; Food quality; Food variability

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; FOOD MARKET; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SUPPLY; POST-COMMUNISM; PRICE DYNAMICS; RETAILING;

BRATISLAVA; BRATISLAVSKY; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 84928922913     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.04.003     Document Type: Article

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