Food deserts? Healthy food access in Amsterdam

Applied Geography

Volumn 83, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-12

  Helbich, Marco ^a   Schadenberg, Björn ^b   Hagenauer, Julian ^c   Poelman, Maartje ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Centre of Research on Sports in Society   (Netherlands)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; CORRELATION; FOOD MARKET; PRICE DYNAMICS; PROPERTY MARKET; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUPERMARKET;

AMSTERDAM [NORTH HOLLAND]; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND;

EID: 85016024147     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.02.015     Document Type: Article

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