A comprehensive review of the environmental benefits of urban green spaces

F Zhang, H Qian - Environmental research, 2024 - Elsevier
This detailed analysis highlights the numerous environmental benefits provided by urban
green spaces, emphasizing their critical role in improving urban life quality and advancing …

Accessibility, equity and health care: review and research directions for transport geographers

T Neutens - Journal of Transport Geography, 2015 - Elsevier
Research at the confluence of accessibility, equity and health is flourishing. And yet, there is
only slow and modest progress in terms of improving the spatial and temporal accuracy of …

Dietary inequalities: what is the evidence for the effect of the neighbourhood food environment?

C Black, G Moon, J Baird - Health & place, 2014 - Elsevier
This review summarises the evidence for inequalities in community and consumer nutrition
environments from ten previous review articles, and also assesses the evidence for the …

[КНИГА][B] From mobility to accessibility: Transforming urban transportation and land-use planning

J Levine, J Grengs, LA Merlin - 2019 - books.google.com
Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented
planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to what accessibility is and is not. But …

Temporal variability in transit-based accessibility to supermarkets

S Farber, MZ Morang, MJ Widener - Applied Geography, 2014 - Elsevier
Food desert studies attempt to identify geographic areas in which people lack access to
sources of healthy food. While academic and policy research often defines access to food …

[HTML][HTML] The interconnected dynamics of social practices and their implications for transformative change: A review

A Klitkou, S Bolwig, A Huber, L Ingeborgrud… - Sustainable production …, 2022 - Elsevier
This review article analyses the interconnectedness of different fields of social practice. Our
aim is to understand if and how the literature using social practice theory addresses these …

Spatiotemporal accessibility to supermarkets using public transit: an interaction potential approach in Cincinnati, Ohio

MJ Widener, S Farber, T Neutens, M Horner - Journal of Transport …, 2015 - Elsevier
Improving nutrition in urban regions involves understanding which neighborhoods and
populations lack access to stores that sell healthy foods, such as fruits and vegetables. To …

Food deserts or food swamps?: A mixed-methods study of local food environments in a Mexican city

S Bridle-Fitzpatrick - Social science & medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Differential access to healthy foods has been hypothesized to contribute to disparities in
eating behaviors and health outcomes. While food deserts have been researched …

Using geolocated Twitter data to monitor the prevalence of healthy and unhealthy food references across the US

MJ Widener, W Li - Applied Geography, 2014 - Elsevier
Mining the social media outlet Twitter for geolocated messages provides a rich database of
information on people's thoughts and sentiments about myriad topics, like public health …

Spatial access to food: Retiring the food desert metaphor

MJ Widener - Physiology & behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
The food desert metaphor has been widely used over the past few decades as a way to
identify regions as being at risk for having little or no access to healthy food. While the …