Since 1995, the term 'foodscape', a contraction of food and landscape, has been used in
various research addressing social and spatial disparities in public health and food systems …

Highlights•Civil society plays different roles in urban sustainability transitions beyond civil
advocacy.•Civil society is increasingly recognized as a cog for sustainability transitions.•Civil …

In times of austerity and global environmental change, recent crises related to food (in)
securities and (un) sustainabilities urge us to reposition agri-food research. We argue that …

Over the past several decades, cities worldwide have attempted to reconfigure their food
systems to improve public health, advance social justice, and promote environmental …

Sustainably achieving the goal of global food security is one of the greatest challenges of
the 21st century. The current food system is failing to meet the needs of people, and at the …

A key focus for geographical and policy work on obesity has involved interrogating the
concept of an 'obesogenic environment'–an environment with particular physical, social and …

Since the mid-1990s, the concept of the 'urban food desert'has been extensively applied to
deprived neighbourhoods in European and North American cities. Food deserts are usually …

This research considers the relationship between neoliberalism, poverty and food insecurity
and how this impacts on the ability of a community to self-organise and become resilient …

What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural
resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with …

For the last twenty years, scholarly research has relied primarily on food deserts as a way to
frame geographic disparities in access to healthy foods. The results of this research have …