Beyond Food Deserts: Assessing the Impact of Public Transit Availability Change on Spatial Access to Food

dc.contributor.advisorWilson, Jeffrey S.
dc.contributor.authorKatz, Brandon P.
dc.contributor.otherJohnson, Daniel P.
dc.contributor.otherThapa, Bhuwan
dc.contributor.otherDwyer, Owen J., III
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-06T11:53:04Z
dc.date.available2021-04-06T11:53:04Z
dc.date.issued2021-03
dc.degree.date2021en_US
dc.degree.disciplineDepartment of Geographyen
dc.degree.grantorIndiana Universityen_US
dc.degree.levelM.S.en_US
dc.descriptionIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)en_US
dc.description.abstractFood access is a dimension of food security that many struggle with even in high- income countries, which is a contributing factor to chronic diet-related disease. Inequalities in economic access to food has been addressed in public policy for several decades, but spatial access to food has only been seriously studied and addressed by policy for the past twenty-five years. After the food desert metaphor emerged, it was promptly accepted as a standard measure of food access for governments and a basis for policies created to address inequalities. Conceptual criticisms and methodological limitations of the metaphor have led the study of spatial access to food towards newer methods that measure food access more realistically and assist in the development and assessment of intervention strategies to inform policy decisions. This thesis describes the history of the food desert metaphor from its emergence until its adoption in US public policy, the conceptual criticisms and methodological limitations that surround it, and offers an analysis that measures the impact of change in the availability of public transportation on spatial access to food for various population subgroups that are more at risk of food insecurity in Marion County, Indiana. Results demonstrate that policies and plans designed without consideration for food access have an impact on it nevertheless, and that policymakers and planners can leverage such strategies to better coordinate efforts across government to reduce inequalities in spatial access to food and food insecurity overall.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/25584
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7912/C2/800
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectFood Deserten_US
dc.subjectAccessen_US
dc.subjectSpatialen_US
dc.subjectSecurityen_US
dc.subjectInsecurityen_US
dc.subjectPublic Transiten_US
dc.subjectTransportationen_US
dc.subjectPolicyen_US
dc.subjectPlanningen_US
dc.subjectFooden_US
dc.subjectSupermarketen_US
dc.subjectGTFSen_US
dc.subjectNetwork Analysisen_US
dc.subjectService Area Analysisen_US
dc.titleBeyond Food Deserts: Assessing the Impact of Public Transit Availability Change on Spatial Access to Fooden_US
dc.typeThesisen
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