Geographia Technica, Vol 9, Issue no. 2/2014, pp. 54-59

IDENTIFICATION AND MAPPING OF FOOD DESERTS IN RURAL AREAS: A CASE STUDY FROM SLOVAKIA

František KRIŽAN, Kristína BILKOVÁ, Gabriel ZUBRICZKÝ, Martin RIŠKA, Peter BARLÍK

ABSTRACT: The paper focuses on answers to these questions: What are food deserts? How to analyze food deserts? Where are food deserts? Is there some practical significance to identify them? Food deserts were mapped in the rural villages of functional urban region of Bratislava. The binary accessibility measure using GIS tools was applied to identify food deserts.


Keywords: Food deserts, Countryside, Accessibility measure, GIS, Bratislava

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