One Fish, Two Fish, Where Fish, There Fish: Defining and Identifying Seafood Deserts Using Geographical Applications in New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
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Keywords: Seafood deserts, Geospatial Analysis, Food Access, Food Deserts, Seafood
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Vanessa Heigel, Southern Connecticut State University
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Food deserts are defined as areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food. Similarly, seafood deserts are geographic spaces where access to seafood products is limited. Though seafood access is important for nutritional, socio-cultural, sustainability, and environmental justice reasons, research on the topic is scant. Therefore, this research project is twofold in that it establishes a formal geographical definition of seafood deserts and operationalizes this definition through a case study approach. It is widely accepted that there are three types of access that are germane in analyzing (sea)food deserts: (1) geographical (or spatial), (2) economic and (3) informational access. Using a GIS based modeling approach this paper explores the spatial aspects of the seafood desert concept in the state of Connecticut.
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One Fish, Two Fish, Where Fish, There Fish: Defining and Identifying Seafood Deserts Using Geographical Applications in New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
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