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Why Is the Study of Food Environments Still Relevant?

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  • Claire Thompson

    (Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

  • Dianna Smith

    (School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK)

Abstract

Food environments are the point of intersection where people engage with the food system. As such, they are a key consideration for food policy and governance in countries across the world. This collection of articles draws upon research conducted in a range of countries and predominantly, but not exclusively, urban settings. Research presented here expands on the way food environments have traditionally been explored in academic studies since the 1990s, introducing novel methodologies for assessment and incorporating the digital food environment, as well as food aid resources. Contemporary research must contend with the theoretical challenge of conceptualizing food environments in relation to wider social forces and changes. The more practical challenge is to inform improvements to neighbourhood food environments whilst avoiding the associated propensity to further perpetuate fragmented and short‐term responses to food inequalities.

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  • Claire Thompson & Dianna Smith, 2025. "Why Is the Study of Food Environments Still Relevant?," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:urbpla:v10:y:2025:a:11594
    DOI: 10.17645/up.11594
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    1. Mosen Farhangi & Harald Rohracher & Gunilla Meurling, 2025. "Governing the Infrastructural, Spatial, and Social Consequences of Urban Digital Food Delivery Platforms," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10.
    2. Marian Simón‐Rojo & Nerea Morán Alonso & Rafael Córdoba Hernández & Araceli Serrano‐Pascual, 2025. "A Radical Reversal of Urban Bias to Create Resilient and Healthy Rural Food Environments," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10.
    3. Elena Neri, 2025. "Urban Foods Beyond Urban Food Environments: Reflections From a Rural Village in Western Bhutan," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10.
    4. Sabrina Ionata Granheim & Liv Elin Torheim & Laura Terragni & Miranda Thurston, 2025. "Conceptualizing the Digital Food Environment: A Framework," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10.
    5. Angela Dickinson, 2025. "Changing Food Places: Shifting Food Acquisition Practices of Pensioner Age Households and Food Insecurity— A Secondary Analysis," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10.
    6. Jonathan Luger & Marjoleine van der Meij, 2025. "Food Insecurity in Amsterdam Noord: Experiences of Infrastructural Violence in an Urban Food Environment," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10.
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