The Geography of Malnutrition |
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| Authors: | Ty Beal Daniel Ervin |
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| Institution: | 1. University of California, Davis;2. University of California, Santa Barbara |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of an emerging theme within the subfield of nutritional geography we call the geography of malnutrition. Work relating to malnutrition is a high-priority research topic, with growing relevance to geographical concepts, but there is no overview of geographical approaches to this theme. Using keyword searches in Google Scholar and Web of Science to obtain relevant publications, we identified the major foci of work within this theme: undernutrition, diseases that cause malnutrition, the nutrition transition, and critical and feminist approaches to malnutrition. We review these foci, provide examples of prominent work, and identify areas of research concerning malnutrition that are highly spatial but have yet to be effectively studied using geographic techniques. |
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| Keywords: | geography health geography malnutrition nutrition transition nutritional geography |
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