Using participatory and mixed-methods approaches in GIS to develop a Place-Based Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Index
Using participatory and mixed-methods approaches in GIS to develop a Place-Based Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Index
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DOI：
10.1177/0308518x16686352
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发表时间：
2017-05-01
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4.2
通讯作者：
Meenar, Mahbubur R.
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作者：
Meenar, Mahbubur R.
本文讨论了基于地点的粮食不安全和脆弱性指数（PFIVI）的发展，其中包括6个指标和30个变量。它还介绍了该指数的应用范围内的费城，美国后工业城市。本文认为，为了彻底衡量与建筑环境相关的多维社会经济问题（例如，粮食不安全和脆弱性），在地理信息系统中使用参与性和混合方法（例如，参与式地理信息系统（PGIS）可能比其他常用方法产生更全面的结果。本文对食品环境文献进行了干预，这些文献倾向于以狭隘的方式分析食品获取，通过应用概念上基于社区食品安全的方法，并通过PGIS项目进行操作。它还通过直接让利益攸关方参与复杂的基于地理信息系统的分析过程，为仍在发展的PGIS方法做出贡献。
This paper discusses the development of a Place-Based Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Index (PFIVI), which incorporates six indicators and 30 variables. It also presents an application of this Index within the context of Philadelphia, a postindustrial U.S. city. The paper argues that in order to thoroughly measure a multidimensional socioeconomic problem that is tied to the built environment (e.g., food insecurity and vulnerability), the use of participatory and mixed-methods approaches in GIS (e.g., participatory GIS or PGIS) may produce more comprehensive results compared to other commonly used methods. This paper makes an intervention in the food environment literature, which tends to analyze food access in a narrow way, by applying a methodology conceptually grounded in community food security and operationalized through a PGIS project. It also contributes to still-evolving PGIS methodologies by directly engaging stakeholders in a complicated GIS-based analytical process.