A key focus for geographical and policy work on obesity has involved interrogating the
concept of an 'obesogenic environment'–an environment with particular physical, social and …

Over the past decade geographers, especially social, cultural, critical and feminist
geographers, have shown a keen interest in the mutually constitutive relationship between …

Geographic treatments of the etiology of obesity tend to turn on the obesogenic environment
thesis and investigate the relationship between urban form and obesity. With their emphasis …

The rapid rise in obesity rates over the last 30 years has profound implications for the health
of populations. That this rise has occurred over a relatively short biological time scale …

In many countries, obesity is high on public health policy agendas, and geographical
research has begun to engage with obesity. However, obesity is a highly contested term …

In a world where obesity has now reached epidemic proportions, a thorough understanding
of the underlying causes of the problem is essential if society, public health initiatives and …

There has been increasing emphasis on the built urban environment within anti‐obesity
policy in the UK and elsewhere in the global north as part of a shift away from a model of …

The inclusion of obesity within public health rests on a proven and accepted biomedical link
between body weight and health status. Drawing on the 2005 controversy over annual death …

Over the past two decades, rates of adult and childhood obesity in the developed world have
risen sharply. By the year 2000, 65% of the United States population were overweight, 30 …

Abstract Background The use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to objectively
measure 'obesogenic'food environment (foodscape) exposure has become common-place …