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Abstract: GIScience research has enhanced citizen engagement through advancements in web-based geospatial techniques and qualitative GIS methodologies, which provide opportunities for new forms of knowledge production. This paper draws on two interrelated approaches to demonstrate the ways qualitative GIS and Web 2.0 can provide nuanced analysis and foster collaborations to advance, in particular, food justice goals, which include developing equity in access to quality nutritious foods. First, the authors create a multicriteria food environment index utilizing GIS-based multicriteria modeling to represent food environments as constituted by multiple food sources and access dimensions. This enables visualization of food environment quality and indicates that food environment quality varies within a single neighborhood. Second, they utilize web GIS technologies to capture and visualize volunteered geographic information about urban food environments, demonstrating the importance of citizen perspectives to developing more nuanced understandings of these environments.

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Yang Song’s paper is titled “Examining the impact of neighboring environment on surface urban heat island effect.”

Wei Xu’s paper is titled “The relationship between socioeconomic contexts and Alzheimer’s disease mortality in the contiguous United States, 2000-2010: an ecological analysis.”

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  Wei Xu

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He also received travel awards from Association of American Geographers (AAG) Health and Medical Geography Special Group and Mary Joe Read Award by the Department of Geography at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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Research Interests: Exploring the co-operative model as an alternative to capitalist enterprise. In particular, I am interested in co-ops as an opportunity to contribute to ‘diverse economies’ and as an access point for citizenship/participatory democracies, community control and asset building/ownership among women and low-income communities of color. The questions that I hope to address revolve around uncovering the history of the cooperative movement within communities of color and the role of race in co-operative discourse and development today. Through my research I also hope to gain an understanding of the potential co-ops may have for generating long-term economic development, employment and community assets in communities of color.

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