Sustainability transition, social innovation, urban politics and governance
Urban/regional food systems, food access and security, public health policy
Inclusive planning, neurodiversity in urban design/planning
Unpacking Local Food Politics in Scaling Up Sustainable Public Food Procurement, Journal of Rural Studies (2026).
Sustainable Public Food Procurement and Its Policy Implications: The Case of Korea’s Eco-Friendly School Meal Program, Korean Policy Studies Review (2026), with LIM, T. and PARK, J.
Constructing ‘local’and ‘sustainable’: a critical analysis of place-based public food procurement, Geoforum (2024).
Transitions in South Korean Public Food Procurement Policy: Landscape Context, Institutionalization, and Local Agents, Environment Innovation & Societal Transitions (2024).
Disparities in Food Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Two-year Analysis, Cities (2022), with PARK, J. and KIM, C.
Government Response to Support Local Farmers in the Face of COVID-19: A Case of South Korea. Gastronomica (2020) *A commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on food systems
(Re)producing Just School Food Economies: Direct Urban-Rural Supply Chains for South Korean Communities in Transforming School Food Politics edited by Sarah Robert and Jennifer Gaddis, MIT Press (2025).
Building a Public Good: Policy and Infrastructure Development in South Korea’s Universal Free, Environment-Friendly School Lunch Program, Rockefeller Foundation. (Co-first Author) with Gaddis, J. E., Robert, S. A., & Jeon, J. (2025).
South Korea, Seoul: Urban-Rural Coexistence Public Meal Service – connecting city, rural communities, food and people. Compendium of Inspiring Practices on Urban-Rural Linkages (2nd edition). UN-Habitat. Nairobi, Kenya (2021).
Beyond the Thirty-percent Rule: Multi-threshold Longitudinal Analysis of Housing Cost Burden and Depressive Symptoms among Adult Subgroups in South Korea with LIM, T. and PARK, J.
Redefining Sustainable Urbanism through Neuro-inclusive Planning: A Scoping Review of Spatial Equity with PARK, J.
Beyond Nutrition: The Material and Symbolic Roles of School Food in Sustainability with PARK, J.
Earth Day Is Global—But We Know Food and Climate Solutions Start Locally, Food Tank (April 21, 2026).
School Meals Can Teach Lessons about Climate Resilience, Food Tank (December 26, 2025)