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VIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík. NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RISK Nuclear power contributes only a small share to the global energy production. According to the World Energy Statistics 2015 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) nuclear power accounts for 4.8% of the total primary energy supply worldwide, far behind oil (31.1%), coal (28.9%), natural gas (21.4%) and even behind biofuels and waste(10.2%).
GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150 The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people.THE WORLD IN 2018
The World in 2018. 7.6 billion people producing an estimated global GDP of 131 trillion dollars (measured in purchasing power parity), that is the world in 2018. In its latest forecast, the International Monetary Fund predicts predicts a continuing global economic growth of 3.9%, while according to the United Nations Population Division anLANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent WORLD POPULATION CUBE World Population Cube. published February 16, 2016. Last November’s theme of the Super Science Saturday at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History was Planet Earth. As part of the activities I contributed a map cube which I created a few years ago. Cubic globes are not a new idea. They put a nice twist to showing just a simple map THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominently URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz. GERMAN ELECTION 2009 In the last series of maps we are now doing a more indepth look at the German general election results. The following maps are all based on the second vote (Zweitstimme) and map these in various ways. To get a Continue reading →VIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík. NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RISK Nuclear power contributes only a small share to the global energy production. According to the World Energy Statistics 2015 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) nuclear power accounts for 4.8% of the total primary energy supply worldwide, far behind oil (31.1%), coal (28.9%), natural gas (21.4%) and even behind biofuels and waste(10.2%).
GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150 The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people.THE WORLD IN 2018
The World in 2018. 7.6 billion people producing an estimated global GDP of 131 trillion dollars (measured in purchasing power parity), that is the world in 2018. In its latest forecast, the International Monetary Fund predicts predicts a continuing global economic growth of 3.9%, while according to the United Nations Population Division anLANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent WORLD POPULATION CUBE World Population Cube. published February 16, 2016. Last November’s theme of the Super Science Saturday at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History was Planet Earth. As part of the activities I contributed a map cube which I created a few years ago. Cubic globes are not a new idea. They put a nice twist to showing just a simple map THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominently URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz. GERMAN ELECTION 2009 In the last series of maps we are now doing a more indepth look at the German general election results. The following maps are all based on the second vote (Zweitstimme) and map these in various ways. To get a Continue reading → ABOUT ME - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD Meet the author Benjamin is a geographer educated at the Universities of Cologne & Bonn and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven/Germany) where he conducted research on hyperspectral remote sensing applications in coastal ecosystems.After working as a lecturer in human and urban geography at the Urban and Social Geography Working Group of the Department of 7 BILLION - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD 7 Billion. On July 11, 1987 the world population reached an unprecedented 5 billion, which was acknowledged with the establishment of World Population Day on that day ever since then. With the world’s population believed to reach 7 billion some time this year, this will obviously be a symbolic day (like it was back in 1987).LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per centWORLD WATER DAY
Water is a basic requirement for all life, yet water resources are facing increasing demands from, and competition among, users. In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water. (quoted from the WWD website ). Water is more than a chemical substance contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms. GERMAN ELECTION 2009 In the last series of maps we are now doing a more indepth look at the German general election results. The following maps are all based on the second vote (Zweitstimme) and map these in various ways. To get a Continue reading → A WORLD MAP OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE A World Map of Organic Agriculture. Organic agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects. Organic agriculture combines tradition, innovationand science to
MEAT EATERS
Recent projections by the World Health Organization (WHO) predict that on average each person will consume 45kg of meat per year in 2030, up from 36kg at the end of the 1990s. But there is a huge regional variation in meat consumption patterns. The above cartogram shows the excess meat consumption today by visualising how much more is consumed DEMOGRAPHIES OF CHINA Amongst the challenges linked to that is the start of the already-beginning decline of the working age population. Peng (2011) summarized the recent Census figures in a Science paper: “ The share of the total population aged 0 to 14 declined from 22.9% in 2000 to 16.6% in 2010, whereas the proportion aged 65 and above grew from 7.0%to 8.9%
VISUALISING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN GERMANY Approximately half the population of Germany lives in the 30 major urban German agglomerations, such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich (München), and Cologne (Köln) but also in smaller cities including Münster, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Dresden. The gridded cartogram helps to understand the demographic processes and development that occurredthere in
CHANGING DEMOGRAPHIES OF GERMANY Shrinking cities are part of our future, and Germany may become once more a role model for other countries to look at in the future. The demographic patchwork revealed in the map above is a picture of a Germany that has reached its peak population. if trends continue, and the world is ever closer to reaching its population peak as well.VIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík.LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RISK Nuclear power contributes only a small share to the global energy production. According to the World Energy Statistics 2015 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) nuclear power accounts for 4.8% of the total primary energy supply worldwide, far behind oil (31.1%), coal (28.9%), natural gas (21.4%) and even behind biofuels and waste(10.2%).
GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150 The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people. THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominentlyMEAT EATERS
Recent projections by the World Health Organization (WHO) predict that on average each person will consume 45kg of meat per year in 2030, up from 36kg at the end of the 1990s. But there is a huge regional variation in meat consumption patterns. The above cartogram shows the excess meat consumption today by visualising how much more is consumed URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz. GERMANY'S POPULATION GROWTH AND DECLINE Germany’s population is still shrinking, and without in-migration it would do so at a much faster pace than it does, but the spatial reality is that Germany becomes an ever more complicated patchwork of regions shrinking and growing in population with considerable implications (and challenges) for regional planning and development. GERMAN ELECTION 2009 In the last series of maps we are now doing a more indepth look at the German general election results. The following maps are all based on the second vote (Zweitstimme) and map these in various ways. To get a Continue reading →VIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík.LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RISK Nuclear power contributes only a small share to the global energy production. According to the World Energy Statistics 2015 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) nuclear power accounts for 4.8% of the total primary energy supply worldwide, far behind oil (31.1%), coal (28.9%), natural gas (21.4%) and even behind biofuels and waste(10.2%).
GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150 The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people. THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominentlyMEAT EATERS
Recent projections by the World Health Organization (WHO) predict that on average each person will consume 45kg of meat per year in 2030, up from 36kg at the end of the 1990s. But there is a huge regional variation in meat consumption patterns. The above cartogram shows the excess meat consumption today by visualising how much more is consumed URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz. GERMANY'S POPULATION GROWTH AND DECLINE Germany’s population is still shrinking, and without in-migration it would do so at a much faster pace than it does, but the spatial reality is that Germany becomes an ever more complicated patchwork of regions shrinking and growing in population with considerable implications (and challenges) for regional planning and development. GERMAN ELECTION 2009 In the last series of maps we are now doing a more indepth look at the German general election results. The following maps are all based on the second vote (Zweitstimme) and map these in various ways. To get a Continue reading → ARCHIVE - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD 25.02. - Rising high: A brief history of the housing market. 19.02. - Swiss Leaks: A world of secret money and bank accounts. 16.02. - Hyperspectral remote sensing and analysis of intertidal zones. 09.02. - Geographic visualization in social sciences: Draw more maps! 26.01.-
ABOUT ME - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD Meet the author Benjamin is a geographer educated at the Universities of Cologne & Bonn and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven/Germany) where he conducted research on hyperspectral remote sensing applications in coastal ecosystems.After working as a lecturer in human and urban geography at the Urban and Social Geography Working Group of the Department of ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS The ecological footprint shown in the following map is a measure that looks at the impact that humanity has on our planet: Humanity’s demand for goods and services created from our planet’s resources have for a long time exceeded what Earth’s ecosystems are capable of renewing. It is estimated that we exceeded this limit in 1970.THE WORLD IN 2018
The World in 2018. 7.6 billion people producing an estimated global GDP of 131 trillion dollars (measured in purchasing power parity), that is the world in 2018. In its latest forecast, the International Monetary Fund predicts predicts a continuing global economic growth of 3.9%, while according to the United Nations Population Division anWORLD WATER DAY
Water is a basic requirement for all life, yet water resources are facing increasing demands from, and competition among, users. In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water. (quoted from the WWD website ). Water is more than a chemical substance contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms. WORLD POPULATION CUBE World Population Cube. published February 16, 2016. Last November’s theme of the Super Science Saturday at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History was Planet Earth. As part of the activities I contributed a map cube which I created a few years ago. Cubic globes are not a new idea. They put a nice twist to showing just a simple map GERMAN ELECTION 2009 In the last series of maps we are now doing a more indepth look at the German general election results. The following maps are all based on the second vote (Zweitstimme) and map these in various ways. To get a Continue reading → GLOBAL GENDER INEQUALITY Global Gender Inequality. Posted on May 6, 2015 by worldmapper. The unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender is a deeply rooted problem in most societies. It started becoming an important part of academic research in the 1980s. The issue of gender inequality also became in various measures part of the Human Development Index(HDI
VISUALISING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN GERMANY Approximately half the population of Germany lives in the 30 major urban German agglomerations, such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich (München), and Cologne (Köln) but also in smaller cities including Münster, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Dresden. The gridded cartogram helps to understand the demographic processes and development that occurredthere in
BUNDESTAGSWAHL 2013: ELECTORAL MAPS OF GERMANY Bundestagswahl 2013: Electoral maps of Germany. published September 25, 2013. Germany’s vote at this year’s general election has implications that reach much further than its national borders. CDU, the party of chancellor Merkel, could secure a massive victory getting 34.1% of the second vote share, though it narrowly missed an absoluteVIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík.LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RISK Nuclear power contributes only a small share to the global energy production. According to the World Energy Statistics 2015 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) nuclear power accounts for 4.8% of the total primary energy supply worldwide, far behind oil (31.1%), coal (28.9%), natural gas (21.4%) and even behind biofuels and waste(10.2%).
GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150 The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people. THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominentlyMEAT EATERS
Recent projections by the World Health Organization (WHO) predict that on average each person will consume 45kg of meat per year in 2030, up from 36kg at the end of the 1990s. But there is a huge regional variation in meat consumption patterns. The above cartogram shows the excess meat consumption today by visualising how much more is consumed URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz. GERMANY'S POPULATION GROWTH AND DECLINE Germany’s population is still shrinking, and without in-migration it would do so at a much faster pace than it does, but the spatial reality is that Germany becomes an ever more complicated patchwork of regions shrinking and growing in population with considerable implications (and challenges) for regional planning and development. GERMAN ELECTION 2009 In the last series of maps we are now doing a more indepth look at the German general election results. The following maps are all based on the second vote (Zweitstimme) and map these in various ways. To get a Continue reading →VIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík.LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RISK Nuclear power contributes only a small share to the global energy production. According to the World Energy Statistics 2015 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) nuclear power accounts for 4.8% of the total primary energy supply worldwide, far behind oil (31.1%), coal (28.9%), natural gas (21.4%) and even behind biofuels and waste(10.2%).
GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150 The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people. THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominentlyMEAT EATERS
Recent projections by the World Health Organization (WHO) predict that on average each person will consume 45kg of meat per year in 2030, up from 36kg at the end of the 1990s. But there is a huge regional variation in meat consumption patterns. The above cartogram shows the excess meat consumption today by visualising how much more is consumed URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz. GERMANY'S POPULATION GROWTH AND DECLINE Germany’s population is still shrinking, and without in-migration it would do so at a much faster pace than it does, but the spatial reality is that Germany becomes an ever more complicated patchwork of regions shrinking and growing in population with considerable implications (and challenges) for regional planning and development. GERMAN ELECTION 2009 In the last series of maps we are now doing a more indepth look at the German general election results. The following maps are all based on the second vote (Zweitstimme) and map these in various ways. To get a Continue reading → ARCHIVE - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD 25.02. - Rising high: A brief history of the housing market. 19.02. - Swiss Leaks: A world of secret money and bank accounts. 16.02. - Hyperspectral remote sensing and analysis of intertidal zones. 09.02. - Geographic visualization in social sciences: Draw more maps! 26.01.-
ABOUT ME - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD Meet the author Benjamin is a geographer educated at the Universities of Cologne & Bonn and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven/Germany) where he conducted research on hyperspectral remote sensing applications in coastal ecosystems.After working as a lecturer in human and urban geography at the Urban and Social Geography Working Group of the Department of ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS The ecological footprint shown in the following map is a measure that looks at the impact that humanity has on our planet: Humanity’s demand for goods and services created from our planet’s resources have for a long time exceeded what Earth’s ecosystems are capable of renewing. It is estimated that we exceeded this limit in 1970.THE WORLD IN 2018
The World in 2018. 7.6 billion people producing an estimated global GDP of 131 trillion dollars (measured in purchasing power parity), that is the world in 2018. In its latest forecast, the International Monetary Fund predicts predicts a continuing global economic growth of 3.9%, while according to the United Nations Population Division anWORLD WATER DAY
Water is a basic requirement for all life, yet water resources are facing increasing demands from, and competition among, users. In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water. (quoted from the WWD website ). Water is more than a chemical substance contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms. WORLD POPULATION CUBE World Population Cube. published February 16, 2016. Last November’s theme of the Super Science Saturday at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History was Planet Earth. As part of the activities I contributed a map cube which I created a few years ago. Cubic globes are not a new idea. They put a nice twist to showing just a simple map GERMAN ELECTION 2009 In the last series of maps we are now doing a more indepth look at the German general election results. The following maps are all based on the second vote (Zweitstimme) and map these in various ways. To get a Continue reading → GLOBAL GENDER INEQUALITY Global Gender Inequality. Posted on May 6, 2015 by worldmapper. The unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender is a deeply rooted problem in most societies. It started becoming an important part of academic research in the 1980s. The issue of gender inequality also became in various measures part of the Human Development Index(HDI
VISUALISING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN GERMANY Approximately half the population of Germany lives in the 30 major urban German agglomerations, such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich (München), and Cologne (Köln) but also in smaller cities including Münster, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Dresden. The gridded cartogram helps to understand the demographic processes and development that occurredthere in
BUNDESTAGSWAHL 2013: ELECTORAL MAPS OF GERMANY Bundestagswahl 2013: Electoral maps of Germany. published September 25, 2013. Germany’s vote at this year’s general election has implications that reach much further than its national borders. CDU, the party of chancellor Merkel, could secure a massive victory getting 34.1% of the second vote share, though it narrowly missed an absoluteVIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík.LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150 The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people. NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RISK Nuclear power contributes only a small share to the global energy production. According to the World Energy Statistics 2015 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) nuclear power accounts for 4.8% of the total primary energy supply worldwide, far behind oil (31.1%), coal (28.9%), natural gas (21.4%) and even behind biofuels and waste(10.2%).
THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominently URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz.THE WORLD IN 2018
The World in 2018. 7.6 billion people producing an estimated global GDP of 131 trillion dollars (measured in purchasing power parity), that is the world in 2018. In its latest forecast, the International Monetary Fund predicts predicts a continuing global economic growth of 3.9%, while according to the United Nations Population Division an GERMANY'S POPULATION GROWTH AND DECLINE Germany’s population is still shrinking, and without in-migration it would do so at a much faster pace than it does, but the spatial reality is that Germany becomes an ever more complicated patchwork of regions shrinking and growing in population with considerable implications (and challenges) for regional planning and development. VISUALISING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN GERMANY Approximately half the population of Germany lives in the 30 major urban German agglomerations, such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich (München), and Cologne (Köln) but also in smaller cities including Münster, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Dresden. The gridded cartogram helps to understand the demographic processes and development that occurredthere in
VIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík.LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150 The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people. NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RISK Nuclear power contributes only a small share to the global energy production. According to the World Energy Statistics 2015 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) nuclear power accounts for 4.8% of the total primary energy supply worldwide, far behind oil (31.1%), coal (28.9%), natural gas (21.4%) and even behind biofuels and waste(10.2%).
THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominently URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz.THE WORLD IN 2018
The World in 2018. 7.6 billion people producing an estimated global GDP of 131 trillion dollars (measured in purchasing power parity), that is the world in 2018. In its latest forecast, the International Monetary Fund predicts predicts a continuing global economic growth of 3.9%, while according to the United Nations Population Division an GERMANY'S POPULATION GROWTH AND DECLINE Germany’s population is still shrinking, and without in-migration it would do so at a much faster pace than it does, but the spatial reality is that Germany becomes an ever more complicated patchwork of regions shrinking and growing in population with considerable implications (and challenges) for regional planning and development. VISUALISING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN GERMANY Approximately half the population of Germany lives in the 30 major urban German agglomerations, such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich (München), and Cologne (Köln) but also in smaller cities including Münster, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Dresden. The gridded cartogram helps to understand the demographic processes and development that occurredthere in
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ABOUT ME - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD Meet the author Benjamin is a geographer educated at the Universities of Cologne & Bonn and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven/Germany) where he conducted research on hyperspectral remote sensing applications in coastal ecosystems.After working as a lecturer in human and urban geography at the Urban and Social Geography Working Group of the Department of PHOTO MAP - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD Welcome to the website of Benjamin Hennig.Please visit the info page for contact details and more information about my work.WORLD WATER DAY
Water is a basic requirement for all life, yet water resources are facing increasing demands from, and competition among, users. In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water. (quoted from the WWD website ). Water is more than a chemical substance contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms.SOILS OF THE WORLD
Soils of the World. Healthy Soils for a Healthy Life is the motto of the UN International Year of Soils which aims to “ increase awareness and understanding of the importance of soil for food security and essential ecosystem functions. ” As explained on the campaign’s website, “soil is the thin layer of material on theEarth’s surface.
GERMANY'S POPULATION GROWTH AND DECLINE Germany’s population is still shrinking, and without in-migration it would do so at a much faster pace than it does, but the spatial reality is that Germany becomes an ever more complicated patchwork of regions shrinking and growing in population with considerable implications (and challenges) for regional planning and development.SPECIES AT RISK
Trying to get a picture of where and how many species globally are endangered or even at risk of extinction is a difficult undertaking. For 50 years the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) publishes the red list of threatened species. The list is a “comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species and their links to GLOBAL GENDER INEQUALITY Global Gender Inequality. Posted on May 6, 2015 by worldmapper. The unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender is a deeply rooted problem in most societies. It started becoming an important part of academic research in the 1980s. The issue of gender inequality also became in various measures part of the Human Development Index(HDI
VISUALISING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN GERMANY Approximately half the population of Germany lives in the 30 major urban German agglomerations, such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich (München), and Cologne (Köln) but also in smaller cities including Münster, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Dresden. The gridded cartogram helps to understand the demographic processes and development that occurredthere in
BUNDESTAGSWAHL 2013: ELECTORAL MAPS OF GERMANY Bundestagswahl 2013: Electoral maps of Germany. published September 25, 2013. Germany’s vote at this year’s general election has implications that reach much further than its national borders. CDU, the party of chancellor Merkel, could secure a massive victory getting 34.1% of the second vote share, though it narrowly missed an absoluteVIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík.LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150 The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people. NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RISK Nuclear power contributes only a small share to the global energy production. According to the World Energy Statistics 2015 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) nuclear power accounts for 4.8% of the total primary energy supply worldwide, far behind oil (31.1%), coal (28.9%), natural gas (21.4%) and even behind biofuels and waste(10.2%).
THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominently URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz.THE WORLD IN 2018
The World in 2018. 7.6 billion people producing an estimated global GDP of 131 trillion dollars (measured in purchasing power parity), that is the world in 2018. In its latest forecast, the International Monetary Fund predicts predicts a continuing global economic growth of 3.9%, while according to the United Nations Population Division an GERMANY'S POPULATION GROWTH AND DECLINE Germany’s population is still shrinking, and without in-migration it would do so at a much faster pace than it does, but the spatial reality is that Germany becomes an ever more complicated patchwork of regions shrinking and growing in population with considerable implications (and challenges) for regional planning and development. VISUALISING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN GERMANY Approximately half the population of Germany lives in the 30 major urban German agglomerations, such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich (München), and Cologne (Köln) but also in smaller cities including Münster, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Dresden. The gridded cartogram helps to understand the demographic processes and development that occurredthere in
VIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík.LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150 The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people. NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RISK Nuclear power contributes only a small share to the global energy production. According to the World Energy Statistics 2015 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) nuclear power accounts for 4.8% of the total primary energy supply worldwide, far behind oil (31.1%), coal (28.9%), natural gas (21.4%) and even behind biofuels and waste(10.2%).
THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominently URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz.THE WORLD IN 2018
The World in 2018. 7.6 billion people producing an estimated global GDP of 131 trillion dollars (measured in purchasing power parity), that is the world in 2018. In its latest forecast, the International Monetary Fund predicts predicts a continuing global economic growth of 3.9%, while according to the United Nations Population Division an GERMANY'S POPULATION GROWTH AND DECLINE Germany’s population is still shrinking, and without in-migration it would do so at a much faster pace than it does, but the spatial reality is that Germany becomes an ever more complicated patchwork of regions shrinking and growing in population with considerable implications (and challenges) for regional planning and development. VISUALISING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN GERMANY Approximately half the population of Germany lives in the 30 major urban German agglomerations, such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich (München), and Cologne (Köln) but also in smaller cities including Münster, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Dresden. The gridded cartogram helps to understand the demographic processes and development that occurredthere in
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ABOUT ME - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD Meet the author Benjamin is a geographer educated at the Universities of Cologne & Bonn and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven/Germany) where he conducted research on hyperspectral remote sensing applications in coastal ecosystems.After working as a lecturer in human and urban geography at the Urban and Social Geography Working Group of the Department of PHOTO MAP - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD Welcome to the website of Benjamin Hennig.Please visit the info page for contact details and more information about my work.WORLD WATER DAY
Water is a basic requirement for all life, yet water resources are facing increasing demands from, and competition among, users. In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water. (quoted from the WWD website ). Water is more than a chemical substance contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms.SOILS OF THE WORLD
Soils of the World. Healthy Soils for a Healthy Life is the motto of the UN International Year of Soils which aims to “ increase awareness and understanding of the importance of soil for food security and essential ecosystem functions. ” As explained on the campaign’s website, “soil is the thin layer of material on theEarth’s surface.
GERMANY'S POPULATION GROWTH AND DECLINE Germany’s population is still shrinking, and without in-migration it would do so at a much faster pace than it does, but the spatial reality is that Germany becomes an ever more complicated patchwork of regions shrinking and growing in population with considerable implications (and challenges) for regional planning and development.SPECIES AT RISK
Trying to get a picture of where and how many species globally are endangered or even at risk of extinction is a difficult undertaking. For 50 years the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) publishes the red list of threatened species. The list is a “comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species and their links to GLOBAL GENDER INEQUALITY Global Gender Inequality. Posted on May 6, 2015 by worldmapper. The unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender is a deeply rooted problem in most societies. It started becoming an important part of academic research in the 1980s. The issue of gender inequality also became in various measures part of the Human Development Index(HDI
VISUALISING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN GERMANY Approximately half the population of Germany lives in the 30 major urban German agglomerations, such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich (München), and Cologne (Köln) but also in smaller cities including Münster, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Dresden. The gridded cartogram helps to understand the demographic processes and development that occurredthere in
BUNDESTAGSWAHL 2013: ELECTORAL MAPS OF GERMANY Bundestagswahl 2013: Electoral maps of Germany. published September 25, 2013. Germany’s vote at this year’s general election has implications that reach much further than its national borders. CDU, the party of chancellor Merkel, could secure a massive victory getting 34.1% of the second vote share, though it narrowly missed an absoluteVIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík. GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150HUMAN POPULATION CHARTHUMAN POPULATION DEFINITIONHUMAN POPULATION OVER TIMEHUMAN POPULATION THROUGH HISTORY The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people.LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz. THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominently GLOBAL GENDER INEQUALITY Global Gender Inequality. Posted on May 6, 2015 by worldmapper. The unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender is a deeply rooted problem in most societies. It started becoming an important part of academic research in the 1980s. The issue of gender inequality also became in various measures part of the Human Development Index(HDI
FORTRESS EUROPE?
Fortress Europe? “The right to asylum shall be guaranteed with due respect for the rules of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 and the Protocol of 31 January 1967 relating to the status of refugees and in accordance with the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.”. GERMAN ELECTION 2009 In the last series of maps we are now doing a more indepth look at the German general election results. The following maps are all based on the second vote (Zweitstimme) and map these in various ways. To get a Continue reading → BUNDESTAGSWAHL 2013: ELECTORAL MAPS OF GERMANY Bundestagswahl 2013: Electoral maps of Germany. published September 25, 2013. Germany’s vote at this year’s general election has implications that reach much further than its national borders. CDU, the party of chancellor Merkel, could secure a massive victory getting 34.1% of the second vote share, though it narrowly missed an absoluteVIEWS OF THE WORLD
rediscovering the world. If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. WHERE THE LAVA FLOWS: VOLCANO UPDATE FROM ICELAND Where the lava flows: Volcano update from Iceland. On 19. March 2021 a volcanic eruption started in the Geldingadalir valley at the Fagradalsfjall mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula, South-West Iceland. The volcano is situated approximately 30 km from the country’s capital city, Reykjavík. GLOBAL POPULATION CHANGES: FROM 2.5 TO 10 BILLION IN 150HUMAN POPULATION CHARTHUMAN POPULATION DEFINITIONHUMAN POPULATION OVER TIMEHUMAN POPULATION THROUGH HISTORY The world’s population has reached the symbolic milestone of adding another billion to this planet. While 7 billion is a static number, the expansion and distribution of the world’s population is a very dynamic issue that a single map of where these 7 billion are living (as shown on this website back in July) does not do full justice of what is happening on the planet of people.LANGUAGE DIVERSITY
The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. Other estimates state that 2/3 of the world’s population share only 12 languages. But it is the diversity of the languages spoken by the few that makes language a remarkable cultural phenomenon. It is estimated that about 96 per cent URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF COLOGNE (KÖLN) Today’s city structure is a heterogeneous mosaic of the different major phases of urban development, of which each phase left a unique pattern in the urban landscape since the early Romans built their first fortification at the west bank of the Rhine river in the year 50 A.D. just opposite of an Ubi settlement in today’s quarter Deutz. THE POPULATION OF GERMANY The Population of Germany. Posted on October 3, 2010 by worldmapper. Today Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of unification of the until 1990 split East (German Democratic Republic) and West (Federal Republic of Germany). But while the areas have merged, in many people’s minds the division remains – recently prominently GLOBAL GENDER INEQUALITY Global Gender Inequality. Posted on May 6, 2015 by worldmapper. The unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender is a deeply rooted problem in most societies. It started becoming an important part of academic research in the 1980s. The issue of gender inequality also became in various measures part of the Human Development Index(HDI
FORTRESS EUROPE?
Fortress Europe? “The right to asylum shall be guaranteed with due respect for the rules of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 and the Protocol of 31 January 1967 relating to the status of refugees and in accordance with the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.”. GERMAN ELECTION 2009 In the last series of maps we are now doing a more indepth look at the German general election results. The following maps are all based on the second vote (Zweitstimme) and map these in various ways. To get a Continue reading → BUNDESTAGSWAHL 2013: ELECTORAL MAPS OF GERMANY Bundestagswahl 2013: Electoral maps of Germany. published September 25, 2013. Germany’s vote at this year’s general election has implications that reach much further than its national borders. CDU, the party of chancellor Merkel, could secure a massive victory getting 34.1% of the second vote share, though it narrowly missed an absolute ARCHIVE - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD 25.02. - Rising high: A brief history of the housing market. 19.02. - Swiss Leaks: A world of secret money and bank accounts. 16.02. - Hyperspectral remote sensing and analysis of intertidal zones. 09.02. - Geographic visualization in social sciences: Draw more maps! 26.01.-
PHOTO MAP - VIEWS OF THE WORLDVIEWS OF THE WORLD Welcome to the website of Benjamin Hennig.Please visit the info page for contact details and more information about my work. WASTE AND RECYCLING IN EUROPE Posted on March 19, 2020 by worldmapper. The European Waste Framework Directive sets a target of 50 per cent of municipal waste to be prepared for reuse and recycling by 2020 in the European Union. With that year approaching, a look at the most recent European-wide statistics on waste generation and treatment published in 2017 showsthe
NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RISK Nuclear power contributes only a small share to the global energy production. According to the World Energy Statistics 2015 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) nuclear power accounts for 4.8% of the total primary energy supply worldwide, far behind oil (31.1%), coal (28.9%), natural gas (21.4%) and even behind biofuels and waste(10.2%).
WORLD WATER DAY
Water is a basic requirement for all life, yet water resources are facing increasing demands from, and competition among, users. In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as the World Day for Water. (quoted from the WWD website ). Water is more than a chemical substance contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms.FORTRESS EUROPE?
Fortress Europe? “The right to asylum shall be guaranteed with due respect for the rules of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 and the Protocol of 31 January 1967 relating to the status of refugees and in accordance with the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.”. ON THE GRID: WORLDMAPPER AND BEYOND On the grid: Worldmapper and beyond. My research on gridded cartograms has its roots in the works of the Worldmapper project, which was originally released in 2006/07 and extended in the following years. While the first phase of the Worldmapper project has visually describes the world, mapping the national contours of hundreds ofvariables, it
DEATH PENALTY
Amnesty “ recorded 607 executions in 22 countries in 2014 – a decrease of 22% compared with 2013. 22 countries carried out executions: the same number as last year. ” Regarding the sentences, as shown in the second map below, “ 55 countries are known to have sentenced at least 2,466 people to death in 2014 – a 28% increasefrom 2013.
A YEAR OF MAPS
A Year Of Maps. 2018 has seen the new Worldmapper come to light, which is also why this blog has become a bit more quiet in recent months. This year’s Christmas greetings show a collage of the 569 new maps that we have published on Worldmapper since its launch in April: With this, wishing you peace, love, and happiness for the holidays. GERMAN ELECTION 2009 German election 2009 – Part I. published September 28, 2009. From the previous posts you should now be quite familiar with Germany’s “new” shape when putting the population in perspective. If you are still struggling with it, try this map to see some important cities labelled on top of the map.VIEWS OF THE WORLD
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US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2020FEATURED
published November 17, 2020 This cartogram shows the distribution of votes for the two main candidates in the 2020 US Presidential election. Shown in diverging colours is each respective candidate who received the largest share of votes in each county. The cartogram itself shows an equal-population projection (gridded population cartogram) where each grid cell in the map is resized according to the total number of people living there. The main cartogram is accompanied by a ‘conventional’ reference map that also shows the states of Alaska and Hawaii (using state-level results for these two states): (click for larger version) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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RE-ENLIGHTENING VIEWS OF THE WORLDFEATURED
published April 7, 2020 A time where ‘real world’ conferences are a memory of the past is a good opportunity to look at the wealth of material that has been put online instead. Here is one of my talks that has recently been put online. It’s a four-minute ‘Lightning talk’ given at last year’s Anniversary Annual Conference of the Global Young Academy . Lightning Talks are giving a brief overview of a topic aimed at a broader audience, and here I am – obviously – talking about mapping and cartograms: Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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THE 2019 UK GENERAL ELECTIONFEATURED
published December 13, 2019 If the 2016 vote for Brexit was described as a political earthquake in the United Kingdom, then the 2019 General Election is the equivalent to the tsunami that followed this seismic event and swept over some of the deepest Labour heartlands in England. Political commentators spoke of a demolishment of the Labour party’s ‘red wall’ as the results came in (although the ‘wall’ that may have once stood had already started to crumble in previous elections). Approaching the outcome of the General Election from a visual perspective puts such metaphors into a visual representation. The following map shows the outcome of this year’s general election – the fourth (and definitely final) of this decade – in three different cartographicvisualisations:
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SMOKE AND MIRRORS: SMOKING PREVALENCE AND TOBACCO ADVERTISING POLICIESFEATURED
published October 7, 2019 Cigarette smoking and other uses of tobacco are major contributors to preventable illness and death. A 2008 World Health Organization (WHO)report
estimated that around 70 per cent of the adult male population in Russia was smoking. Another WHO study estimated that prevalence of smoking amongst women is about one fifth of that amongst men. Prevalence levels of daily smokers are generallylower.
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INEQUALITIES OF GENDER: EDUCATION, WORK, AND POLITICSFEATURED
published September 9, 2019This contribution
for Political Insight (June 2019, Volume 10, Issue 2) maps gender inequality around the world and argues that the political sphere is often the most resistant to change. Unequal treatment based on gender is deeply embedded in many countries. Gender studies emerged as an important part of academic research in the 1980s. The issue of gender inequality also emerged on the global political agenda, albeit slowly. Gender-related measures became part of the Human Development Index (HDI) by the United Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP).
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BEES IN TROUBLE? HONEYBEE SHORTAGES IN EUROPEFEATURED
published August 19, 2019 Recent research shows that increasing shortages in honeybees threaten pollination of crops in Europe. Although according to a study covering 41 European countries the overall number of honeybee stocks has increased by 7 per cent between 2005 and 2010 (to an estimated 13.4 million colonies with 7 billion honeybees), 15 countries have also experienced declines ranging from 4 per cent in Slovenia to 47 per cent in Switzerland. At the same time have changes in agricultural practices led to considerable changes in the need for pollination. Increases in pollinated crop areas are contributed to the growth of areas for producing biofuel crops (oilseed rape, sunflower and soybean), as have the use of pesticides led to a decline in the numberof bees.
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EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY: HUMANITY’S FOOTPRINTSFEATURED
published July 29, 2019 This year July, 29th is Earth Overshoot Day : “Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources (fish and forests, for instance) and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. We maintain this deficit by liquidating stocks of resources and accumulating waste, primarily carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.” Earth’s ability to sustain humanity’s existence is linked to the planet’s productivity and its biological capacity. In the wider sense, this does not only refer to the resources that humans consume, but also nature’s capability to absorb and regenerate the waste that we produce. With a still growing population as well as an increasing use of natural resources, biocapacity is under constant pressure. On a sustainable planet, all of humanity would only use the resources and produces waste at a level that does not deplete nature. (click for larger version) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE CARTOGRAMS GONE?FEATURED
published June 19, 2019 You might have been wondering why there are so few new cartograms appearing on this blog. Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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THE GROWTH AND DECLINE OF URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN GERMANYFEATURED
published April 29, 2019 Approximately half the population of Germany lives in the 30 major urban German agglomerations, such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich (München), and Cologne (Köln) but also in smaller cities including Münster, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Dresden. These urban regions (Stadtregionen) are also major analytical units of the Federal institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) within the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning that advises the Federal Government in the fields of spatial planning, urban development, housing and building. Therefore, these regions that cover approximately 32 per cent of the built-up area used for settlement or transport infrastructure are of particular interest in understanding urban dynamics in Germany in a regional and national context (Baumgart et al, 2016). (click for larger version) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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FORTRESS EUROPE?
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published April 10, 2019 “The right to asylum shall be guaranteed with due respect for the rules of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 and the Protocol of 31 January 1967 relating to the status of refugees and in accordance with the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.” Article 18 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights outlines the European Union’s legal framework for its asylum policies that have come under intense scrutiny and political pressure since the height of the significant number of refugees trying to literally reach the shores of the continent from conflict zones in Africa and the Middle East. While refugee numbers went down again to pre-2015 levels and below due to considerable political interventions, the political debate has not disappeared and continues to heavily influence European politics including major shifts towards the right end of the political spectrum in many member states. In an articlefor
the “In Focus” section of Political Insight (September 2018, Volume 9, Issue 3) I looked at recent developments in Europe’s “refugee crisis”. Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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THE DIAMOND DIMENSIONSFEATURED
published December 10, 2018 Due to its distinct geologic conditions for their formations, the occurrence of diamonds is confined to around 35 countries in the world. While countries such as Australia, India, or Canada focus more on mining industrial diamonds, African countries such as Botswana and South Africa are better known for their production of gem diamonds. Diamond mining activities in many African countries are often also linked to conflicts and controversial human rights conditions. According to data collected by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), which covers an about 99.8 per cent of global diamond production, 134 million carats of diamonds worth US$ 12.4 billion were produced in 2016. This most recent figure is slightly up from the average annual production since the start of the financial crisis in2008.
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DANGER ZONES: MAPPING EUROPE’S EARTHQUAKESFEATURED
published October 29, 2018 A deeper understanding and better communication of earthquake risk has been a major challenge in geosciences for a long time. The Global Earthquake Model initiative aims to become the world’s most complete source of earthquake risk resources and works towards a globally accepted standard for risk assessment. As part of this collaborative initiative, the EU-funded SHARE (‘Seismic Hazard Harmonization in Europe’) project helped in generating the first consistent regional seismic hazard model for Europe (including Turkey). The model, published in 2013, overcomes the limitation of national borders and includes a thorough quantification of the uncertainties. Seismic hazard data collected for this model consisted of records from more than 30,000 earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.5 and above on the Richter scale which occurred since the year 1000, as shown in the smaller map in this feature. To fully consider that hazards do not only reflect the mere occurrence of major seismic events, but also the damage they create, the model also factors in the earthquakes’ damaging effects. Moderate earthquakes in very densely populated regions can have a major impact. The vulnerability of populations depends on a multitude of factors that go beyond the actual earthquake’s magnitude. (click for larger version) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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WORLDMAPPER: THE RELAUNCHFEATURED
published April 29, 2018 There is a new map in town! Earlier this month during the 125th Anniversary Conference of the Geographical Associationin
Sheffield (UK) we relaunched the new Worldmapper.org online platform which has been several years in the making. It is not only a fully redesigned website, but also redefines what we want Worldmapper to become over a decade after it has first been released: An atlas for the 21st century that is mapping our place in the world using cartograms. At the very heart of it Worldmapper is still a collection of world maps where countries are resized according to a broad range of global issues. But with the new website we will increasingly use more diverse cartogram techniques, such as gridded cartograms, as well as start including maps at different scales such as country-level mappings seen on this blog in many ways. Worldmapper will therefore be the most comprehensive repository for cartogram-style mappings that are unique visualisations showing the world as you’ve never seen it before. Check it out at: Worldmapper.org Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS AND GRADUATES IN EUROPEFEATURED
published March 28, 2018 Promoting equity in education and training is consistent with the European welfare state model, with part of the Europe 2020 Strategy aiming to significantly reduce numbers of early leavers from education and increase numbers of graduates with a university degree. The following maps give an insight into the social and spatial disparities in higher education across Europe’s countries and regions. They are all gridded population cartograms where each area is proportional to the number of people living there. This is a map of students as a percentage of the total population aged 20–24. The reported share can often be higher than 100%, where there are more students who study and live in a city in term time than the numbers of 20- to 24-year-olds that the city officially houses. Also many students are counted who are aged 18, 19 or over 24: (click for larger version) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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THE WORLD IN 2018
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published January 26, 2018 7.6 billion people producing an estimated global GDP of 131 trillion dollars (measured in purchasing power parity), that is the world in 2018. In its latest forecast, the International Monetary Fund predicts predicts a continuing global economic growth of 3.9%, while according to the United Nations Population Division an extra 83 million people will populate this planet (1.9% growth). The following two cartograms show, how the distribution of wealth and people looks this year by resizing each country according to the total number of people (top)/GDP output (bottom): (click for larger version) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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CHANGING POLITICAL LANDSCAPES OF GERMANY 2017FEATURED
published September 26, 2017 The following cartogram series provides a detailed look into the changed political landscapes in Germany following this year’s general election. While the previous maps gave an insight into the strongest party in each constituency, these maps give a clearer picture of the vote share distribution that also determines the constitution of parliament which follows a system of proportional representation. Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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UNEQUAL ELITE: WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2016/17FEATURED
published July 19, 2017 Education and money undoubtedly go hand in hand. A closer look at the metrics that go into the creation of higher education rankings such as the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings(THE
WUR) proofs just the point that without adequate resources and funding global success can hardly be achieved. The following map which was created by analysing data of the 2016/17 World University Ranking data with regards to its spatial distribution of the most successful universities in this ranking. The map is a gridded cartogram which is reshaped to show national wealth, measured by gross domestic product. The land area in each country has been resized to reflect economic output. North America and Western Europe bugle to dominate this world map, while the entire continent of Africa virtually disappears. On this new world map, all the universities in the THE World University Rankings are plotted, with the larger, red dots representing world’s top 50 universities and the smaller circles representing the lowerranks:
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BRITAIN ELECTS: THE CHANGESFEATURED
published June 13, 2017 “Nothing has changed”
was the infamous quote made by Theresa May during this year’s UK election campaign over a policy u-turn.
This marked the beginning of a reverse of the Conservative support in the polls which eventually led to the changes that changed the political geography of the United Kingdom significantly when compared to the just as surprising result of the 2015 election. The following map uses the same approach as the previous map series showing the winning party in each constituency, but adds further detail to the picture by also highlighting how seats have changed between the last and thiselection:
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THE REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF POVERTY, AUSTERITY AND INEQUALITY IN EUROPEFEATURED
published May 9, 2017 Europe is currently suffering a deep political and economic crisis following years of turmoil and austerity measures that have disproportionately and brutally hit the most disadvantaged regions and citizens across most of the continent. At the same time, there has been a revival of nationalisms and divisions in this part of the world that, a decade ago, seemed to be united in diversity and moving towards ever-closer union. Concentrated poverty near to riches and profound spatial inequality have long been persistent features of all European countries, with disparities often being most stark within the most affluent cities and regions, such as London. In other parts of Europe levels of inequality and poverty have been reducing and are often much lower. However, the severe economic crisis and austerity measures have led, in many cases, to an enhancement of existing disparities. The following eight maps show how the regional geography has changed in the light of these developments:GDP
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(UN)HAPPY NATIONS
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published March 20, 2017 March, 20th is the United Nations’ International Day of Happiness , recognising ‘the importance of happiness in the lives of people around the world’. Bhutan is credited as the first country to have implemented the concept of ‘Gross National Happiness ’ as an official measure for the state of a nation, introduced in 1972. After the global financial crash in 2008, ideas about giving the ‘spiritual, physical, social and environmental health of and natural environment’ more prominence over mere economic development are reflected more and more in international efforts towards asustainable future.
The Happy Planet Index (HPI), developed by the New Economics Foundation , takes a rather radical approach on this issue. It aims to measure well-being and happiness by taking a universal and long-term approach to understanding, how efficiently people in a country are using their environmental resources to live long and happy lives. This cartogram maps the results of the 2016 Happy Planet Index from the perspective of people. The gridded population cartogram shows the world resized according to the number of people living in each area, combined with the national HPI score: (click for larger version including additional detail) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2016FEATURED
published November 12, 2016 The electorate of the United States of America has come to a decision about who is to become their next president. But not quite the whole electorate went to the polls: Turnout was at a long-term low with about 55% of voting age citizen having cast their ballot in the 2016 presidential election. Long gone are the days in which up to around 80% of the electorate went to the polls: This was last seen in the 19th century.
62,979,636 votes (46.1%) were cast for Donald Trump, while Hillary Clinton received 65,844,610 votes (48.2%). Other candidates put together reached 7,804,213 votes (5.7%). The following cartogram shows the distribution of votes for the two main candidates. Shown in diverging colours is each respective candidate who received the largest share of votes in each county. The cartogram itself shows an equal-population projection (gridded population cartogram) where each grid cell in the map is resized according to the total number of people living there. The main cartogram is accompanied by a second cartogram showing the distribution of votes that went to neither of the two candidates, and a ‘conventional’ reference map that also shows the states of Alaska and Hawaii: (click for larger and labelled version) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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THE EU REFERENDUM
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published June 24, 2016 (click for larger version) The decision has been made: 17,410,742 people of the United Kingdom’s 65 million population voted for leaving the European Union. These are about 26.8% of the UK’s resident population, or 37.4% of the electorate in this EU referendum. It also equals 51.9% of the valid votes cast, as stated in the official figures from the electoral commission.
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SEVEN MAPS OF THE WORLDFEATURED
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WORLD POPULATION CUBEFEATURED
published February 16, 2016Last
November’s theme of the Super Science Saturdayat the Oxford
University Museum of Natural History was Planet Earth. As part of the activities I contributed a map cube which I created a few yearsago.
Cubic globes
are not a new idea. They put a nice twist to showing just a simple map, and more importantly, they allow for some activity which get the kids involved just as much as adults. A cube is much less work than creating a spheric version of Earth, and (as said by Carlos Furuti on his online cube globe collection)
_the cube is an ideal introduction to folding one’s ownpseudoglobes_.
At last November’s Super Science Saturday I displayed some of my work and offered a ‘Map Cube Activity’ where children (and adults) could cut, fold and glue their own globes. My version of a map cube does not display a normal world map, but a gridded population cartogram (hence the name ‘World Population Cube’). You can create your own cube by using the following template: Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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MAPPING THE ANTHROPOCENEFEATURED
published January 11, 2016 The effects of humans on the global environment are perceived to be so significant by some scientists that they arguethe onset of
industrialisation (in the eighteenth century) has been a major driving force in environmental change on a par with the forces of nature. It is this rapid impact that has led some geologists to unofficially name (but not, as yet, officially recognise)
this recent period of the earth’s history (from around 1760-onwards) as the _Anthropocene_ (roughly translating as the era – or epoch – shaped considerably through the actions of humanity). _Gridded population cartogram displaying the topography of the world in relation to the population distribution_ (click here for largerversion)
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EARTHQUAKE RISK ZONES: A PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVEFEATURED
published April 25, 2015 In a paper for the Journal of Maps published in 2014 I have analysed and visualised data documenting earthquakes that have occurred since 2150 BC. The following map was part of the material supplementing the publication showing the results of the analysis shown on an equal population projection. The gridded cartogram gives every person on the planet an equal amount of space while highlighting the most densely populated spaces in relation to the earthquake risk (calculated via the intensity of earthquakes recorded since 2150 BC). Also shown are the world’s megacities (over 5 million population). The map shows the large populations that make even Nepal (with its almost 28 million people) much more visible than it would be on a conventional map, highlighting why this event turns out to be quite disastrous. The map also shows what the USGS statement above mentions that Nepal is amongst the areas in the region which are far less subject to major earthquakes (as indicated by the yellow to blue shading in the mapthere):
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WATER WORLDS: OCEAN CHLOROPHYLL LEVELSFEATURED
published March 2, 2015 The ocean is the last frontier that has not been discovered by cartogram techniques before. As such, it was an inevitable step in my PhD research some years ago to test the creation of a gridded ocean cartogram, a cartogram that is limited to the extent of the world’s oceans (also linking nicely to my past research on coastal ecosystems).
Chlorophyll concentrations in the world’s oceans are important indicators for the presence of algae and other plant-like organisms that carry out photosynthesis. As such, phytoplankton (which contains the chlorophyll) is an essential element of the food chain in the seas as it provides the food for numerous animals. Variations and changes in the chlorophyll levels are also relevant for the study of the ecology of the sea. Changing chlorophyll levels can indicate changing sea temperatures and other conditions in the oceans that cover about 72 percent of the planet’s surface. (click for larger version) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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IN FOCUS: WEALTH ON THE BRITISH ISLESFEATURED
published December 15, 2014 The debate about the relevance and impact of the super-rich on society has gained greater currency as evidence continues to grow that the widening gap between the poor and the rich has a negative impact on societies as a whole. In otherwise affluent countries where the richest one per cent owns the most, child poverty is common, school attainment is lower and medium household incomes are depressed. Along with reduced average living standards, housing is of poorer quality, and health suffers as anxiety rises. In an article for the “In Focus” section of Political Insight (December 2014, Volume 5, Issue 3)Danny Dorling and I
looked beyond the economic, social, educational and medical implications, focussing on the geographical lessons to learn when wealth concentrates. Where the richest of the rich live, work and where they keep their assets is even more imbalanced than the wider and growing underlying inequalities between rich and poor. In societies where the rich have less they tend to be more spread out across a country, but when the wealth of those at the top rises greatly there is a tendency to congregate – with London a primeexample.
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DEMOGRAPHIES OF CHINAFEATURED
published October 22, 2014 This week I joined the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic) as a visiting lecturer by invitation of the CHINET project. In my lecture about New Geographies of China I built on the work I have presented earlier this year at the Conference on the Socio-Economic Transition of China at the same place, teaching the students not only how China’s position is in the global context of demographic, social and economic change, but also how we can visualise this in novel ways. The following three maps are an extract from my presentation that gave an overview of this lecture. The maps show the distribution of the different age groups in the country divided into children (age 0 to 14), working age (age 15 to 64) and elderly (above age 64) as they are counted in the official Chinese Census released by the National Bureau of Statistics . As the most recent Census figures have not been released at the same level of detail, the following three maps show the state of 2000. Here is an animated version of the three maps showing all three groups one after another (the individual maps are displayed below):
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IN FOCUS: THE REAL SIZE OF OFFSHORE FINANCIAL CENTRESFEATURED
published November 27, 2013 In an article for the “In Focus” section of Political Insight (December 2013, Volume 4, Issue 3) Jan Fichtner of the University of Frankfurt a.M.and I
analysed the size of the foreign assets in the world’s largest offshore financial centres. All ‘offshore financial centres’ (OFCs) have one characteristic feature in common; they offer very low tax rates and lax regulations to non-residents with the aim to attract foreign financial assets. OFCs essentially undercut ‘onshore’ jurisdictions at their expense. The main beneficiaries are high-net-worth individuals and large multinational corporations that have the capital and expertise required to utilise OFCs. Beyond its geographical connotation the phenomenon of ‘offshore’ represents a withdrawal of public regulation and control, primarily over finance. Some important OFCs are in fact located ‘onshore’, e.g. Delaware in the USA and the City of London in the UK. However, historically many OFCs have literally developed ‘off-shore’, mostly on smallislands.
OFCs as defined by Zoromé (2007) are
jurisdictions that provide financial services to non-residents on a scale that is excessive compared to the size and the financing of their domestic economies. The graphic shows combined data on securities (Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey by the IMF) and on deposits/loans (Locational Banking Statistics by the BIS) at the end of 2011. Capturing the two by far most important components of financial centres allows a reasonable approximation of the real size of OFCs while avoiding double counting. The larger the size of the circles on the map, the more foreign financial assets have been attracted to the particular jurisdiction. The vast majority of the almost US$70 trillion foreign financial assets are concentrated in North America, Europe and Japan. Areas with assets below $US50bn are not shown for their relative insignificance in the global context. Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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THE HUMAN PLANET: A MODERN MAPPA MUNDIFEATURED
published June 3, 2013 “_A mappa mundi is any medieval European map of the world. To modern eyes, mappae mundi can look superficially primitive and inaccurate. However, mappae mundi were never meant to be used as navigational charts and they make no pretence of showing the relative areas of land and water. Rather, mappae mundi were schematic and were meant to illustrate different principles. The simplest mappae mundi were diagrams meant to preserve and illustrate classical learning easily. The zonal maps should be viewed as a kind of teaching aid—easily reproduced and designed to reinforce the idea of the Earth’s sphericity and climate zones_” (cited from Wikipedia).
What would a mappa mundi of our times look like? A modern equivalent of such a map would have to focus on those spaces of our planet that we have a less vivid imagination of than the physical shape of the world that in medieval times was a much less familiar view than it is today. The following gridded population cartogram generated over the whole surface of Earth could be such a contemporary depiction of the world. It divides the world into equal spaces of population realigning the map view to show the human planet in a similar way as mappae mundi showed the world centuries ago: (click for larger version) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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GLOBAL SPACES OF FOOD PRODUCTIONFEATURED
published September 5, 2012 In the year 2000 there were approximately 15 million square km of cropland and 28 million square km of pasture which are represented in the two main maps. These are equal to 12% respectively 22% of the ice-free land surface. This is according to estimates of a study on the geographic distribution of global agricultural lands by Ramankutty et al (published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2008) who used a
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REDISCOVERING THE WORLDFEATURED
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A BRIEF LOOK AT MAP PROJECTIONSFEATURED
published August 9, 2010 Each and every map represents a distorted view of reality. Therefore, cartograms are not as unusual as they might appear at a first glance. Map projections are a central aspect of the Worldmapper project because the maps (respectively cartograms) featured in the project are basically not different from some sort of re-projection of the world, albeit in a different way than conventional projections used in cartography. Rather than trying to solve the conflicts of distortion when drawing a three dimensional surface on to a two dimensional area (be it a screen or a paper map), the worldmapper cartograms distort our image of the world on purpose and show each country in proportion to a specific topic. This is reason enough to reflect a little bit on what map projections are and in what way they create a distorted view of theworld.
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COVID-19 DEATHS IN ENGLAND AND WALES published May 13, 2020 According to the UK Office for National Statistics,
“_there were 90,232 deaths occurring in England and Wales that were registered by 18 April; 20,283 of these deaths involved the coronavirus (COVID-19)._” The followingmap plots this data
which has been made available at small area statistics on May, 1st, showing the COVID-19-related deaths as a share of all cause deaths in each area of the two nations. The left map shows a conventional map for reference, while the cartogram on the right is proportional to each areas respective population, so that more populated urban areas appear larger than sparsely populated rural areas: (click for larger version) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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WASTE AND RECYCLING IN EUROPE published March 19, 2020 The European Waste Framework Directive sets a target of 50 per cent of municipal waste to be prepared for reuse and recycling by 2020 in the European Union. With that year approaching, a look at the most recent European-wide statistics on waste generation and treatment published in 2017 shows the progress that countries have made across the continent in reaching this target. (click for larger version) Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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