The new 29th report by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution explores the environmental challenges faced by the UK as a result of demographic change. The cover of the report features my population cartogram of the United Kingdom surrounded by the commissions royal blue (see larger image of the cover map here). The report also happens to be the last work of this Royal Commission, which together with several other Defra bodies will be abolished later this year in its 31st year of existence.
Yesterday’s (16/02) official launch of this report in London was accompanied by a vigorous debate about the key findings, with much of the discussion being closely related to the demographic trends in the United Kingdom and which implications these have. Continue reading
Category Archives: publications
In Focus: Government Debt
A map showing the Europe’s government debt is now featured in the “In Focus” section of Political Insight journal (December 2010, Volume 1, Issue 3). The accompanying article written by Danny Dorling and me explains why the UK’s deficit is particularly high.
Here are the bibliographic details:
- Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. D. (2010). In Focus: Government Debt. Political Insight1 (3): 106.
Article online (Wiley)
More debt maps can be found here.
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In Focus: The General Election 2010
A map showing the detailed results of this year’s General Election in Great Britain is now featured in the “In Focus” section of Political Insight journal (September 2010, Volume 1, Issue 2). The accompanying article written by Danny Dorling and me includes a brief analysis of the swings in the new Parliament at Westminster.
Here are the bibliographic details:
- Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. D. (2010). In Focus: General Election 2010. Political Insight1 (2): 72.
Article online (Wiley)
More election maps can be found here.
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Angles, Saxons, Inequality, and Educational Mobility in England and Germany
Good politics has always seen well-funded, public provision of education as a vital pathway to delivering the Good Society. This article draws on recent evidence from Germany and the UK to show that even in more equal societies, such as Germany, attention still needs to be paid by progressive politicians to education – in particular, the importance of non-elitist, comprehensive education systems for all, regardless of means.
Educational systems in England and Germany affect social inequalities in different ways. Social inequalities are narrower in Germany, but not thanks to German education systems. The English education system is highly discriminatory too, but it would be a mistake to believe that the German model is much better.
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Article as PDF ; Article online
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ArcUser article: Re-Mapping the World’s Population
My contribution to the ESRI UC 2009 found its way into the Winter 2010 edition of ArcUser:
Article as PDF ; Article onlineThe slideshow from last year’s talk at the ESRI UC Is now also available online to watch on Slideshare:
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Re-Mapping the World’s Population
“Re-Mapping the World’s Population” – Presentation at the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, 13-17 July 2009
Abstract:
The Worldmapper project has successfully produced a series of maps to visualize data, concerning a range of issues facing the modern world, based upon the idea of density-equalising maps. The Cartogram Geoprocessing Tool incorporating this density-equalising method has also recently been made available for ArcGIS. This presentation introduces and evaluates further new mapping approaches that move depictions beyond their simple descriptive form. It gives an insight into these new developments, focusing on sub-national level data which has until now been neglected. The world population cartogram demonstrates the first attempt to include sub-national density data. Within this approach, ArcGIS 9.3 plays a crucial role as an interface to convert suitable raster datasets and to produce updated cartograms. The data is converted using ArcMap’s Toolbox, while the Cartograms, due to their large size were, calculated in a Unix environment. The final visualization has been conducted in ArcMap.
(published 2009 in the ESRI User Conference Proceedings)
These are the slides from my talk:
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