© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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. The main period of the eruption lasted from March to September 2021. A second eruption started on 3 August 2022 in Meradalir valley at the Northern end of the first eruption and lasted just over two weeks. In the most recent deve...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net The Arctic Circle Assembly is the largest annual international gathering on the Arctic, attended by more than 2000 participants from over 60 countries. The Assembly is held every October in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center, Reykjavík, Iceland. With the … Continue reading → The post Arctic Circles: Geopolitics and Climate Change in the North was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow ...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net Germans went to the polls to elect a new parliament and along with it a new government and a new chancellor. Since outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel did not stand for re-election after 16 years in office, this election marked a … Continue reading → The post Bundestagswahl 2021: Map Views of the German Federal Election was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - pub...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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 … Continue reading → The post US Presidential Election 2020 was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication...| Views of the World
According to the UK Office for National Statistics, “there were 90,232 deaths occurring in England and Wales [between 1 March and 17 April 2020] that were registered by 18 April; 20,283 of these deaths involved the coronavirus (COVID-19).” The following … Continue reading →| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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 … Continue reading → The post Re-Enlightening Views of the World was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on other websites without permission n...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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 … Continue reading → The post Waste and recycling in Europe was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on other websit...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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 … Continue reading → The post The 2019 UK General Election was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on other websites with...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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 … Continue reading → The post Smoke and mirrors: Smoking Prevalence and Tobacco Advertising Policies was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow ...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net This 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 … Continue reading → The post Inequalities of Gender: Education, work, and politics was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Fa...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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 … Continue reading → The post Bees in trouble? Honeybee Shortages in Europe was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Face...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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 … Continue reading → The post Earth Overshoot Day: Humanity’s Footprints was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - pu...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net You might have been wondering why there are so few new cartograms appearing on this blog. Just to reassure you, this blog is not dead. But I will now use it more for other things than before, such as ‘normal’ … Continue reading → The post Where have all the cartograms gone? was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on other websites without permis...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net Commentators have suggested that the Commonwealth could become more important for UK trade after Brexit. This article for Political Insight (June 2018, Volume 9, Issue 2) maps the current state of British-Commonwealth trade and finds a more mixed picture of … Continue reading → The post Trading with the Commonwealth: A future perspective for the UK? was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow ...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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 … Continue reading → The post The growth and decline of urban agglomerations in Germany was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you m...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net “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 … Continue reading → The post Fortress Europe? was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on other websites without permission not all...| Views of the World
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 … Continue reading →| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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 … Continue reading → The post The Diamond Dimensions was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication ...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net How are the EU member nations faring in the fight for gender equality? It is a complex task to measure the progress that has been made in achieving equal gender rights. The Sustainable Development Goals provide a framework for the … Continue reading → The post Gender Inequality in the European Union was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on other w...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net There are approximately 7,000 languages believed to be spoken around the world. Despite this diversity, the majority of the world’s population speaks only a fraction of these languages. The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by … Continue reading → The post Language Diversity was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publi...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net Waldo Tobler is dead. He is most remembered for his affable manner, his very kindly smile, the remarkable longevity of this academic life, his great academic achievements and – much more importantly – for being very kind, especially to strangers. … Continue reading → The post Remembering Waldo Tobler was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on o...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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 … Continue reading → The post Danger Zones: Mapping Europe’s Earthquakes was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter o...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net Mining may have been one contributing factors to why Australia as one of the few advanced economies did not go into recession following the global financial crisis 10 years ago. While mining is a profitable business in Australia, once the … Continue reading → The post The Holey Land: Abandoned Mines in Queensland / Australia was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net You may have noticed a slowdown in updates here on my website. I have been putting a lot of effort into the new Worldmapper website in recent months (check it out, it also has its own cartogram blog). Since Views … Continue reading → The post Have I got news for you was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on other websites without permission not all...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net Football is a truly global phenomenon. Statistics about the real support are problematic, but there are estimates of up to 3.5 billion fans of football globally. A study conducted in 2006 by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), which … Continue reading → The post Sports Report: The globalised world of European football was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me o...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia has not been without controversy from the very beginning, starting with corruption allegations during the selection procedure to the most recent political incidents. And yet, the ball is rolling and the sporty side … Continue reading → The post World Cup Cartograms was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on other we...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net There is a new map in town! Earlier this month during the 125th Anniversary Conference of the Geographical Association in Sheffield (UK) we relaunched the new Worldmapper.org online platform which has been several years in the making. It is not … Continue reading → The post Worldmapper: The Relaunch was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on other w...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net 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. … Continue reading → The post Higher Education Students and Graduates in Europe was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on T...| Views of the World
© www.viewsoftheworld.net The 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang have come to an end. Branded as the ‘Games of new horizons’, they were as much about politics as they were about actual sports. The following cartogram series focuses on the sports side … Continue reading → The post Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on other...| Views of the World
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%, … Continue reading →| Views of the World
