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Benjamin David Hennig - Professor
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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Benjamin David Hennig
Íslenska
Professor
Spatial Analysis & Geovisualisation Research Group (GeoVis Lab), Coordinator of the International Joint Master of Science on Islands and Sustainability
Location
Askja / N-341
Phone
5254608
Email
ben [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Website
https://geovis.hi.is
Consultation hours
Thursdays 12-13:00 Book an appointment: https://calendly.com/ben-hi/30min
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5754-2455
Research portal – Benjamin David Hennig
 
 
 
 
Courses 2024 - 2025
LAN221G - Environmental Geography
LAN021F - Individual Research Training
LAN022F - Research Internship
LAN024F - ISLANDS - Visualisation and Science Communication
LAN102G - Cartography and map design
LAN116F - Introduction to Cartography and Geovisualisation
MFR505M - Environmental planning and democratic engagement
Education
2011
,
Ph.D.
,
The University of Sheffield
,
Geography
2005
,
M.Sc.
,
University of Cologne
,
Geography
Professional Experience
2019 -
,
Professor,
University of Iceland
2016 -
,
Honorary Research Associate,
University of Oxford
2016 -
2019,
Associate Professor,
University of Iceland
2013 -
2016,
Senior Research Fellow,
University of Oxford
2013 -
2013,
Senior Research Fellow,
University of Sheffield
2011 -
2012,
Research Associate,
University of Sheffield
2008 -
2011,
PhD Researcher,
University of Sheffield
2005 -
2008,
Lecturer,
University of Cologne
Published works
2024
Reykjavik in Transformation
Geographische Rundschau
Digital Walking Tours as a Tool for Assessing Place Attachment and Community Responses to Regional Environmental Change
Land
2023
Displacement measurements of three slow moving landslides at Almenningar, north Iceland. A feature tracking application.
In Focus: Happy Nations? Measuring Sustainable Wellbeing of the Planet
Political Insight
In Focus: Is Inequality Inevitable? The ‘Northern European Model’ Suggests Not
Political Insight
In Focus: The Business of War: Global Arms Trade
Political Insight
Geospatial technologies in hazard research and response–a case study of Paper2GIS in an international field course
Journal of Geography in Higher Education
In Focus: Frozen Frontiers: Geopolitical Dynamics in the Arctic
Political Insight
Remote sensing of salmonid spawning sites in freshwater ecosystems
PLoS ONE
2022
Local Perspectives on Climate Change, Its Impact and Adaptation
Climate
Insularity in a Connected World? The COVID-19 Pandemic in Iceland
In Focus: Britain’s Shrinking Empire
Political Insight
In Focus: Moving on from Macron? The 2022 French Presidential Election
Political Insight
In Focus: Vaccine Inequalities: A Selfish World in Times of Crisis
Political Insight
Atlas, distortion and change
Rediscovering the world: New maps and visualisations of a changing planet
One Year of COVID-19: Mapping the Spread of a Global Pandemic
In Focus: Population Eight Billion: Still a Question of Growth?
Political Insight
2021
Creating an Atlas of the Anthropocene
Abstracts of the ICA
In Focus: Trump Tweets: Power and the Global Politics of Social Media
Political Insight
In Focus: Global Britain: No Space for Foreign Aid in a Competitive Age?
Political Insight
Cartograms
Monitoring fish spawning sites in freshwater ecosystems using low-cost UAV data: A case study of salmonids in lakes in Iceland
Eye clinic attendance at the olympic and paralympic games Rio 2016 and its correlation to the WHO indicators on eye health
British Journal of Sports Medicine
Spatial and temporal inequalities in mortality in the USA, 1968-2016
Health & Place
Spatial and temporal inequalities in mortality in the USA, 1968–2016
Health and Place
In Focus: Torn Down the Middle? German Politics after Merkel
Political Insight
In Focus: The Death Penalty Across the Globe
Political Insight
2020
Rudolf Steiner Education and Waldorf Schools: Centenary World Maps of the Global Diffusion of "The School of the Future"
Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Population Density, Wealth, and Refugee Flows: New Perspectives of the Quality of Nationality Index
In Focus: How Joe Biden Won the White House
Political Insight
COVID-19’s Spread Across the World
Political Insight
In Focus: Nationality, Citizenship and Refugees: A Global Perspective
Political Insight
In Focus: Margins of Victory in 2019
Political Insight
A World Map of Biodynamic Agriculture
Agricultural and Biological Sciences Journal
2019
The social gradient of birth weight in England assessed using the INTERGROWTH-21st gestational age specific standard
Archives of Disease in Childhood
The new worlds of Worldmapper
Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers
Assessing Refugees’ Onward Mobility with Mobile Phone Data—A Case Study of (Syrian) Refugees in Turkey
The growth and decline of urban agglomerations in Germany
Environment and Planning A
Remapping Geography
Geography
European Parliament Elections 2019
Political Insight
Assessing Refugees’ Onward Mobility with Mobile Phone Data—A Case Study of (Syrian) Refugees in Turkey
In Focus: The Unchanging Politics of Climate Change
Political Insight
Remapping geography: using cartograms to change our view of the world
Geography
Social gradient of birthweight in England assessed using the INTERGROWTH-21 st gestational age-specific standard
Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition
Inequalities of Gender: Education, work, and politics
Political Insight
In Focus: Poverty in the Developing World
Political Insight
Social gradient of birthweight in England assessed using the INTERGROWTH-21st gestational age-specific standard
Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal
2018
Introduction of RE types and their impacts on landscape
Kartogramm zur Reichstagswahl: An early electoral cartogram of Germany
Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers
Worldmapper: rediscovering the world
Teaching Geography
In Focus Europe’s ‘Refugee Crisis’
Political Insight
Maps of Organic Agriculture in Australia
Journal of Organics
Waldo Tobler: Remembering a genius
The Cartographic Journal
2017
The human atlas of Europe: A continent united in diversity
In Focus: Brexit and the UK General Election
Political Insight
Mapping geographical worlds using cartograms
Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers
Analysing the regional geography of poverty, austerity and inequality in Europe
Regional Studies
Atlas of Organics: Mapping organic agriculture
2016
Technological and Societal Influences on GIScience
Visualising spaces of global inaccessibility
Visualising spaces of global inaccessibility
In focus: The EU referendum
Political Insight
Mapping Practices in a Digital World
To rule the land: mapping the 2015 general election
Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers
London and the English desert - the geography of cultural capital in the UK (vol 25, pg 35, 2016)
Cultural Trends
London and the English desert – the geography of cultural capital in the UK
Cultural Trends
Atlas of Organics: Four maps of the world of organic agriculture
Journal of Organics
2015
Visualizing urban and regional worlds
Environment and Planning A
Globalisierung und Anthropozän in neuen Kartenwelten
Review of Mark Monmonier (ed.), The History of Cartography, v.6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century
The Globe
Regions between Recentralisation and Independence
Political Insight
2014
Gridded cartograms as a method for visualising earthquake risk at the global scale
Journal of Maps
In Focus: The Shape of the Nation's Wealthiest
Political Insight
The social atlas of Europe
2013
London’s political landscapes
Future people and shifting power
America’s debt to the world
Computers in cartography
Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers
Rediscovering the world. Map transformations of human and physical space
Book review of Ed. Michael P. Peterson, Online maps with APIs and webservices
Cartographica
Kriege, Krisen, Konflikte...und Karten: Ein neuer Blick auf die Welt
Wissenschaft und Frieden
Mapping inequalities in London
Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers
Applications for Gridded Cartograms
mHealth Possibilities in a Changing World. Distribution of Global Cell Phone Subscriptions
Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine
“Calling Abidjan”--Improving Population Estimations with Mobile Communication Data (IPEMCODA)
Featured graphic. The human planet
Environment and Planning A
2012
The happy planet index
Resurgence
Reinventing the map collection
Geographical Journal
Reinventing the map collection: new journeys through (un) known worlds of London and America
The Geographical Journal
The global inverse care law
British Journal of Ophthalmology
2011
Rediscovering the World: Gridded Cartograms of Human and Physical Space
A world map of organic agriculture
European Journal of Social Sciences
2009
Re-Mapping the world’s population
Re-Drawing the world: an approach towards a gridded world population cartogram
2007
Hyperspectral remote sensing and analysis of intertidal zones: a contribution to monitor coastal biodiversity
Keywords for Specialisation:
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