THE HUMAN SHAPE OF THE WORLD ATLAS
Book ID/图书代码： 11197510B42409
English Summary/英文概要： The creators of worldmapper (www.worldmapper.org) have combined new software with an analysis of population distribution to show our planet as you’ve never seen it before – shaped, both metaphorically and literally, by the distribution of its people.
Danny Dorling and Benjamin Hennig, authors of the bestselling Atlas of the Real World (winner of the Geographical Association Gold Award 2009), have created a unique series of world, regional, and country maps that are shaped not by geographical landmass but by their populations and where these people are living.
Extraordinary and unique shapes in themselves, these groundbreaking maps provide the key to showing and understanding how people have had the greatest impact of any life form on the planet, literally shaping it to suit their purpose. With additional data sets on key environmental topics (such as water resources, electricity use, urbanization, car ownership, and carbon emissions), we see at once where and how population density impacts on the environment – and where it doesn’t. The result is both a revealing commentary on our environmental footprint and a completely new world view where cartography imitates life: countries take on sometimes grotesque and always intriguing shapes, with sparsely populated areas sliding into the chasms between megacities whilst spacious tracts of unpopulated lands are reduced to whiskers on the face of the human landscape.
The atlas is divided into four key parts. Part One introduces the cartographic concept with a series of world maps shaped by different demographic indicators, such as the growing world population, its ageing nature, and the inequalities of life expectancy. Part Two shows where we are now: the ‘people-shaped’ world overlaid with a range of indicators relating to our impact on the environment. In Part Three, the authors take us on a journey, continent by continent, around the individual people-shaped countries, describing the historical and political influences behind the patterns of population distribution in each. Additional graphics give each country’s vital statistics – its population, its level of human development as indicated by its HDI score, and the overall impact its people have on the land they inhabit. Part Four shows what the future holds for the planet in a series of population forecasts.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 世界绘图者 (www.worldmapper.org) 的创始人与一种新兴软件相联合，能够对人口分配作出分析，为我们展示了一个前所未见的地球——带有一些比喻和夸张意味地说，是通过人口分配重塑地球。 Danny Dorling与Benjamin Hennig，畅销书《真实世界的地图集》（2009年地理学会金奖获得者）一书的作者，他们创造出了一个独特的世界，区域和城市地图系列，不是以地理陆地为主，而是以人口以及人群居住地为主。在自己的非凡和独特的形状，他们的独特之处在于，这些创新的地，展示，并让我们理解了人类是如何对这个星球的所有生命产生影响的，并从字面上将它塑造成为适应他们目的的地图。配合关键环境主题中的其它数据（如水资源，用电量，城市化，拥有汽车量，碳排放量），我们就立刻可以看到人口密度对坏境哪里的影响大，哪里不受影响。这个结果对我们的环境足迹方面起到了启迪作用，制图贴近生活也带来了一种新的世界观：国家常采用一种奇怪有趣的形态，人烟稀少的地区在巨型城市中呈现鸿沟的形式，而宽敞，无人居住的土地则变成了人脸孔上胡须的样子。该图集共分为四个主要部分。第一部分介绍了一系列地图的制图观点，主要取决于人口指标，例如不断增长的世界人口，老龄化的自然以及预期生活的不平衡。第二部分表明了我们现在的状况：拥有各种类型人群的世界与影响自然环境的指示者们重叠。在第三部分中，作者将我们带入了一场旅程中，一个大陆接着一个大陆，以及周围拥有特殊人种的国家，每一种人口分布格局之后对历史和政治影响进行了描述。额外的图表显示了每个国家的统计数据 -——人口，HDI分数显示的人类发展水平，对人们居住土地的影响。第四部分展示了未来一系列人口预测对地球的影响。(兼职翻译-PXD)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 作者将为出版商的网站建立一个宣传动画，演示一个地形方面的地图转变成人口统计地图的过程。 Danny Dorling，英国谢菲尔德大学的人文地理学教授，知名网站worldmapper.org背后的团队人员，这个网站形成了一个庞大的全球媒体库。《真实世界的地图集》一书的合著者，2008年由英国和美国的泰晤士&赫德森出版精装版本，以及多种语言的国际版，他通过英国地理信息系统研究和加州大学圣地亚哥分校国际ESRI公司提出了这一创新性的人口地图绘制方法。
Benjamin Hennig，程序员，地理学家，制图员，他对世界资源的产生，流动和分配有一定的研究 -，同时通过尖端的地理信息系统和先进的软件分析，展示了如何利用新的可视化技术改善这些条件。他的地图博客是所有制图员，地理学家，或在英工作的人口统计学者们热烈追捧的对象。
The authors will develop for publishers’ websites a promotional animation showing the stages of transformation of a topographical map into a population cartogram.
Danny Dorling is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield and one of the team behind the renowned website worldmapper.org which created a huge media interest worldwide. Co-author of The Atlas of the Real World, published in hardback editions in the UK and US by Thames & Hudson in 2008, and in international editions in several languages, he has presented this innovative method for population mapping at GIS Research UK and at the International ESRI UC in San Diego, CA.
Benjamin Hennig is a programmer, geographer, and cartographer whose research into how world resources, flows, and shares are understood – and how new visualization techniques can improve on these – is at the cutting edge of GIS and advanced software analysis. His mapping blog is one of the most avidly followed of any cartographer, geographer, or demographer working in the UK.
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