Danny Dorling

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Danny Dorling (2014)

Daniel "Danny" Dorling (born January 16, 1968 in Oxford ) is a British social geographer and cartographer .

Life

Danny Dorling attended a comprehensive school in Oxford . He studied geography, mathematics and statistics at the University of Newcastle (BA 1989), received his doctorate in 1991 with a dissertation on the visualization of space with Stan Openshaw and subsequently received a scholarship. In 1996 he moved to the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol and in 2000 was appointed Professor of Quantitative Human Geography at the University of Leeds . From 2003 to 2013 he was Professor of Human Geography at Sheffield University . Since 2013 he has been Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment at St Peter's College , Oxford.

Dorling's work deals with housing, health, employment, education and poverty. In his academic work he repeatedly points out the social and regional divisions in English society. He published a large number of books and articles on these topics, either alone or as a group of authors. He is Honorary Chairman of the Society of Cartographers .

Dorling takes an active part in the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis ; he signed in October 2018 an open letter to the British government a failure in climate protection is accused of the Extinction rebellion , too civil disobedience calling on the climate issue grassroots movement, is supported and a decarbonisation of the economy is required. He is also a co-signer of an open letter published in December 2018 accusing politicians of failing to address the crisis, calling on people to join movements like Extinction Rebellion and calling on people to stop consuming.

Fonts (selection)

  • New Social Atlas of Britain . London: John Wiley, 1995
  • Daniel Dorling; Mark Newman ; Anna Barford: The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the way we live . London: Thames and Hudson, 2008, 2010
    • Real World Atlas: you've never seen Earth like this before . Translation by Susan Haynes-Huber and others. Darmstadt: Primus, 2010 ISBN 978-3-89678-708-8
  • Injustice: Why social inequality persists . Bristol: Policy Press, 2010, 2015
  • Population 10 Billion: The Coming Demographic Crisis and How to Survive It . London: Constable, 2013
  • with David Fairbairn: Mapping: ways of representing the world . London: Routledge, 2015
  • with D. Ballas, B. Hennig: The Human Atlas of Europe: A continent united in diversity . Bristol: Policy Press, 2017
  • The Equality Effect: Improving life for everyone . Oxford: New Internationalist, 2017
  • with Sally Tomlinson: Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire . London: Biteback, 2019

literature

  • Clive Cookson: Crowded Planet . Review. In: Financial Times , July 13, 2013, p. L&A 11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alison Green et al. a. (2018). Facts about our ecological crisis are incontrovertible. We must take action. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/26/facts-about-our-ecological-crisis-are-incontrovertible-we-must-take-action
  2. ↑ Act now to prevent an environmental catastrophe. The Guardian, December 9, 2018, accessed January 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dorling, Danny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dorling, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British human geographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford