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Benjamin David Hennig - Professor

Benjamin David Hennig

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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Benjamin David Hennig

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
by appointment
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5754-2455
Research portal – Benjamin David Hennig

Published works

2026

Visual analyticsEnvironment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

2025

Playing for the Planet? A Serious Game Approach to Land Use Planning with Students in Rural IcelandSocieties
In Focus: Margins on the Rise: The 2025 German Election in MapsPolitical Insight
In Focus: Stateless and Scattered: Mapping the Palestinian DiasporaPolitical Insight
SimIceland: Towards a Spatial Microsimulation Approach for Exploring ‘Green’ Citizenship Attitudes in Island ContextsSocial Sciences

2024

Digital Walking Tours as a Tool for Assessing Place Attachment and Community Responses to Regional Environmental ChangeLand
Reykjavik in TransformationGeographische Rundschau
In Focus: Zero Action on Net Zero? UK Political Shifts on Climate CommitmentsPolitical Insight
In Focus: Labour’s 2024 Landslide: A Fragile VictoryPolitical Insight
In Focus: Mapping Disillusionment: The 2024 US Presidential ElectionPolitical Insight
In Focus: Commander-in-Tweet: A Geopolitical Analysis of Joe Biden’s Social Media ActivityPolitical Insight

2023

Geospatial technologies in hazard research and response–a case study of Paper2GIS in an international field courseJournal of Geography in Higher Education
In Focus: Happy Nations? Measuring Sustainable Wellbeing of the PlanetPolitical Insight
Displacement measurements of three slow moving landslides at Almenningar, north Iceland. A feature tracking application.
In Focus: The Business of War: Global Arms TradePolitical Insight
In Focus: Frozen Frontiers: Geopolitical Dynamics in the ArcticPolitical Insight
Remote sensing of salmonid spawning sites in freshwater ecosystemsPLoS ONE
In Focus: Is Inequality Inevitable? The ‘Northern European Model’ Suggests NotPolitical Insight

2022

Local Perspectives on Climate Change, Its Impact and AdaptationClimate
Atlas, distortion and change
In Focus: Population Eight Billion: Still a Question of Growth?Political Insight
One Year of COVID-19: Mapping the Spread of a Global Pandemic
In Focus: Moving on from Macron? The 2022 French Presidential ElectionPolitical Insight
In Focus: Vaccine Inequalities: A Selfish World in Times of CrisisPolitical Insight
In Focus: Britain’s Shrinking EmpirePolitical Insight
Rediscovering the world: New maps and visualisations of a changing planet
Insularity in a Connected World? The COVID-19 Pandemic in Iceland

2021

Spatial and temporal inequalities in mortality in the USA, 1968–2016Health and Place
Eye clinic attendance at the olympic and paralympic games Rio 2016 and its correlation to the WHO indicators on eye healthBritish Journal of Sports Medicine
In Focus: Global Britain: No Space for Foreign Aid in a Competitive Age?Political Insight
Monitoring fish spawning sites in freshwater ecosystems using low-cost UAV data: A case study of salmonids in lakes in Iceland
Creating an Atlas of the AnthropoceneAbstracts of the ICA
Cartograms
In Focus: Torn Down the Middle? German Politics after MerkelPolitical Insight
In Focus: Trump Tweets: Power and the Global Politics of Social MediaPolitical Insight
Spatial and temporal inequalities in mortality in the USA, 1968-2016Health & Place
In Focus: The Death Penalty Across the GlobePolitical 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
In Focus: Nationality, Citizenship and Refugees: A Global PerspectivePolitical Insight
A World Map of Biodynamic AgricultureAgricultural and Biological Sciences Journal
COVID-19’s Spread Across the WorldPolitical Insight
In Focus: Margins of Victory in 2019Political Insight
In Focus: How Joe Biden Won the White HousePolitical Insight
Population Density, Wealth, and Refugee Flows: New Perspectives of the Quality of Nationality Index

2019

European Parliament Elections 2019Political Insight
In Focus: Poverty in the Developing WorldPolitical Insight
Social gradient of birthweight in England assessed using the INTERGROWTH-21st gestational age-specific standardArchives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal
Remapping GeographyGeography
Social gradient of birthweight in England assessed using the INTERGROWTH-21 st gestational age-specific standardArchives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition
The social gradient of birth weight in England assessed using the INTERGROWTH-21st gestational age specific standardArchives of Disease in Childhood
Inequalities of Gender: Education, work, and politicsPolitical Insight
Assessing Refugees’ Onward Mobility with Mobile Phone Data—A Case Study of (Syrian) Refugees in Turkey
Remapping geography: using cartograms to change our view of the worldGeography
The new worlds of WorldmapperBulletin 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 GermanyEnvironment and Planning A
In Focus: The Unchanging Politics of Climate ChangePolitical Insight

2018

Waldo Tobler: Remembering a geniusThe Cartographic Journal
Maps of Organic Agriculture in AustraliaJournal of Organics
Kartogramm zur Reichstagswahl: An early electoral cartogram of GermanyBulletin of the Society of Cartographers
Introduction of RE types and their impacts on landscape
Worldmapper: rediscovering the worldTeaching Geography
In Focus Europe’s ‘Refugee Crisis’Political Insight

2017

The human atlas of Europe
Mapping geographical worlds using cartogramsBulletin of the Society of Cartographers
Atlas of Organics: Mapping organic agriculture
In Focus: Brexit and the UK General ElectionPolitical Insight
Analysing the regional geography of poverty, austerity and inequality in EuropeRegional Studies

2016

Visualising spaces of global inaccessibility
To rule the land: mapping the 2015 general electionBulletin 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
Technological and Societal Influences on GIScience
Mapping Practices in a Digital World
London and the English desert – the geography of cultural capital in the UKCultural Trends
In focus: The EU referendumPolitical Insight
Visualising spaces of global inaccessibility
Atlas of Organics: Four maps of the world of organic agricultureJournal of Organics

2015

Regions between Recentralisation and IndependencePolitical Insight
Visualizing urban and regional worldsEnvironment and Planning A
Globalisierung und Anthropozän in neuen Kartenwelten
Review of Mark Monmonier (ed.), The History of Cartography, v.6: Cartography in the Twentieth CenturyThe Globe

2014

Gridded cartograms as a method for visualising earthquake risk at the global scaleJournal of Maps
THE SOCIAL ATLAS OF EUROPE
In Focus: The Shape of the Nation's WealthiestPolitical Insight

2013

Kriege, Krisen, Konflikte...und Karten: Ein neuer Blick auf die WeltWissenschaft und Frieden
“Calling Abidjan”--Improving Population Estimations with Mobile Communication Data (IPEMCODA)
mHealth Possibilities in a Changing World. Distribution of Global Cell Phone SubscriptionsJournal of Mobile Technology in Medicine
Rediscovering the world. Map transformations of human and physical space
Applications for Gridded Cartograms
America’s debt to the world
Future people and shifting power
Computers in cartographyBulletin of the Society of Cartographers
London’s political landscapes
Book review of Ed. Michael P. Peterson, Online maps with APIs and webservicesCartographica
Mapping inequalities in LondonBulletin of the Society of Cartographers
Featured graphic. The human planetEnvironment and Planning A

2012

The happy planet indexResurgence
Reinventing the map collectionGeographical Journal
The global inverse care lawBritish Journal of Ophthalmology
Reinventing the map collection: new journeys through (un) known worlds of London and AmericaThe Geographical Journal

2011

A world map of organic agricultureEuropean Journal of Social Sciences
Rediscovering the World: Gridded Cartograms of Human and Physical Space

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

Absence

Research leave

Frá 1.7.2026 to 31.12.2026 including both days.

Keywords for Specialisation:

Geovisualisation

Spatial analysis

Virtual Reality

Data visualisation