The Population of the UK

Name: The Population of the UK
Brand: Sage Publications Ltd
SKU: 9781446252970
Price: 50.39 EUR
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English

By (author): Danny Dorling

Did you know that where you were born may affect when you die?

The Population of the UK explains how geography - in the widest sense - makes a difference to life outcomes. It explains the geographical differences in key socio-economic variables - like education, health, and work - that illustrate the UKs stark social inequalities and affect everyones lives.

Written for undergraduate students across social science disciplines, this unique text presents a social geography of the UK which:

Contains over 100 maps. These are drawn in proportion to the numbers of people being depicted and so represent the human geography of the UK in a fair way.
Visualises quantitative evidence. The very latest statistics from numerous sources - including the 2010 election - reveal the many aspects of the underlying geographical structure of society in the UK.
Relates geographies of identity to geographies of inequality, mortality, work, and settlement, and in a final chapter shows how the UKs population fits in to the world picture of who has most of what, and where.

Using the most advanced cartographic techniques of social mapping employed anywhere in the world, The Population of the UK explains the nuts and bolts of UK population in comparative context.

A note on data: Much of the data comes from 2010 and 2011. However, because as yet only the age and sex data from the 2011 census has been released the book shows 2001 patterns where only census data can reveal it. As 2011 census data is released, Danny plans to update the maps on-line.

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Weight: 450g
Dimensions: 170 x 242mm
Publication Date: 12 Nov 2012
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781446252970

About Danny Dorling

Danny Dorling joined the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford in September 2013 to take up the Halford Mackinder Professorship in Geography. He was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has also worked in Newcastle Bristol Leeds and New Zealand went to university in Newcastle upon Tyne and to school in Oxford. Much of Dannys work is available open access (see www.dannydorling.org). With a group of colleagues he helped create the website www.worldmapper.org which shows who has most and least in the world. His work concerns issues of housing health employment education wealth and poverty. His recent books include co-authored texts The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the way we live and Bankrupt Britain: An atlas of social change. Recent sole authored books include So you think you know about Britain and Fair Play both in 2011; in 2012 The No-nonsense Guide to Equality The Visualization of Social Spatial Structure and The Population of the UK; Unequal Health The 32 Stops and Population Ten Billion in 2013; All That is Solid in 2014; and Injustice: Why social inequalities persist revised in 2015.Before a career in academia Danny was employed as a play-worker in childrens play-schemes and in pre-school education where the underlying rationale was that playing is learning for living. He tries not to forget this. He is an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers and a patron of Roadpeace the national charity for road crash victims.