From the global impact of the Coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bushfires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the Next hundred years.
Map-making is an ancient impulse.
He has delivered several TED talks and is a regular speaker at the World Economic Forum Davos summit..
He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and the BBC.
He co-founded the Igarape Institute – a leading think and do tank devoted to promoting data-driven and evidenced-based safety and justice across Latin America, Africa and Asia.
He has been a keynote speaker at successive Davos and TED events, presented the BBC Series After the Crash and The Pandemic that Changed the World, and is the author of 22 books.
Robert Muggah is a globally recognized scholar and practitioner of political economy.
Previously Ian was economic advisor to President Mandela and then Vice President and Policy Head for the World Bank.
Full of facts that will confound you, inform you, and ultimately empower you, Terra Incognita guides readers to a new place of understanding, rather than to a physical location.
Ian Goldin (Author) Ian Goldin is the Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development and the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School, a world-leading group of over 300 experts from across Oxford University tackling the most pressing challenges facing humanity.
The book traces the paths of peoples, cities, wars, climates and technologies, all on a global scale.
Based on decades of research, and combining mesmerising, state-of-the-art satellite Maps with enlightening and passionately argued analysis, Ian and Robert chart humanity\'s impact on the planet, and the ways in which we can make a real impact to save it, and to thrive as a species.
Learn about: fires in the arctic; the impact of sea level rise on cities around the world; the truth about immigration - and why fears in the West are a myth; the counter-intuitive future of population rise; the miracles of health and education that are waiting around the corner, and the reality about inequality, and how we end it.
But as Albert Einstein once said, \'you can\'t use old Maps to explore a new world.\' And now, when the world is changing faster than ever before, our old Maps are no longer fit for purpose.
Welcome to Terra Incognita.
From the moment homo sapiens learnt to communicate we have used them to make sense of our surroundings.
From the global impact of the Coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bushfires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the Next hundred years.
Map-making is an ancient impulse
