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Pandemic Geography
Pandemic Geography
Pandemic Geography
Geographer 8-9
Winter 2013 -14
Pandemic geography
Professor Dirk Brockmann, Humboldt University & Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin
researchers desperately try to answer globe on an effective distance scale. better understood by redrawing the
is simple in the effective
distance perspective from
the following questions: Where is the This way, one can view the world from maps of our world. London. © Dirk Brockmann,
new disease going to hit next? Where the perspective of any location using Humboldt University &
did it originate? When is it going to effective distance. Figure 1 (see page Robert Koch-Institute,
11) illustrates this view of the world Berlin, rocs.hu.berlin.de
arrive somewhere? One of the most