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Process-dependent representations of our Planet have the power of clarifying us immediately what is going on and where it is happening. The use of cartograms instead of traditional colored maps makes evident that unevenness is the law, rather than the exception, in many important issues for humans and other species.
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Casagrandi, R. (2015). A Cartogram is Worth a Thousand Maps: The Multi-faced Image of Our Earth. In: Cocchiarella, L. (eds) The Visual Language of Technique. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05326-4_13
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