Aims and Scope

Territory, Space and Geographical Inquiry is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the publication of original research, theoretical contributions, empirical studies, comparative analyses, field-based investigations, spatial analyses, methodological contributions, and critical reviews in the broad fields of geography, territorial studies, spatial planning, human-environment relations, regional development, and geospatial sciences.

The journal aims to provide an international scholarly platform for geographers, spatial planners, territorial-development researchers, environmental scientists, urban and regional specialists, demographers, economists, sociologists, political scientists, GIS specialists, and other researchers interested in the organization, transformation, governance, and representation of geographical space.

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary research connecting geography with economics, sociology, environmental science, political science, urban planning, demography, history, development studies, public policy, tourism, transportation, technology, and data science, provided that territory, space, geographical processes, or spatial analysis remains central to the manuscript.

The journal’s scope includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

  • Human Geography: spatial organization of societies, population distribution, human mobility, settlement patterns, social relations, and interactions between people and places.
  • Physical Geography: landforms, climate, hydrology, soils, vegetation, ecosystems, geomorphological processes, and interactions among natural components of geographical space.
  • Economic Geography: spatial distribution of economic activities, industry, services, trade, investment, labor markets, production networks, and territorial economic disparities.
  • Social Geography: spatial dimensions of inequality, poverty, exclusion, housing, access to services, social segregation, and relationships between social groups and territory.
  • Cultural Geography: place, identity, landscape, memory, heritage, language, cultural practices, representations, and symbolic dimensions of geographical space.
  • Political Geography: states, territories, borders, sovereignty, electoral geography, territorial conflicts, administrative divisions, and spatial dimensions of political power.
  • Geopolitics: strategic territories, borders, resources, maritime spaces, geopolitical competition, territorial claims, and relationships between geography and international power.
  • Population Geography: population distribution, density, fertility, mortality, ageing, demographic transition, mobility, and spatial dimensions of population change.
  • Migration Geography: internal and international migration, displacement, mobility networks, diasporas, migration corridors, border regions, and territorial consequences of population movements.
  • Geography of Education: spatial distribution of educational institutions, accessibility, educational inequalities, student mobility, and territorial dimensions of educational provision.
  • Environmental Geography: environmental change, ecosystems, human pressures, pollution, land degradation, resource management, and relationships between societies and environments.
  • Climate Geography: climatic patterns, variability, extreme events, regional climate processes, urban climates, and spatial analysis of climatic conditions.
  • Climate Change: spatial impacts of climate change, vulnerability, adaptation, mitigation, resilience, climate migration, and territorial consequences of environmental transformation.

The journal also welcomes emerging and innovative research addressing new spatial configurations, territorial inequalities, environmental change, technological transformation, climate pressures, urban and rural restructuring, mobility, geospatial technologies, and other processes reshaping geographical space.