Aims & Scope

JGS publishes geographical research that offers a clear empirical, theoretical, methodological, planning or policy contribution.

Scope

• Human, social, cultural and economic geography
• Population, migration, mobility and settlement
• Urban, rural and regional geography
• Development, livelihoods and political geography
• Physical geography, landscapes and earth-surface processes
• Climate, hydrology, biogeography and hazards
• Human-environment relations and sustainability
• GIS, remote sensing, cartography and spatial statistics
• Land use, transport and infrastructure
• Tourism, health and environmental geography
• Geographical education and methods
• Planning, governance and place-based policy

Descriptive location reports without adequate methods, unsupported maps and promotional accounts of places or projects are outside scope.