Stosowana geografia społeczno-ekonomiczna i gospodarka przestrzenna w świetle trzeciego kryterium ewaluacji jakości działalności naukowej = Applied socio-economic geography and spatial management as seen in terms of Criterion 3 for evaluating the quality of scientific activity in Poland

Abstract

The article aims to characterise the impact of socio-economic geography and spatial management on the environment in 2017–2021. So far, this issue has not been the subject of research concerning the entities constituting this science discipline administratively separated in 2018. The analysis is based on a systematised set of detailed information regarding practical activities that have been created to evaluate the quality of the scientific activity. The method of secondary qualitative analysis, including a comparative truth table, was used. The results confirmed the important role of the discipline in promoting the social and economic environment, particularly regarding the programming of interventions about elements of territorial capital and enhancing the praxeological quality of territorially oriented policies. The dominance of the cultural, diagnostic and decision-making functions corresponded to the main advantages of applied economic geography and spatial management – the territorial sensitivity and the ability to integrate knowledge and coordinate the processes of its creation and flows. At the application level, the entities demonstrated a very wide scope and high intensity of cooperation with other disciplines, which also seems to predict well for integrating the new discipline.