we do not intend to argue for a purely geocentric view of the world's problem. at a time when the walls between academic subjects are crumbling, the isolationist subject makes about as little sense as an isolationist nation-state. geography has always been heavily dependent on its academic neighbors such as mathematics, the earth sciences, and the behavioral science, and it has everything to gain by remaining so.
geography commands interest today not because of its past solutions but because of its potential contribution to resolving future difficulties. geographers. as a group are a little embarrassed to discover that questions such as optimal location or environmental quality, so long a part of their classroom seminars, are now the daily stuff of the news media, the senate committee, and the campus. for over 2000 years