PERSPECTIVE—USE IT OR LOSE IT [1]

International location and trade have been transformed by multinational corporate development. Governmental activities have been affected strongly. Yet governments tend to remain reactors rather than actors. They need new tools, conceptual and otherwise, to do their jobs effectively. Geographic researchers can help provide such tools through emphssizing public policy considerations. Canadian geographers have shown the way. If you find that conforming to the socially prescribed role of “objective scientist'’precludes public policy research, try simple courage.