The breadth and status of geography is in danger of being undermined as universities restructure their disciplines and faculties, the president of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers has warned.
Sir Ron Cooke (pictured), vice-chancellor of York University, gave the presidential address at this week's RGS-IBG annual general meeting. In it, he said geography was increasingly influencing scholarship in other disciplines while applications to study geography were falling.