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Setting the framework for skills change

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“Setting the framework for skills change” considers the need for an evolving set of practical and theoretical skills amongst the workforce and the broader community in order to support an adequate response to climate change. The purposes of the document are to provide a framework for understanding and describing future curriculum needs; and to serve as an anchor for future discussion and action.

Audience: Business and Academic leadership

Rating: Non technical / Strategic viewpoint

Energy Waves

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“Energy waves” examines the technologies that have underpinned the major economic cycles of the 20th century, providing a context for the coming “Green Economy”. The purposes of the document are to provide a framework for understanding and describing future trends; and to serve as an anchor for future discussion and action.

Audience: Business and Academic leadership

Rating: Non technical / Strategic viewpoint

The energy fulcrum

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“The energy fulcrum” is an introduction to the theory of “peak oil”. Peak oil describes the facts of the decline of an oil field’s production yield, and provides a methodology for predicting the timeframe of the yield demise. The purposes of the document are to provide a framework for understanding and describing future trends; and to serve as an anchor for future discussion and action

Audience: Business leadership

Rating: Moderately technical / Strategic viewpoint