
%0 Journal Article
%A Jones, Barry 
%T CHALLENGES OF THE WORKFORCE AND TRAINING
%J The APPEA Journal
%D 2002/06/30
%V 42
%N 2
%P 25-28
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ01052
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AJ01052 
%X The future of the petroleum production and exploration industries must be examined in at least nine contexts: population, social, political, economic, environmental quality, employment and skills, physical flows, resource use and trade. Education and innovation ought to have a major impact on your industries, but universities are facing serious limitations, with a serious decline in students undertaking the enabling sciences (including geosciences), and where an increasing emphasis on the corporatisation of learning /research puts excessive emphasis on the short term.The current political climate discourages serious consideration of complex, long-term factors. Issues such as energy efficiency deserve comprehensive discussion as Australia faces the dilemma of whether to follow the United States pattern of resource use or the European. Australia&#x2019;s extraordinary tradition of urban development suggests that we will be increasingly heavy users of imported fuel. 
