South West Regional Skills Enterprise and Employment Analysis 2007/2008
Final Report
4.7 Skills for Sustainability
Concerns about sustainable growth and the environment are presently centre stage. A raft of recent government-sponsored reviews have highlighted these issues further and have very clear implications for skills and employment, including:
- The potential for the creation of new jobs and enterprises as a result of the focus on new environmental technologies;
- Skills need to be developed now to take advantage of these opportunities;
- Skills are needed to ensure that issues of sustainable development are understood and that decision-making is improved;
- There are presently skills gaps in terms of the wider sustainability agenda which will need to be resolved.
In this section, we briefly review some of the latest developments and draw out the implications for skills and employment.
4.7.2 Eddington Review of Transport
4.7.3 Barker Report on Housing
4.7.5 Skills for Sustainable Communities
