Title: From the exploitation of natural resources to the utilization of human competence

Authors: Stephanie Izard

Addresses: Laboratoire de Recherche en Economie et Gestion des Organisations, Universite de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France Batiment Vauban, 78280 Guyancourt, France

Abstract: Knowledge, the forgotten factor of production, is now emerging at the centre of the resolution of the problems of depletion of natural resources. Yet the substitution of high added value energy forms for fossil fuels, while it may solve this problem, will not do so without an upheaval in the international geopolitical equilibria.

Keywords: fossil fuels; high added value; knowledge revolution; natural resources; new paradigm; nuclear energy; nuclear power; human skills.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.1995.063435

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 1995 Vol.8 No.1/2/3, pp.236-242

Published online: 14 Jul 2014 *

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