Population, territory and sustainable development

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Boxes
Box IV.1 Gradient-based definitions and estimates of the rural population ....................... 29
Box IV.2 Underdevelopment of rural areas and rural-to-urban migration ......................... 34
Box IV.3 The ageing of the rural population ...................................................................... 40
Box IV.4 Agriculture in the world economy: recent trends ................................................ 52
Box IV.5 Impacts of soybean production in five countries of the region ........................... 54
Box IV.6 Labour market and rural poverty ......................................................................... 61
Box IV.7 Conditional cash transfer programmes and rural poverty ................................... 64
Box IV.8 Adolescent fertility in Latin America: an example of social
and territorial inequalities ................................................................................... 72
Box V.1 The developmentalist and geopolitical fixation with the Amazon
and current paradoxes ......................................................................................... 75
Box V.2 Latin America: population growth in low-population-density
Box VII.1
major administrative divisions, 1950-2000 ......................................................... 81
Measuring the impact of migration on the composition of
the population of the places of origin and destination ........................................ 107
Box IX.1 Mexico: a functional view of the system of cities ............................................... 142
Box X.1 Metropolitan concentration: a phenomenon that is not limited to population .... 170
Box X.2 Views on urban informality in Latin America .................................................... 181
Box XI.1 Ecuador: articles of the 2008 Constitution concerning development
and territorial rights, including the concept of “good living” ............................. 195
Box XI.2 Recent experiences with territory-based rural development policies .................. 199
Box XI.3
Box XI.4
Protecting the ecosystem and ethnicity in Amazonia: the example
of Ecuador’s basic zoning, autonomy and decentralization code ....................... 202
Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Deforestation in
the Legal Amazon region of Brazil ..................................................................... 202
Box XI.5 Focusing on the family of territorial policies ...................................................... 205
Box XI.6 Brazil’s city statute: contributions, limitations and challenges ........................... 207
Box XI.7 Initiatives for improving public transportation systems in the region ................. 209
Box XI.8 Metropolitan governments: needs, challenges and options ................................. 211
Maps
Map IV.1 Latin America and the Caribbean: intercensal rural population
growth rates, 1990-2000 ...................................................................................... 33
Map IV.2 Costa Rica: rurality gradient ............................................................................... 45
Map V.1 South America: population density by major administrative division,
1950 and 2000 ..................................................................................................... 74
Map V.2 Mesoamerica: population density by major administrative division,
1950 and 2000 ..................................................................................................... 74
Map V.3 Brazil: population growth rate at the municipal level, 2000-2010 ...................... 83
Map VII.1 Latin America and the Caribbean: infant mortality rate
by major administrative division (MAD), around 2010 ...................................... 94
Map VII.2 Latin America and the Caribbean: per capita gross domestic product
by major administrative division, around 2006 ................................................... 95
Map VII.3 Chile: classification of major administrative divisions (MADs)
by migration status, censuses of the 1990 and 2000 rounds ............................... 101
Map VII.4 Brazil: classification of major administrative divisions (MADs)
by migration status censuses of the 1990 and 2000 rounds ................................ 102