Population, territory and sustainable development
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of current trends, contexts and issues in the spheres of population, territory and sustainable development and examine their public policy implications. Three themes run through the report. The first two are laid out in the empirical chapters (III through X); the third is taken up in the closing chapter. Using the most recent data available (including censuses conducted in the 2010s), the first theme describes and tracks location and spatial mobility patterns for the population of Latin America, focusing on certain kinds of territory. The second explores the linkages between these patterns and sustainable development in different kinds of territory in Latin America and the Caribbean. The third offers considerations and policy proposals for fostering a consistent, synergistic relationship between population location and spatial mobility, on the one hand, and sustainable development, on the other, in the kinds of territory studied.
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of current trends, contexts and issues in the spheres of population, territory and sustainable development and examine their public policy implications. Three themes run through the report. The first two are laid out in the empirical chapters (III through X); the third is taken up in the closing chapter. Using the most recent data available (including censuses conducted in the 2010s), the first theme describes and tracks location and spatial mobility patterns for the population of Latin America, focusing on certain kinds of territory. The second explores the linkages between these patterns and sustainable development in different kinds of territory in Latin America and the Caribbean. The third offers considerations and policy proposals for fostering a consistent, synergistic relationship between population location and spatial mobility, on the one hand, and sustainable development, on the other, in the kinds of territory studied.
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Alicia Bárcena<br />
Executive Secretary<br />
Antonio Prado<br />
Deputy Executive Secretary<br />
Dirk Jaspers_Faijer<br />
Chief<br />
Latin American <strong>and</strong> Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE) –<br />
<strong>Population</strong> Division of ECLAC<br />
Ricardo Pérez<br />
Chief<br />
Documents <strong>and</strong> Publications Division<br />
This document was prepared under the supervision of Dirk Jaspers_Faijer, Chief of the Latin American <strong>and</strong><br />
Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE) - <strong>Population</strong> Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Caribbean (ECLAC); it was coordinated by Paulo Saad, Chief of the <strong>Population</strong> <strong>and</strong> Development Area of<br />
CELADE - <strong>Population</strong> Division of ECLAC <strong>and</strong> Jorge Rodríguez, Research Assistant from the same area. The<br />
following staff members <strong>and</strong> consultants from CELADE - <strong>Population</strong> Division of ECLAC contributed to the<br />
preparation of the document: Mario Acuña, Guiomar Bay, Sebastián Carrasco, Fabiana Del Popolo, Nicolás Diestre,<br />
Rodrigo Espina, Daniela González, Ciro Martínez, Jorge Martínez, Miguel Ojeda, Le<strong>and</strong>ro Reboiras, Magda Ruiz,<br />
Alej<strong>and</strong>ra Silva, Magdalena Soffia, Fern<strong>and</strong>a Stang <strong>and</strong> Miguel Villa. The following ECLAC staff members <strong>and</strong><br />
consultants were also involved in preparing the document: Rudolf Buitelaar, Luis Mauricio Cuervo, Luis Riffo <strong>and</strong><br />
Alicia Williner from the Latin American <strong>and</strong> Caribbean Institute for Economic <strong>and</strong> Social Planning (ILPES); Javier<br />
Meneses <strong>and</strong> Adrián Rodríguez from the Division of Production, Productivity <strong>and</strong> Management; Martín Hopenhayn,<br />
Carlos Maldonado <strong>and</strong> Daniela Trucco from the Social Development Division; Ricardo Jordán <strong>and</strong> Raquel<br />
Szalachman from the Sustainable Development <strong>and</strong> Human Settlements Division; <strong>and</strong> Juan Carlos Ramírez from the<br />
ECLAC office in Bogota. Input was also received from Martine Dirven, former Chief of the Agricultural<br />
Development Unit of the Division of Production, Productivity <strong>and</strong> Management. The authors are grateful for the<br />
support received from the United Nations <strong>Population</strong> Fund (UNFPA).<br />
Distr.: Limited • LC/L.3474(CEP.2/3) • June 2012 • Original: Spanish • 2012-97<br />
© United Nations • Printed in Santiago, Chile
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