Demography's Role in Sustainable Development

Lutz, Wolfgang; Butz, William; Castro, Márcia C.; Dasgupta, Partha; Demeny, Paul; Ehrlich, Isaac; Giorguli, Silvia; Habte, Demissie; Haug, Werner; Hayes, Adrian C.; Herrmann, Michael; Jiang, Leiwen; King, David A.; Kotte, Detlef J.; Lees, Martin H.; Makinwa-Adebusoye, Paulina K.; McGranahan, Gordon; Mishra, Vinod; Montgomery, Mark R.; Riahi, Keywan; Scherbov, Sergei; Peng, Xinjun; Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

doi:10.1126/science.335.6071.918-a

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“…The Demographic Debate section concludes with an essay by Wolfgang Lutz that highlights the contributions demographers can make to research on sustainable development, especially by providing estimates and forecasts of population dynamics, which are fundamental to policy design. This essay is accompanied by a reprint of the two statements made by distinguished international scientists on the importance of placing human populations, and the composition and the distribution of these populations, at the center of sustainable development research (Lutz and Shah 2002;Lutz et al 2012). Indeed, climate change and sustainable development are closely related, as both of these socioeconomic development paths result not only in different levels of greenhouse gas emissions, but in differential adaptive capacities depending on the composition and the distribution of populations (Lutz and Striessnig 2015;KC and Lutz 2014a).…”

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“…Indeed, this approach has already been highlighted as a key to sustainable development by international experts, first in preparation for the United Nations (UN) World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 (Lutz and Shah 2002), and a decade later in preparation for the RIO+20 Earth Summit (Lutz et al 2012). These experts emphasized that vulnerability to environmental changes and the capacity to adapt to these changes vary not only between countries, regions, communities, and households; but also between family members depending on age and gender.…”

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confidence: 99%

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What can demographers contribute to the study of vulnerability?

Muttarak¹,

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Jiang³

2016

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What can demographers contribute to the study of vulnerability?

Muttarak¹,

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Jiang³

2016

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“…The focus of vulnerability has been highlighted as key in the sustainable development, both in the World Summit on Sustainable Development of the United Nations in 2002 (Lutz & Shah, 2002) and a decade later for RIO + 20 Earth Summit (Lutz et al, 2012). It results necessary to incorporate the concept of differential demographic vulnerability in the analysis of the vulnerability and the political measures aimed to reduce the vulnerability in consonance with the Sustainable Development Goal 10 about equality for everyone.…”

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Mortality Due to Meteorological Disasters in Mexico during 2000-2015

Jáuregui-Díaz¹,

Sánchez²,

Cabañas³

2019

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This document aims to examine the changes in mortality induced by several extreme weather events from 2000 to 2015 in Mexico and analyze the characteristics of the victims, as well as the demographic and geographical vulnerabilities for the development of adaptive and preventive strategies for geographies and specific population groups to minimize the effects of extreme weather. The results show that mortality from natural disasters remains unacceptably high, since most of these deaths could have been prevented. The lethality of disasters occurs not only due to exposure to a certain threat, but also due to the accumulated vulnerability of certain populations. Taking into account the results of the research, prevention programs should target men of productive ages and older adults, women in particular to girls under nine years of age and older adults, which would reduce the impact on mortality due to meteorological disasters.

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“…The demographic transition of industrialized nations leads to a declining and at the same time ageing population (Lutz et al, 2011). While the amount of young people aged 15-24 stagnates respectively declines, the amount of people aged 60 or over increases significantly (United Nations, 2010).…”

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Improving Human Cognitive Processing by Applying Accessibility Standards for Information and Communication Technology

Vaziri¹,

Ghadiri²

2013

Grand Successes and Failures in IT. Public and Private Sectors

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Abstract. This article concerns with human-computer-interaction (HCI) from a neuroscientific perspective. The motivation for this perspective is the demographic transition, which shifts population structures of industrial nations. The authors will explain consequences of the demographic transition in terms of HCI and establish a hypothesis for these research activities. To evaluate this hypothesis the authors develop an approach, which combines different disciplines. This approach examines the effects of IT-accessibility on human cognitive processing. Therefore, required methodologies and instruments will be explained, discussed and selected. Possible effects of IT-accessibility on human cognitive processing will be illustrated with an acknowledged cognition model. The result of this article will be a concept, which enables the measurement of IT-accessibility impacts on human cognitive processing.

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Demography's Role in Sustainable Development

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What can demographers contribute to the study of vulnerability?

What can demographers contribute to the study of vulnerability?

Mortality Due to Meteorological Disasters in Mexico during 2000-2015

Improving Human Cognitive Processing by Applying Accessibility Standards for Information and Communication Technology

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