Resumen

Demographic Challenges for Sustainable Development. The Laxenburg Declaration on Population and Sustainable Development. Estud. demogr. urbanos [online]. 2012, vol.27, n.1, pp.227-234. ISSN 2448-6515.  https://doi.org/10.24201/edu.v27i1.1411.

Convinced by the need to integrate the three pillars of sustainable development (economic development, social development and environmental protection), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) brought together more than twenty experts on population and development to discuss how population factors promote or impede sustainable development. The meeting, supported by the United Nations Population Fund, was held at the IIASA headquarters in Vienna from 30 September to 1 October, 2011.

The panel of experts proposed five broad actions which were recommended within the framework of the Río+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Their conclusions and recommendations are given below.