The following is an extension of research in the Division of Sustainable Development and Human Settlements on sustainable development and policy in Latin America and the Caribbean. The syndrome approach to global environmental change proposed by the German Advisory Council on Global Change was previously adapted for the examination of sustainable development in the region, and a potential regional syndrome of agriculturalization in the Argentinean Pampas was proposed and explored by regional experts from an array of disciplines. The syndrome approach is meant to facilitate a transdisciplinary …
CONTENTS I.East Africa: Region to benefit as the Nile Treaty is reviewed.II. Bathing water: European Commission starts legal action against eleven Member States.III.Mekong River Commission countries agree on procedures for Mekong flows.IV. Taos Pueblo water pact signed.V. Espoo Convention ruling on Bystroe Canal.VI. United States-Canada: Committee drafts allocation proposals for river water.VII. Israel and Turkey: Landmark water agreement put into deep freeze.VIII.Malaysia: Water to fall under World Trade Organization (WTO) regime? IX. Uruguay's President defends controversial pulp mills…
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This paper presents three demographic models useful for projections of social sector demand. The first model is a probabilistic national population forecast based on the collective experience of UN member states. It offers a set of probabilistic forecasts as a complement to the official UN scenario forecasts. The second model forecasts the population by age and educational level using data from a single census. Forecasts are presented for Chile which show dramatic changes in the educational composition of the elderly population and in the working-age population in the near future. The…
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This document aims to identify characteristics of water institutions which promote the sustainable integration of water, both as a resource and as service, into socioeconomic development. As this does not depend only on formal institutional factors, such as legislation and organizational structure, there are also references to dynamic conditions, such as socioeconomic circumstances and the quality of the administration, summarized in the concept of governance, understood as the capability of a social system to mobilize energies, in a coherent manner, for the sustainable development of…