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Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division |
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Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division |
| Population, Environment and Development: Proceedings of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Population, Environment and Development, New York City, 20-24 January 1992 |
Available in English only.
Contains the report and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting and the papers submitted to it. The Expert Group, which was one of the six convened as part of the substantive preparations for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, appraised current trends in population and environment, focusing on their implications for sustainable development. The discussions concentrated on those areas where population growth and distribution have adverse impacts on the availability and use of key natural resources, such as freshwater, soils and forests, and on interactions of demographic factors, consumption and production patterns and global issues of increasing international concern, such as climate change and loss of biological diversity.
| Ageing and the Family: Proceedings of the United Nations International Conference on Ageing Populations in the Context of the Family, Kitakyushu (Japan), 15-19 October 1990 |
Contains the reports and recommendations of the conference and a selection of the papers that were discussed. Also included is the Kitakyushu City Declaration on Population Ageing in the context of the Family, which was adopted on 19 October 1990, affirming that an important objective of socio-economic development is an age-integrated society where bonds of kinship and linkages between generations are strengthened. The Conference discussed such demographic issues as changes in marital status, patterns of migration and household structure; social and economic issues (e.g., the changing status and roles of the elderly, evolving family structures and inter-family transfers of assets); issues pertaining to family support (e.g., the respective roles to be played by the family and the public sector, especially regarding public support for family caregivers and the implications of the changing status and roles of women; and, finally, such housing-related issues as the effect of ageing families on housing conditions and policies and programmes to promote family care.
| Internal Migration of Women in Developing Countries: Proceedings of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on the Feminization of Internal Migration |
Available in English only
Contains the report and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting and the papers submitted to it. The purposes of the Meeting were to elucidate in which circumstances migration leads to improvements of the status of women and to formulate policy guidelines on women's issues in relation to migration.
| Population Policies and Programmes: Proceedings of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Population Policies and Programmes, Cairo, Egypt, 12-16 April 1992 |
Available in English only.
Contains the report and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting and the papers submitted to it. The Meeting, which was one of the six convened as part of the substantive preparations for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, examined the policy implications to be derived from the current state of knowledge concerning the complex interrelationships between population policies and programmes, patterns of development and the mobilization of resources at the national and international levels.
| Consequences of Rapid Population Growth in Developing Countries |
Available in English and French; the French version was published by INED (price: 150 French francs).
Contains the proceedings of and selected papers presented at the United Nations/Institut national d'etudes démographiques (INED) Expert Group Meeting on Consequences of Rapid Population Growth, held in New York from 23 to 26 August 1988.
| Ageing and Urbanization: Proceedings of the United Nations International Conference on Ageing Populations in the Context of Urbanization, Sendai (Japan), 12-16 September 1988 |
Available in English only.
Presents the report and recommendations of the Conference, which reviewed the issues associated with changing age structure from the point of view of cities and other urban structures, as well as a selection of the discussion papers. The volume also contains the Sendai Declaration of Aging Populations in the Context of Urbanization, which was adopted on 15 September 1988, Japan's Day of Respect for the Elderly, and which reaffirmed that an age integrated society, with true solidarity among the generations, must be an important objective of socio-economic development.
| International Transmission of Population Policy Experience |
Available in English only
Contains the report and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on the International Transmission of Population Policy Experience, held in New York from 27 to 30 June 1988 under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). The Meeting was convened to survey and assess critically the existing state of activities, primarily but not exclusively conducted by international agencies that monitor population policies in individual countries and that seek to provide information on such policies in a comparative framework. Primary areas of concern included the collection of population policy data, the classification or taxonomy to be used to deal with this information, the comparative analyses of those data and the transmission of the results and conclusions of those analyses. Building on such an assessment, the Meeting developed specific recommendations directed to increasing the efficiency and timeliness with which international population policy data are collected, analysed and transmitted to interested Governments, researchers and the general public.
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International Conferences, Expert Group Meetings Seminars and Workshops |
