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UN DESA Policy Brief No. 192: Expanding footprints, growing challenges: built-up areas are outpacing population growth worldwide
This brief draws on these data to document the divergence between built-up area expansion and population growth at the global level and across country income groups, to examine trends in agricultural land that help explain what is driving rural built-up area expansion, and to set out the implications for policy.
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 167: Leveraging population trends for a more sustainable and inclusive future: Insights from World Population Prospects 2024
Understanding how population trends are likely to unfold in the short, medium and long terms is critical for achieving a more inclusive, prosperous and sustainable future. This policy brief provides an overview of some of the main findings of the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results with the aim of helping countries prepare for population sizes, age structures and spatial distributions that may differ appreciably from those of their recent past.
UN/DESA Policy Brief #109: Accelerate action to revamp production and consumption patterns: the circular economy, cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy
Achieving sustainable development requires determined actions to revamp production and consumption patterns, creating a resource-efficient and resilient post-pandemic recovery.