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    The Role of Demography in the Transition to Sustainable Societies

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    Currently, although the global population has surpassed 7.5 billion and continues to increase in about 80 million each year, attention to demography is almost absent in most of the studies and publications related to the current situation of planetary emergency and the necessary transition to sustainable societies. For this reason, our first aim in this paper has been to discuss if this current lack of attention to demography is justified or not. With this purpose, we begin considering the scientific meaning of Sustainability, in order to overlay distorted and impoverish views of this concept that may hinder our study. Then, we analyse the reasons given by experts for and against the incidence of demographic growth in the current unsustainable situation of planetary emergency. Finally, we present proposals to face the ensemble of interconnected socio-environmental problems (including demographic evolution), to make possible an appropriate transition to sustainable societies. Aunque la poblaci贸n mundial ha sobrepasado los 7500 millones y contin煤a aumentando anualmente en alrededor de 80 millones, la atenci贸n a la demograf铆a est谩 hoy pr谩cticamente ausente en la mayor铆a de los estudios y publicaciones acerca de la actual situaci贸n de emergencia planetaria y la necesidad de una transici贸n a sociedades sostenibles. Con el prop贸sito de analizar si esta falta de atenci贸n a la demograf铆a est谩 o no justificada, en esta contribuci贸n comenzamos discutiendo el significado cient铆fico de Sostenibilidad socioambiental, para evitar concepciones distorsionadas y empobrecidas de este concepto que pueden dificultar dicho an谩lisis. A continuaci贸n estudiaremos las razones dadas por distintos expertos a favor y en contra de la incidencia del crecimiento demogr谩fico en la insostenible situaci贸n actual de emergencia planetaria. Finalmente presentamos propuestas para hacer frente al conjunto de problemas estrechamente interconectados - incluido el problema demogr谩fico - que caracterizan dicha situaci贸n, para hacer as铆 posible una adecuada transici贸n a sociedades sostenibles

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