COVID-19, the Russo-Ukrainian War, the global sustainable development project and post-crises demography

Q3 Social Sciences

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research Pub Date : 2022-03-16 DOI:10.1553/populationyearbook2022.per02

F. Mackellar

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Abstract

The global sustainable development project as currently conceived is foundering, and the twin crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian War have driven a stake through its heart. Some of the reasons for this failure are fundamental design flaws, while others are practical. The resources to bring the project – or its successor, and any other global sustainable development project of similar design and ambition that might emerge – to a successful conclusion do not exist, and never did. What lessons are we learning, and how can they inform post-2030 sustainable development goals? In this essay, the effects of the catastrophes of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global sustainable development project are enumerated, SDG by SDG, with special attention being paid to the implications for demography. In closing, recommendations for reforms of the project are presented, as are some suggestions for the field of demography in the changed global context. The most concrete, feasible immediate recommendations are to make up recently lost ground, specifically in the areas of vaccination and education; and to reform the profoundly flawed international asylum and refugee system.

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新冠肺炎、俄乌战争、全球可持续发展项目和危机后人口学

目前构想的全球可持续发展项目正在搁浅，2019冠状病毒病大流行和俄乌战争这两大危机已经刺穿了项目的心脏。这种失败的一些原因是根本的设计缺陷，而另一些则是实际原因。使该项目——或其后续项目，以及可能出现的任何其他具有类似设计和雄心的全球可持续发展项目——取得成功的资源并不存在，而且从未存在过。我们从中吸取了哪些教训?这些教训如何为2030年后可持续发展目标提供参考?在本文中，列举了2019冠状病毒病大流行和俄罗斯入侵乌克兰的灾难对全球可持续发展项目的影响，每个可持续发展目标，特别关注对人口的影响。最后，提出了改革该项目的建议，以及在变化的全球背景下对人口领域提出的一些建议。最具体和可行的立即建议是弥补最近失去的阵地，特别是在疫苗接种和教育领域;改革存在严重缺陷的国际庇护和难民制度。

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research Social Sciences-Demography

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期刊介绍： In Europe there is currently an increasing public awareness of the importance that demographic trends have in reshaping our societies. Concerns about possible negative consequences of population aging seem to be the major force behind this new interest in demographic research. Demographers have been pointing out the fundamental change in the age composition of European populations and its potentially serious implications for social security schemes for more than two decades but it is only now that the expected retirement of the baby boom generation has come close enough in time to appear on the radar screen of social security planners and political decision makers to be considered a real challenge and not just an academic exercise.