Population sustainability is a prevalent yet nebulous concept within academic and policy debates surrounding the nature and consequences of demographic and economic change. This research seeks to add nuance to understandings of population sustainability in ageing societies. The fiscal challenges posed by population ageing mean that more and more states are implementing specific policies in response to it, with limited degrees of success thus far. This investigation examines place-based understandings of population sustainability on the part of local stakeholders in a region of Scotland, a country facing significant demographic challenges and which is enacting policy measures specifically aimed at promoting population sustainability. The findings suggest that the on-the-ground realities of population sustainability are nuanced and complex. As such, there is scope for greater attention to the diversity and complexities of population and economic change at the sub-national scale in broader academic conceptualisations of and policy responses to the increasingly pressing issue of population sustainability.

在围绕人口和经济变化的性质和后果的学术和政策辩论中，人口可持续性是一个普遍但模糊的概念。这项研究旨在增加对老龄化社会人口可持续性的理解的细微差别。人口老龄化带来的财政挑战意味着越来越多的州正在实施具体政策来应对，但迄今为止取得的成功程度有限。这项调查考察了苏格兰地区当地利益相关者对人口可持续性的基于地方的理解，苏格兰地区面临着重大的人口挑战，并且正在制定专门旨在促进人口可持续性的政策措施。研究结果表明，人口可持续性的实地现实是微妙而复杂的。像这样，