Sustainable perspectives of development: integration of resilience to urban planning

Abstract

The contribution of knowledge of resilience helps to improve the preparation of society and the territories involved in the face of threats of natural origin. That is why the planned consideration of the capacity of environmental resources is essential in territorial planning, when it is complemented by the ecosystem, strategic and participatory approach to help urban-territorial development. It also makes possible better economic resources, better decision making. That is why the general objective of this article was to analyzed the contribution of resilience to territorial and urban planning in order to contribute to the understanding, improvement and assurance of approaches that help the sustainability of development and the capacity to respond to various threats that cause extreme natural phenomena both in urban areas and the rest of the territory. For this, theoretical, statistical and empirical methods were used that allowed the incorporation of resilience components as contributions to urban-territorial planning to reduce risks to extreme natural phenomena, considered as retarders of development in the territories.