Urbanization, vulnerability, resilience: conceptual relations and understanding of cause and effect

Abstract

This article permeates the discussions inherent to urban constructions in one of its most comprehensive ways called urban expansion, a phenomenon that is inserted within the field of urbanization and has caused transformations in urban space. These transformations surround the social and economic problems leading to disruption to the natural environment, thus formulating a history of social and environmental vulnerabilities to the urban environment. Given this context, this work proposes cause and effect study of the relationships between urbanization, vulnerability and resilience based on the understanding of social and environmental risks resulting from the intensification of the urban expansion process. It is possible, through theoretical-conceptual support, to know the capacities of answers and conflicts for urban spaces. It is defined methodologically as a theoretical essay supported by the theoretical constructions of some authors, among them – Holling, Adger. These pervade their theoretical discussions about urbanism, vulnerability, and resilience. As a result, it is necessary to apply these concepts to practice, that is, to empirically infer the relation of these concepts to the local reality of each urban space, each of these places imbricated by their own identity realities, territorializing such spaces and establishing realities whether or not they are urban, vulnerable and resilient.

Keywords:
Urbanization; Socioenvironmental vulnerability; Resilience; Sceneries; Analysis