Spatial Resilience and Climate Change. Methodological, Technical and Metric Contributions

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.14280

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Published: Feb 16, 2026
Issue: No. 54 (2026): Numero 54
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Keywords: Spatial resilience climate change frameworks scientific literature

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  Ricardo Castro-Díaz
Profesor
Daniel Rozas
Universidad Católica de Temuco, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Laboratorio de Planificación Territorial.
  Anderson Vieira
Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Brasil); Universidade Nacional da Colômbia - Sede Medellín

Abstract

The article presents a conceptual analysis of spatial resilience to climate change. It begins with a theoretical contextualization of spatial resilience and a literature search on the subject, identifying twelve conceptual articles. An empirical classification of these articles is generated in three categories: objective, result and approach. The results show that spatial studies are oriented to quantitative assessment, socio-ecological studies to theoretical frameworks and modeling studies to various purposes. The contributions of conceptual frameworks on the integration of disciplines, the use of quantitative tools and spatial models to measure resilience, and theoretical constructs such as adaptation, uncertainty, thresholds, climate scenarios, among other related concepts, are discussed. It is concluded that spatial resilience is a key concept in the face of climate change, with multiple theoretical and practical perspectives that require interdisciplinary integration between natural and social sciences.

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Castro-Díaz, R., Rozas, D., & Vieira, A. (2026). Spatial Resilience and Climate Change. Methodological, Technical and Metric Contributions. Territorios, (54). https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.14280
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