Such a condition is determined by the extent to which each social system is able to organize itself and increase its ability to learn and adapt to new conditions, including the capacity to recover after a disaster event.The pressure exerted by sociocultural, demographic, economic and environmental forces in urban and suburban territories especially within the Latin American context is at the basis of this conceptual shift from sustainability to resilience.
El nivel de presión al cual se encuentran sometidos hoy los territorios urbanos y periurbanos - especialmente en nuestro contexto latinoamericano - debido a factores socioculturales, demográficos, económicos y ambientales, argumenta este cambio de énfasis conceptual desde la noción de sustentabilidad, hacia el de resiliencia.