Articles of David Alexander, Marcelo Firpo de Souza Porto, Susan L. Cutter, Alexandra Aragão, José Manuel Mendes, Alexandre Oliveira Tavares, Lúcio Cunha, Susana Freiria, Jörn Birkmann, Korinna von Teichman, Torsten Welle, Mauricio González, Maitane Olabarrieta, Eduardo Basto. The selected articles deal with the social vulnerability related with natural catastrophes, the definition of public policies of territorial planning and management; approach to issues of territorial cohesion, of the people’s recovering capacity in the presence of extreme events and “critical proposals for new instruments of empiric measurement of social vulnerability.”