Social attention to environmental, natural and technological risks and their consequences has increased in recent decades due to the concurrence of climate change and demographic growth. Furthermore, the prevailing economic model, which accentuates social imbalances, causes migratory movements and alters the relationships between society and its environment, has substantially aggravated the effects of environmental disasters.

This book, in which vulnerability is the thematic axis, offers progress in the necessary and laborious task of standardizing terms and methods.

Works on vulnerability are compiled here in three large blocks: conceptual, methodological and applied. The authors, in many cases work teams, come from diverse disciplinary fields of natural and social sciences, so the set has a multidisciplinary and even interdisciplinary character.

The subjects covered include a wide variety of types of vulnerability (structural, social, institutional, etc.), but also the dangers that are taken as references, from volcanic to climatic, including geomorphological.

The works include abundant bibliographical references, which expand the value of the book as a starting point for future research, especially in the spatial field of Mexican territory, and as a relevant contribution to this complex, exciting and useful topic.