In a context where the uncertainties propagation blend with the failure of approaches that are constrained to the societies development and where the interactions growth (that doesn’t always corresponds to integrations) creating constrains to the territory’s future, studies adopting the resilience paradigm earn a growing centrality. This approach brings new contributions to equate sustainable development opportunities injecting in them the importance of having in consideration the dynamic perspective, the feedback effects, the endogenous and exogenous vulnerability factors that make the territories be closer or distant from crises contexts with environmental, social, economic, political or cultural origin. This article seeks to clarify three territorial resilience approaches, furthering its adoption in territorial development studies and in the consequent planning solutions that derive from them. It is approached the territorial resilience by the resistance point of view. It is discussed the principles that put the focus on adaptability in order to, finally, undertake an approximation to the evolutionary resilience. This approach corresponds, in a certain way, to the evolution of the resilience paradigm until its appropriation by the disciplines that are concerned with the development and territorial planning. It is not correct to eliminate any of the three viewpoints. On the contrary, the deepening of that have been the object, where this contribution is placed, potentiates qualifying thinking combinations on urban and regional progress without losing consideration for uncertainties, crises, shocks and other malfunctions that, permanently, challenge them.