Bridging waters and power: Hydrosocial territories with socio-natural resilience in China's Great Yangtze River protection programme

Global water governance has increasingly focused on resilience as a means to manage cross-scale complexity and change. In this paper, rather than proposing a rigid new framework, we integrate the concept of socio-natural resilience into the analysis of hydrosocial territories to interpret the complex governance transformations in China. Using field data from the Great Yangtze River Protection Programme (GYRPP), this study illustrates how this integrated perspective helps understand the specific