ABSTRACT
The chapter critically analyses how vulnerabilities related to the use of water and energy (WE) resources and services in China are constitutive of and constituted by infrastructure, policy, governance and everyday practices. It explores how spatial vulnerabilities have opened up in different regions in the country particularly between the rural-urban through the example of the Heating Line that divides North-South China. We advocate in this chapter for a more critical and proficient conceptualisation of ‘vulnerability’ in the research and policy literatures on the WE Nexus in China.
