Irrigation and Agricultural Politics in South Korea

ISBN-13: 9780367018887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 192 str.

Robert Wade

Opis

This book examines how state and local institutions that manage water conveyance and drainage actually function. Thus a great deal is revealed about the relationships and power struggles that exist between government and the people and between central and local authorities.

Spis treści

1 State control and irrigation; 2 South Korean agriculture, administration and irrigation; 3 SY (a pseudonym) Farmland Improvement Association; 4 The organization of main functions; 5 The farmers and the system; 6 SY FLIA as government bureaucracy and social group: 7 Irrigation reform and the comparative study of irrigation organization; 8 State control and interpretations of South Korean development.

O autorze

Robert Wade Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, Sussex, UK.