1st Edition

Irrigation And Agricultural Politics In South Korea

By Robert Wade Copyright 1982
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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.

    Biography

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