Caught in between Decentralization and (Re)Centralization: Environmental Disaster Management in South Korea from a Multilevel Perspective

• Main Authors: BAE, Yooil, JOO, Yu Min, WON, Soh-Yeon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1656
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The twenty years experience of decentralization and local democracy in South Korea has brought about many changes in its central-local relations. Yet, the case of environmental disaster management has produced more or less ambiguous outcomes. While local governments have been quite successful in the...