Decentralization and collaborative disaster governance

• Main Authors: BAE, Yooil, JOO, Yu-Min, WON, Soh-Yeon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Decentralization; Disaster; Governance; Collaboration; South Korea; Asian Studies; Political Science; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1850; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3107/viewcontent/decentralization_and_collaborative.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Decentralized disaster governance has been gaining much attention with the rising global urbanization rate and the complex nature of the disasters occurring in densely urbanized areas today. This paper studies the case of South Korea, a highly urbanized country with relatively recent decentralizatio...