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Straumann Lukas |
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Titolo |
Money logging : on the trail of the Asian timber mafia / / by Lukas Straumann ; cover design Christoph Lanz ; illustrations Daniela Trunk |
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Basel, Switzerland : , : Bergli Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (405 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Forest products industry - Malaysia - Sarawak |
Political corruption - Malaysia - Sarawak |
Deforestation - Malaysia - Sarawak |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Table of contents; Dedication; Foreword by Mutang Urud; 01 Follow the money; 02 Paradise lost; 03 The white Rajahs; 04 Sarawak's Machiavelli; 05 Blowpipes against bulldozers; 06 Bruno Manser's legacy; 07 Offshore business; 08 Trail of destruction; 09 Green wasteland; 10 Rainforests without corruption; Endnotes; Sarawak chronology; Acknowledgements; Photo credits; Index |
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Money Logging investigates what Gordon Brown has called ìprobably the biggest environmental crime of our timesîóthe massive destruction of the Borneo rainforest by Malaysian loggers. Historian and campaigner Lukas Straumann goes in search not only of the lost forests and the people who used to call them home, but also the network of criminals who have earned billions through illegal timber sales and corruption. Straumann singles out Abdul Taib Mahmud, current governor of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, as the kingpin of this Asian timber mafia, while he shows that Taibís familyówith the compli |
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