| Description |
313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"Money Logging investigates what Gordon Brown has called "probably the biggest environmental crime of our times"--the 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 family--with the complicity of global financial institutions have profited to the tune of 15 billion US dollars. Money Logging is a story of a people who have lost their ancient paradise to a wasteland of oil palm plantations, pollution, and corruption and how they hope to take it back"--Page 4 of cover |
| Notes |
Translation of: Raubzug auf den Regenwald : Auf den Spuren der malaysischen Holzmafia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-299) and index |
| Notes |
Originally published in German Zurich, Switzerland : Alis Verlag, 2014 |
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English translation of: Raubzug auf den Regenwald : Auf den Spuren der malaysischen Holzmafia |
| Subject |
Deforestation -- Malaysia -- Sarawak.
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Forest products industry -- Malaysia -- Sarawak.
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Logging -- Corrupt practices -- Malaysia -- Sarawak.
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Lumber trade -- Corrupt practices -- Malaysia.
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Lumber trade -- Corrupt practices -- Malaysia -- Sarawak.
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Penan (Bornean people) -- Social conditions.
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Political corruption -- Malaysia -- Sarawak.
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| LC no. |
2015445040 2014330644 |
| ISBN |
9783905252682 |
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