Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia - Couverture souple

Straumann, Lukas

 
9783905252682: Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3905252686 ISBN 13 : 9783905252682
Editeur : Bergli Books Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

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 Malay--sian state of Sarawak, as the kingpin of this Asian timber mafia. Taib's 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.

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Éditeur
Bergli Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3905252686
ISBN 13 
9783905252682
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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