Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Three Puzzles
- 2 The Problem of Resource Booms
- 3 Explaining Institutional Breakdown
- 4 The Philippines: The Legal Slaughter of the Forests
- 5 Sabah, Malaysia: A New State of Affairs
- 6 Sarawak, Malaysia: An Almost Uncontrollable Instinct
- 7 Indonesia: Putting the Forests to “Better Use”
- 8 Conclusion: Rent Seeking and Rent Seizing
- Appendix: Chronologies of Events
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Three Puzzles
- 2 The Problem of Resource Booms
- 3 Explaining Institutional Breakdown
- 4 The Philippines: The Legal Slaughter of the Forests
- 5 Sabah, Malaysia: A New State of Affairs
- 6 Sarawak, Malaysia: An Almost Uncontrollable Instinct
- 7 Indonesia: Putting the Forests to “Better Use”
- 8 Conclusion: Rent Seeking and Rent Seizing
- Appendix: Chronologies of Events
- References
- Index
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- Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia , pp. 229 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001