A riveting study of the booming rosewood trade between China and Madagascar uncovers an alternative approach to environmentalism that disrupts Western models. Rosewood is the worldβs most trafficked endangered species by value, accounting for larger outlays than ivory, rhino horn, and big cats pu
National Currencies and Globalization: Endangered Specie?
β Scribed by Paul Bowles
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 224
- Series
- Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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