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Popular Dissemination | 2021

Podcast: Building State Capacity? Anti-Corruption and Illegal Logging in the Peruvian Amazon

David Aled Williams, Camila Gianella, Julia Urrunaga. (2021)
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https://soundcloud.com/user-571595539/building-state-capacity-anti-corruption-and-illegal-logging-in-the-peruvian-amazon

Peru has legal frameworks and institutions in place to tackle illegal logging. Despite these measures, deforestation is rampant. Last year alone more than 155 000 hectares of forest disappeared. Why aren’t the authorities succeeding?

Read more:
https://soundcloud.com/user-571595539/building-state-capacity-anti-corruption-and-illegal-logging-in-the-peruvian-amazon

David Aled Williams

Principal Adviser (U4) and Senior Researcher (CMI)
  • aled.williams@cmi.no
  • +47 90778807

Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC)

Aug 2018 - Mar 2023
  • Corruption
  • Climate and Natural Resources
  • Peru
  • Illegal logging
  • Corruption
  • Environmental protection
  • Law enforcement
  • Investigative journalism.

Also from this project:

Journal Article | May 2026

The Political Ecology of Resource Corruption: Co-constituting Legality and Territoriality at the Frontier  

David Aled Williams, Achiba Andrew Gargule

Political Geography

Journal Article | 2025

Hijacking legality: Corruption and property creation in Brazil's frontiers

Joachim S. Stassart, Flavia Mendes de Almeida Collaço, Dario Cardoso Jr., Renato Morgado

Political Geography

See also:

CMI Brief | Sep 2026

Paying for Inalienable Land? Compensation, Public Finance, and the Safeguarding of Indigenous Land Rights in Brazil

Ana Carolina Alfinito, Maurício Torres

Blog post | Sep 2026

European audiences do not need an overly positive story about anti-corruption in Ukraine. They just need a balanced one

David Jackson

Blog post | Sep 2026

Four scenarios for Ukraine’s anti-corruption future

David Jackson

Blog post | Sep 2026

Rethinking the politics of anti-corruption in Ukraine – from sandwich to kite

David Jackson

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