Lebel, L., A. Contreras, S. Pasong, and P. Garden. 2004. Nobody knows best: Alternative perspectives on forest management and governance in Southeast Asia. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 4:111-127.

2.3.3.5 ANALYSIS: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, PROCESSES - Governance, Power and Equity - Governance, power, and equity For many analysts, the institutions of governance, the interventions they employ, and the knowledge systems that support these choices reflect sources and differences in power and equity. This is in contrast to prevailing assumptions of efficiency, improved technology, and rational decision-making guiding sustainability actions. The Reading illustrates these different degrees of power and equity as the contrasting perspectives of state, markets, international environmental groups, and local resource users, in the governance of tropical forest management.

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