Managing a global resource : an overview / Uma Lele -- Costa Rica : at the cutting edge / Ronnie de Camino V., Olman Segura B., and Lauren A. Kelly -- China : the world's largest experiment in conservation and development / Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang, and Uma Lele -- India's forests : potential for poverty alleviation / Nalini Kumar and Naresh Chandra Saxena -- A new deal for Cameroon's forests? / B. Essama-Nssah, James Gockowski, and Lauren A. Kelly -- Forest management in Indonesia : moving from autocratic regime to decentralized democracy / Madhur Gautam, Hariadi Kartodihardjo, and Uma Lele -- Brazil's forests : managing tradeoffs among local, national, and international interests / Uma Lele, Virgilio Viana, and Adalberto Verissimo -- The way ahead / Uma Lele