Susanna B. Hecht is professor in the Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles. Kathleen D. Morrison is the Neukom Family Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College at the University of Chicago. Christine Padoch is the Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator of Economic Botany in the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden and the director of the Forests and Livelihoods Programme at the Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia.